Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustrated images and decorative text with business name and text reading: "Steer Cattle a Specialty" in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston. Letterhead contains names D. M. O'Connor; T. M. O'Connor.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration and stylized text with business name.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains illustration of bank building and stylized text of business name, with text reading: "Collections promptly made on all points in the State," in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains illustration of bank building and stylized text of business name, with text reading: "Collections promptly made on all points in the State," in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts.

Daily newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in methods of and apparatus for tanning hides, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.

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

Patent for a stalk-breaker that breaks "the stalks into small pieces and which will be under the control of the driver so as to be thrown in and out of gear at will, and in which the breaker mechanism will be so constructed that it will give when an unyielding substance is run against, thereby preventing breakage or damage to the machine" (lines 13-20).

Patent for improvements in medical compounds: "provide a new and useful preparation for the treatment and cure of kidney and bladder affections" (lines 9-11).

Patent for a new and improved stirrup. This design relates "particularly to a new and improved stirrup iron or body, whereby a stirrup of extraordinary strength and lightness is produced, and also one that is ornamental and avoids the discomfort of metallic stirrups now in common use" (lines 8-13).

Patent for improvements in hay-presses by simplify and increase the efficiency of the power head, so that it is capable of baling more hay in a given time. Illustration is included.

Patent for a hay press that is meant to "check the rebound of the plunger so that the working beam or lever will not be thrown against the horse; also to provide for automatically applying a brake for the purpose of checking the rebound; also to provide for cushioning the rebound of the plunger so as to prevent or check its tendency to throw the toggle elver against the main lever; also to provide for automatically giving a signal or alarm to indicate when a bale of a given size has been compressed; also to improve the construction of the tie box portion of the press; also to generally improve the construction of parts" (lines 17-30).

Patent for an improved coupler, the object of the invention being to provide an improved means for elevating, holding, and releasing the coupling-pin, and also to provide a vertically-adjustable drawhead, which bae readily adjusted either during coupling or before or after.

Patent for an improved mosquito canopy frame using two different forms of locks and metal loops with screws or nails to increase the strength of the parts which “insure easy attachment and detachments of parts and at the same time preserve a close joint” (line 100-102), includes illustration.

Cadastral map of Victoria County, Texas in the Gulf Coast region. Some boundaries and features are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).