Personal recollections of Estelle Adams about the history of the Wheelock Colored School in Wheelock, Texas, during the thirty years before the school was integrated in 1957.

Patent for railroad joint designed to reduce the shifting of the rails while being easy to construct.

Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a new and improved ring for games. This design is "part of a game apparatus, a ring of wood of a form adapted to be rolled over a flat surface, having a ring of metal cast in a groove cut in its inner surface" (lines 57-60).

Patent for improvement to a ginning point that provides support and holds points in position for cotton gin cylinder section.

Patent for cotton press. This invention "is the production of a press adapted for baling cotton and other materials in cylindrical bales in which the material forming the bales is compactly arranged under heavy pressure in superimposed spiral layers or laps" (line 10-15). Illustrations inlcuded.

Weekly newspaper from Calvert, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Calvert, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.

Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive fence-stay that "may be readily applied in a secure manner to horizontal fence-wires" (lines 12-13). The posts are sheets of metal, and metal T-shaped tongues hold the wires in place.

Patent for a wire clamp.

Interview with Estelle Adams discussing her life growing up in Wheelock, Texas as well as her grandparents who left Georgia and other extended family members. She also talks about her experiences teaching in various Texas towns, including a segregated school in Bryan, Texas and being transferred to a school in Dallas, Texas during integration.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about governor Dolph Briscoe who authorized the use of Texas national guard to help control an outbreak of highly contagious Anthrax disease found in eight North Central Texas counties.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas animal health commission which announced that the entire supply of Anthrax vaccine is being funneled into central Texas cattle country.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about with July 4th which is just a few days away.

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.

Funeral program for Mrs. Mary Washington, born March 21, 1943 and died July 26, 1975. The funeral was held July 30, 1975 at Second Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. C. W. Black, Jr. Funeral arrangements were made through Collins Funeral Home, and she was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Hearne, Texas.