Patent for a "music case or holder for carrying, protecting, and using sheet-music, and is so constructed that by its use the music is not rolled nor creased, is held in place, and it is not necessary to take the music from the case when it is to be used." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Photograph of a busy street lined with storefronts. The road is crowded with numerous wagons and horses and people. The caption on the image reads. "Xmas Day in Midland."

Photograph of "5 [Wells] [Cow]boys," pictured together in two rows in the grass and facing forward. Several people are identified by name: 1, Andrew Allen, standing first from left; 2, Timberline, seated first from left; 3, Wild Bill seated second from left; 4, Doc Sears, standing second from left; 5, Jim Darling, seated third from left; 6, Jim Smith, standing third from left; 7, Tom Hudspeth, seated fourth from left; 8, Henry Williams, standing fourth from left; 9, Elmer Greenled, seated fourth from right; 10, Top Herd, standing third from right; 11, Jim Herrell, seated third from right; 12, T. O. Midkiff, standing second from right; 13, Ben Boydston, seated second from right; 14, John Deering, seated first from right; 15, standing first from right.

Photograph of the first section house built in Germania, Midland County, for Texas and Pacific railway workers. The section house sits behind the railway, and is a narrow two-story wooden frame building with a gable roof and a picket fence next to the railway. Workers stand on the railway, a handcar on the rails, a child playing with a shovel next to the rails, and several women standing behind, nearer to the picket fence.