Patent for a new and improved car coupler, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a steam-powered device for cleaning seed-cotton. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.

This is a receipt from the Office of Collector of Taxes for Montague County to Levi Perryman, to acknowledge payment received for county and state real estate taxes for the year 1896.

Receipt acknowledging payment for city taxes from Levi Perryman.

This is a receipt acknowledging payment of taxes for Levi Perryman in the city of Montague. The back of the document has various numbers written down.

Map shows land parcels, patents, landowners, land ownership, and railroads; petroleum prospecting by manuscript annotations. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:66,667].

Bird's eye view of Sunset, Texas, notes the public school, M.E. Church, commercial hotel, and railroad station

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photograph of John & May Reed standing arm in arm. John is wearing a dark color suit and May in a light color dress.

Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher to "attached to the wires direct or have bearing against the post, as stated, but wherein when the device is placed in engagement with the post it need not be secured thereto" (line 22 - 26).

Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design "has for its object to provide a novel, simple, economical, and efficient implement or tool for tightening wire fences by forming twists or loops in the fence-strands to take up the slack, and to provide a novel implement of this type wherein a rod or bar can be conveniently applied to increase the leverage in turning the implement to form the twists or loops" (lines 8-16).

Patent for a wire stretcher and tightener meant for wire fence rails. It is easy and convenient to use, and consists of a lever with a fixed pulley on one end, a rope or chain passes through the pulley, and the rope or chain has hooks attached to its ends.

Patent for a wire twister and tightener for wire fences. With this invention, "the fence-wire is caused to be contracted, twisted, and made taut" (lines 17-18). It is a set of toothed ratchet wheels that have v-shaped slots for the wire. Pawls act on the teeth, and springs and levers move the pawls.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).

Patent for a machine that sharpens and gums saws for cotton-gins. It does so quickly and does not fatigue the operator. It automatically feeds "the saws so as to bring the teeth successively into position to be operated upon, and which will cut the teeth uniformly, thereby preserving the circular outline of the saws and preserving the teeth of a uniform length and appearance" (lines 15-20).