Advertisement for a baseball game between the Prison All stars (a team selected from the best players of the Texas Prison system) and Southern Select (All Mexican team of Houston) at the Prison Stadium in Huntsville, Texas on Sunday, August 9, 1942. Entertainment by Prison Military Band. The game starts at 2:00 p.m. General admission is 25 cents (federal tax included). At head of poster, "Double-Header".

Patent for improvements in book support: "book are held in an upright position on the shelves" (lines 9-10).

From one o’clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o’clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas’s Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. Using his connections to smuggle guns and ammunition into the prison, and employing the aid of two other inmates, he took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage in the prison library. Demanding bulletproof helmets and vests, he planned to use the hostages as shields for his escape. Negotiations began immediately with prison warden H. H. Husbands and W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director of the Texas Department of Corrections. The Texas Rangers, the Department of Public Safety, and the FBI arrived to assist as the media descended on Huntsville. When one of the hostages suggested a moving structure of chalkboards padded with law books to absorb bullets, Carrasco agreed to the plan. The captors entered their escape pod with four hostages and secured eight others to …

Two signed copies of a surveyor's note to a very small section of land, leased from C. C. and Ruth Cox to C. H. and C. W. Stadtler beginning in 1919 in Montgomery County, Texas.

Card advertising Huntsville State Park with brief descriptive information and a summary of activities, facilities, and other features of the location.

Patent for improved earth scrapers, the class of which are " mounted on Wheel and provided with slatted carriers" (pg 1). This earth scraper has a novel system that allows the machine to be turned around and still used where other machines cannot do so (pg 1).

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

Letter from J. W. C. Davidson to David C. Dickson with Davidson applying for work as a bookkeeper at the penitentiary in Huntsville.

Letter from Pat Bullock to James Hutson informing him that he is eligible for parole consideration under the one-third provision of the Adult Probation and Parole Law.

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

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas state penitentiary officials who are considering a proposal by convict Fred Gomez Carrasco.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two San Antonio brothers who have been charged with aiding and abetting, Fred Gomez Carrasco in his fatal attempt to escape the state prison at Huntsville night.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about governor Dolph Briscoe who said that he feels Texas corrections director W. J. Estelle did everything humanly possible to protect the lives of hostages held by Fred Gómez Carrasco and two accomplices at the state prison in Huntsville.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas board of corrections which voted unanimous endorsement of the techniques used by prison officials in preventing a prison escape at Huntsville.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about governor Dolph Briscoe who made a tour of Huntsville state prison in the wake of the week- end shoot out that climaxed an 11 day siege by 3 reveling inmates.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about governor Dolph Briscoe who said that considering the safety of the state as a whole, Texas prison system director W. J. Estelle did everything humanly possible to protect the lives of the hostages held by the convicts during the Huntsville siege.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two San Antonio brothers who were charged with aiding and abetting the fatal escape attempt of Fred Gomez Carrasco from state prison.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about under gloomy skies in San Antonio where body of Fred Gomez Carrasco was laid to rest during unannounced funeral services.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about funeral services which were held in Huntsville for the two women hostages slain by the inmates.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about grand jury which announced that it will be convened to hear the case of Ignacio Cuevas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the third time which apparently was a charm for 25 years old David Meyers who had been serving a prison sentence for burglary.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about prison director W. J. Estelle who said that there will be some immediate changes at the prison but also said that it is too early to determine exactly what they will include.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas department of public safety which said that Texas Ranger captain Pete Rogers will head an investigation to determine how guns and ammunition were smuggled into inmate Fred Carrasco at the state prison in Huntsville.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a convict who held three inmates hostage at the hays county jail for two hours is now in the Huntsville state prison.