[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - March 4, 1885] (open access)

[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - March 4, 1885]

Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley, dated March 4, 1885, in which she writes about the health of their children.
Date: March 4, 1885
Creator: Bradley, Minnie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - March 6, 1885] (open access)

[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - March 6, 1885]

Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley, dated March 6, 1885, and sent from Fairfield, in which she writes about her and their children's health, her garden, and some family business.
Date: March 6, 1885
Creator: Bradley, Minnie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from L. L. Peck to Annie Bradley - March 25, 1883] (open access)

[Letter from L. L. Peck to Annie Bradley - March 25, 1883]

Letter from L. L. Peck, Attorney at Law, to Annie Bradley, dated March 25, 1883, in which he writes to ask if he may accompany her to church.
Date: March 25, 1883
Creator: Peck, L. L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - March 9, 1885] (open access)

[Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley - March 9, 1885]

Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley, dated March 9, 1885, and sent from Fairfield, in which she writes about their children's health, a vote in favor of prohibition, and several family members traveling to Mexia.
Date: March 9, 1885
Creator: Bradley, Minnie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvesting Sack Supporter. (open access)

Harvesting Sack Supporter.

Patent for a new and improved harvesting-sack supporter. This design "relates to improvements in supporting devices for harvesting-sacks, being especially adapted for use in corn-pulling, and by cotton-pickers, and its objects are to provide means whereby the sack may be so attached to the picker that its weight will be distributed proportionately over the body of the wearer, and will not strain and tire the back of the person bearing the same" (lines 16-24).
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Poteet, James Elias
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design has for its object "to render the points or shovels laterally adjustable with relation to each other and the plow-beam and to render the side rows of points or shovels reversible in position on the plow-beam" (lines 19-23).
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Kirven, Peter E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the coupling-box or draw-head and spring-pin, of the block, spring, and plate, united together as described, the plate being of suitable size to enter the bore of the draw-head" (lines 4-8).
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Veteto, George M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Freestone County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Freestone County, Texas. The center of Freestone County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 1888
Creator: Blau, F. G.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History