Patent for "a cheap and simple machine adapted to chop or hoe cotton and simultaneously plow or hill the same; furthermore, to adapt the chopper to form stands composed of any number of plants and at any distance apart, and, finally, to provide means for raising and lowering the plows out of and into operative position and throwing the chopping mechanism into and out of gear, which means are controlled in a convenient manner by the driver or operator" (lines 10-20).

Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "is to provide an engine or apparatus . . . in pumps of that class known as "force-pumps" . . . which is simple and durable in construction, and which is of large working capacity. . . . [The design] attain[s] the purposes of [the] invention by . . . the pump-buckets or caging and that part of the delivering-pipe containing the . . . valves in the plungers . . . [and] the ball-valves" (lines 9-28).

Copy of transcript for minutes from a public meeting.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin, on March 19, 1826, discussing the resolution of the conflict between the Comanche Indians and the Tahuacanos, as well as the movements of militia troops. He goes on to discuss the other tribes they have been having trouble with.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin to a friend describing conditions in Texas. Letter translated into English from Spanish by W. W. Robinson.

Copy negative of an 1868 portrait of Elizabeth Louisa Pleasant Powell.

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

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

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

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

Patent for agricultural devices and more particularly to a device to be attached to a cultivator for catching boll weevil or the like, during the cultivation of cotton.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about according to police the blaze broke out shortly before 3 A. M in the Clayton house apartments near the Stephen F. Austin state university campus.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a pre dawn fire in an apartment complex in Nacogdoches in East Texas which has claimed the lives of two youngsters.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two children who died and their father suffered burns when fire swept an apartment complex at Nacogdoches in East Texas.