Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to hook-and-catch couplers for railroad cars; and it consists in making one which will automatically drop by turning in the quadrant of a circle as soon as the draw-heads of two cars strike together" (lines 15-19).

Photograph of a man standing by a fence near a tombstone in La Plata, TX in 1896. The photograph is displayed in the Deaf Smith County Museum.

Photograph of the home of D. R. Gass in Hereford, Texas, around 1890. A man and woman stand on the porch.

Photograph of the home of Dr. Gass in Hereford, Texas. A man, and a woman holding a baby, stand on the porch.

Photograph of the County Courthouse at La Plata in 1892. Several people stand outside the courthouse, and a wagon is visible in the background.

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Deaf Smith County, Texas. The center of Deaf Smith County is marked on map. The edge of the Staked Plains and the Capitol Land Reservation are also marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with text reading: "Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Ranch and Trail Supplies"; "Dry Goods, Gents Furnishing Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Farm Mach'y."; "Agents for Studerbaker Wagons and Buggies, Bellville Stoves, etc., etc." "Real Estate"; "Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Wool"; "At Amarillo, Texas, We Are Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Barb Wire, Wind Mills, Implements and Machinery of All Kinds, Buggies, Wagons, Stoves and Grain." Letterhead contains the names W. J. DeBardeleben; C. T. Hunter.