Two photographs taken in Port Arthur, Texas. The top photo shows a farm house and a water tower. The bottom photo shows several boats on a river, with a building in the background.

Photograph of a group of men standing at the edge of water, for the completion of the Port Arthur Canal. One man is waving an American flag over the water, and a boat can be seen in the distance.

Map of Jefferson County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with means for locking said legs in a vertical position" (lines 23-30).

Patent for improvements in a machine that hauls logs and loads them on railways, based on a patent application submitted by the inventor previously (serial no. 563,242). A swinging crane loads and unloads the logs.

Patent for a log-carrier with an improved construction from a previous patent (No. 539,380). Improvements include a change in "the angle of strain of the draft-chain as the lever approaches the horizontal position...when the load is elevated" (lines 34-37). It also maintains "a uniform leverage without the use of guide-rollers or other means" (lines 54-56), and balances the sliding tongue so that "the team is relieved of the weight thereof" (line 62).

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of county name with designs, and depicts the county courthouse in lithographic print by M. F. Dunn & Bro. N. C.. Letterhead includes the names Ed. P. Gray, County Judge; Lee Blanchette, Co. & Dist. Clerk; Thos. H. Langham, Sheriff & Tax Collector; G. W. Kidd, County Treasurer; S. W. Pipkin, Tax Assessor; L. F. Daniell, County Surveyor; D. P. Wheat, County Attorney; W. L. Rigsby, J. P. Precinct No. 1; County Commissioners J. M. Eastham, Precinct No. 1; W. C. Jackson, Precinct No. 2; B. J. Johnson, Precinct No. 3; Edgar Caruthers, Precinct No. 4.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustration of business and business name, with text reading: "Rates $1.00 Per Day, Meals 25 cts." Letterhead contains G. M. Goale, Proprietor.