Map of Cooke County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).

Patent for to improve the construction of the shingle-machine known as the "Evarts Rotary Twelve-Block Shingle-Machine".

Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.

Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.

Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.

Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.

Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.

Patent for the improvement of watchmakers' lathes by way of an adjustable bed.

Newspaper clipping on Ulysses S. Grant, written by Marie Le Baron, describing the President's characteristics and how his nature shaped his actions in office.

Receipt from S.B. White to Levi Perryman for $10.65 in costs in 3 suits: Wheeler & Wilson co. vs. William Freeman, Thomas Bailey vs. William Freeman, W.C. Carter vs. William Freeman.

A deposit warrant for Levi Perryman, sheriff of Montague County, Texas, is for $369.00 and dated March 11, 1876.

A letter to Mary Moore from her sister, Bettie Franklin, and her mother, Matilda Dodd. In the letter, Franklin tells Moore about the birth of her son. She tells Moore that she has not yet named the child and asks Moore to suggest a name. Dodd and Franklin both discuss the weather and the state of the farm. Franklin closes by sending her regards to Moore's husband, Charles B. Moore. In a separate letter from Moore's father, William Dodd, William talks about the weather and the state of the family and the farm. He tells Moore that he will send her care money soon. Included with this item is the envelope in which the letter was mailed. The envelope, postmarked March 13 from Gallatin, Tennessee, is addressed to Mrs. Mary A. Moore in Mckinney, Collin County, Texas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.