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Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to hook-and-catch couplers for railroad cars; and it consists in making one which will automatically drop by turning in the quadrant of a circle as soon as the draw-heads of two cars strike together" (lines 15-19).
Date: January 21, 1890
Creator: Shelburn, Cephas C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hereford Homes of Early Years]

Photograph of the home of D. R. Gass in Hereford, Texas, around 1890. A man and woman stand on the porch.
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hereford Homes of Early Years]

Photograph of the home of Dr. Gass in Hereford, Texas. A man, and a woman holding a baby, stand on the porch.
Date: 1890~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History