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Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Gillespie, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Martin, David D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landon Hotel (open access)

Landon Hotel

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs and business name with text reading: "Special Attention Given to Traveling Men"; "European Plan."
Date: 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
R. W. Hoskins, Live Stock Dealer (open access)

R. W. Hoskins, Live Stock Dealer

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes detailed illustration of livestock with business name.
Date: 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History