Carriage Wheel. (open access)

Carriage Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved carriage wheel. This design "consists in so constructing a carriage-wheel that the members thereof may be made interchangeable, and the whole may be made in a factory and shipped thence 'knocked down,' to be assembled and put together at any point to which the same may be shipped, not requiring, as is usual, the aid of a blacksmith or other skilled laborer" (lines 8-15).
Date: November 8, 1881
Creator: Clarke, George R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brackett News. (Brackett (Fort Clark), Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1899 (open access)

The Brackett News. (Brackett (Fort Clark), Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Brackett (Fort Clark), Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 11, 1899
Creator: Kartes, Charles
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Herbert Gambrell to Harris Leon Kempner, November 17, 1960] (open access)

[Letter from Herbert Gambrell to Harris Leon Kempner, November 17, 1960]

Letter from Herbert Gambrell to Harris Leon Kempner notifying of his election to membership in the Philosophical Society of Texas and in the hopes that he'll accept it. Then he gives more information on the annual meeting that'll be held in Fort Clark, December 9, 10, 11. So he requests him to let him know if he's accepting and mentions about the fees.
Date: November 17, 1960
Creator: Gambrell, Herbert
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History