Photograph of the Stafford Opera House (located at Southeast corner of Milam and Springs Streets) in Columbus, Texas.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weimar in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weimar in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Columbus in Colorado County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, an d easily manipulated, and by means of which the teeth of gin-saws may be sharpened in a rapid, convenient, and effectual manner" (lines 9-14).

Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.

Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seed cotton distributers and cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration and decorative designs with business name in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston. Letterhead contains names Mrs. R. E. Stafford; E. J. Sandmeyer; Irene Pryor, Cashier.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and county name, with the names of County Officers J. J. Mansfield, County Judge; J. J. Harrison, County Clerk; Lee C. Ayars, District Clerk; A. A. Gregory, County Attorney; Sam H. Reese, Sheriff; W. E. Bridge, Tax Collector; H. R. Byars, Tax Assessor; Jos. Burttschell, County Treas.; Commissioners J. H. Schoellmann, Precinct No. 1; W. A. Van Alstyne, Precinct No. 2; John Hastedt, Precinct No. 3; J. P. Anderson, Precinct No. 4.

Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.