Parent map for McLennan County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.

Parent map for McLennan County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.

Index map for McLennan County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:122,820.

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote his wife to inform her that he was almost done with his work in the courts and that he planned to return home soon. An envelope addressed to Mrs. J. P. Osterhout is included.

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote at length regarding an assault case he worked as a judge for, including the verdict for the accused. He ended his letter wishing his wife well.

Parent map for McLennan County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.

Parent map for McLennan County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of assistant superintendent of Gatesville School for Boys has resigned his post at the correctional institution.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Texas Rangers and Highway Patrolmen who were ordered to the Gatesville State School for Boys to help restore order after a disturbance broke out.

Photograph of Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, TX. The courthouse is made of white stone decorated with faded red accents and has windows with brown frames. One entrance to the building faces towards the right edge of the photo and had a short set of stairs that lead up to three white arches, their tops outlined in red. The arches stick out from the building, as does the pediment attached to the edge of the building's roof, supported by tall red columns and containing a red star motif inside its pediment. The columns' height spans two levels of the building. The expanse of wall behind and on either side of the columns and the arched entrance below them is juts out from the building, as does the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo. This creates the appearance of towers at each corner of the courthouse, each one topped with a red dome and a white carved shape. The bottom row of windows spanning the perimeter of the courthouse have curved tops with red curving lines above them, except for rectangular windows in-between the corner towers. The second row of windows are all rectangular with horizontal …

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story at the Gatesville State School for Boys, where 88 inmates are still reported at large following a mass escape over the weekend and a demonstration.

Patent for a lard press, which is easy to use and inexpensive to make.

Patent for a new and improved shot case. This design "is to draw given quantities of shot from the case without the necessity of weighing each draft. To this end the invention consists in a case, means for hanging the same, and a charger" (lines 12-16).

Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.

Patent for Cotton Harvester

Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).