Car-Coupler. (open access)

Car-Coupler.

Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Williamson, John A., JR.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Site #91 - Church of the Visitation]

Photograph of the Church of the Visitation (Site #91) in Texas.
Date: April 5, 1993
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History