Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name and text reading: "Manufacturers of Wykes' Climax Oil, Montgomery's Chill Tonic, Montgomery's Cathartic & Liver Pills, Montgomery's Ginger Tonic New Microbe Remedy." Letterhead includes the names T. E. Montgomery, President; J. W. Wykes, Sec'y and Treas.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustration of business and stylized text with business name and text reading: "Wholesale Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes and Groceries. Wool and Cotton Factors." Letterhead contains the names Wm. Ginnuth, President; Geo. T. Malone, Vice-Pres. and Eastern Agt.

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

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

Patent for a broadcast seeder designed to "cultivate, plant, and subsequently roll or cover the seed, the elements for accomplishing the same being combined in a single device simply constructed" (lines 10-13).

Patent for an improvement in animal shears to "simplify and improve the construction of animal-shears, and render their operation more positive and reliable" (lines 11-13).

Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design consists in "mechanism for imparting a combined reciprocating and edgewise play to the cutting knife or knives in order to cause the teeth of said knife or knives to follow or describe a curved or oval path, and thus insure greater efficiency of operation; to provide for the proper lateral contact of the knives in order to insure their proper action and to regulate the pressure or force with which one knife bears on the other; [and] to provide a peculiar form of cutter-teeth which shall be automatic or self-cleaning" (lines 19-30).