Photograph of the Coryell County, Texas, officers of 1908. Three rows of the men sit on the steps of the Coryell County courthouse. The men are identified from the top left as Pleas Post (collector), W. L. Carlyle (commissioner), J. O. Curry (commissioner), T. L. Allison (commissioner), J. P. Gardner (commissioner), G. E. Johnson (county attorney), Frank Parsons (janitor), W. W. Seeton (district clerk), Sam Davis (sheriff), R. T. Wilson (county clerk), Earl Stone (city marshal), John Caufield (county surveyor), R. E. West (county judge), Ben McClinton (deputy clerk), J. R. Saunders (county treasurer), illegible (county superintendent), Jim Shows (tax assessor), and Joe B. Watkins (justice of the peace).

Patent for attachment for cultivators that consist of new improvements that allow for cultivator-beams to spread apart and draw together with the attachment. This attachment can be affixed while the cultivator is in use.

Patent for weaning young animals and or prevent cows or such from sucking or milking themselves.

Patent for an improved bottle closure.

Patent for new and improved bridle-bits, including illustrations.

Patent for improved chicken coop with simplified construction and modified features.

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.

Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.

Patent for a cotton chopping machine. This invention is used to thin cotton plants with revolving blades that cut and destroy plants. Illustrations included.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Ditchers" (lines 5-6).

Photograph of members of the Freeman family standing in front of their wooden home in Purmela, Texas. They are identified from the left as Alvin (age six), Louis (age eight), Way (age four), Alex, Thoyce (age two), Winnie, Lillian (age ten), and Vivian (age eleven). A windpump is visible in the background to the right. The reverse side of the mat has a note that says "To Dred & Emma."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000

Patent for hub attaching device. "This invention relates to means applied to ordinary vehicle-axles for preventing wear upon the same, a false wearing-surface being provided, which may be renewed when necessary, either on account of wear or for any other reason"(lines 11-16)

Cabinet card of the "Hudlin Gang", with 11 members sitting in three rows. Members in the photograph are numbered with pencil, with a reference at the back. From left to right, top row: G. W. Buchanan (11), Walter Smith (7), Sam Hodge (6), and Edger Brown (1). Middle row: "a North Carolina boy" (10), Archie Clay (8), Alen Beadle (5), and J. K. Peavary-Long? (3). Bottom row: Emmitte Smith (9), Hershul Willis (4), George Brewar (2).