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Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier.
Patent for "a cradle which may be easily and quickly converted into a child's swing or into a clothes rack or drier." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
McMordie, William Emmett
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a tool that combines pincers, a hammer head, jaws, etc., to be used for fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Rubarth, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harry Harris to William McKinley, March 23, 1897]
Letter from Harry Harris to President William McKinley regarding John Patterson Osterhout running for postmaster in Belton, Texas. He endorsed John's run for office and told President McKinley that the appointment would be favorable.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Harris, Harry
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Lee Villa]
Photograph of a young man pictured from the chest up. He wears a dark suit jacket and a white bow tie. The reverse side of the image bears the handwritten initials as "M. V."
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Iron Cottage Studio
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for an improved thill coupling, one meant to "prevent the annoyance of nuts coming off, allowing the thill to come out of place" (lines 55-57). "It is also for the purpose of facilitating the changing of a pair of shafts for a tongue or a tongue for shafts" (lines 59-61).
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Kitching, David C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History