Patent for improvements in construction of racks for displaying dry goods.

Bond describing a debt owed by R. T. Foster J. A. Formwatt to Henry Maxwell in the amount of $1,500 and due by September 1, 1875. Seven blue ten cent stamps and one red five cent stamp are glued to the bottom of the note.

Patent for a new and useful coffee pot, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of grain measurers and registers.

Photograph of the Wright Henderson Duncan House (located at 703 Spring) in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the Wright Henderson Duncan House (located at 703 Spring) in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the Wright Henderson Duncan House (located at 703 Spring) in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the Wright Henderson Duncan House (located at 703 Spring) in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the Wright Henderson Duncan House (located at 703 Spring) in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the Wright Henderson Duncan House (located at 703 Spring) in Granbury, Texas.

Patent for improvements to overshot fishing tools, particularly for the use of removing, fishing out, "tools, parts of tools and other articles from" bored or drilled wells (lines 20-21). These improvements are designed to be manufactured cheaply.

Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks for the year 1882 in the amount of six dollars and forty cents. The original grantee was R.W. Boyce. The document is signed by the collector H.A. McDowell.

Patent for the formula and processing used in tanning hides that is cheaper and more effective.

Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks in the amount of eleven dollars and seventy cents for the year 1887.

Patent for strengthening the nails and their meeting ends.

The second volume of a two part report on the Creataceous aquifers in Texas. This volume contains information on water wells, water levels, and chemical analyses.

Patent for an improved gin saw filer and gummer. This model would yield sharp conical shaped teeth, and straighten bent or deformed teeth.

Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, and in which provision shall be made for the safe-keeping of all the materials and ingredients used in bread-making and in ordinary cooking as well as for pies, cakes, cold victuals and the like" (lines 9-15).

Photograph of the E.A. Hannaford Residence in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the E.A. Hannaford Residence in Granbury, Texas.

Photograph of the Andy Aston Residence (located at 221 East Bridge) in Granbury, Texas.