Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name with text reading: "I. Gigger, Proprietor"; "Comfortable Rooms, Sample Rooms, Ladies' Parlor, Near Depot on Main Street. Station for all Stage & Mail Lines"; "Largest & Best Furnished House in the City."

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes stylized text reading: "All Kinds of Building Material, Lime, Cement, Paints, Oils, Etc."

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains decorative images, stylized text with surveyor name, and text reading: "Bexar District Comprises the Following Counties: Bexar, Crockett, Edwards, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Hemphill, Gray," in lithographic print by Geo. D. Barnard & Co. St. Louis. Letterhead contains the names Will H. Bonnell, L. L. Lacy, Deputies.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes a large illustration of billiard room, decorative designs, and text reading: "Dealers in Fine Liquors, Wines, Domestic and Foreign Cigars. Billiard and Pool Room Near Depot." Letterhead contains the names Lee Harlan; B. F. Gholston.

Patent for "safes which are made burglar and if desired, fire proof without increasing weight and cost ofthe same, reliance for security being placed upon the release or discharge of condensed gases, liquefied or not, and contained within the walls of the safe in such manner as that any attempt to force the safe will break the walls of the containing-chamber and release the fluid, said fluid or gases being of a deadly character, whereby persons or animals are compelled to flee from the vicinity of the safe as soon as the gas permeates the atmosphere, and, if desired, also having the property of extinguishing fires or preventing combustion" (lines 11-25).

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the name of W. H. Parker, Cashier.

Patent for "improved means for effecting the desired movements of the gun, to elevate the latter for discharge, and retract it for loading and concealment" (lines 19-24).

Patent for a rotary reversible steam-engine which is "not easy to get out of order, and the parts of which can be readily removed and replaced when worn or broken" (p. 1).