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Prismoidal (One Rail) Railway System, Adapted for City Streets, Suburban, and General Railroad Traffic

Photograph of a crowd of people on a train. A handwritten note reads "W.W. Knowles, Bastrop, TX, [illegible] at Brenham." A printed note on the back of the photograph reads, "Prismoidal (One Rail) Railway System, Adapted for City Streets, Suburban, and General Railroad Traffic; Practicable by Steam, or Horse power; Elevated or at Grade; Built and equipped at one half the cost of any other plan of equal capacity; Cars impossible to be thrown from track; examination of this system, by engineers and others, is respectfully solicited. I am now prepared to grant Licenses to railway companies and others, to construct and use the Prismoidal railway system., E. Crew, Inventor and Patentee."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Brazos River]

Photograph of the Brazos River. Inscription on the back reads "Taken from bridge just before arriving at Brenham,"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Cars near the Brazos River]

Photograph of a man standing by two cars on the side of the road. A note on the back of the photograph says, "Just before arriving at Brenham - 7/17/13 - Brazos River."
Date: July 17, 1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History