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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.

Patent for a device that stretches wire, specifically for fence construction.

Patent for "improvements in windmills." (lines 8-9) specifically a vertical windmill and includes five figures and an explanation of the device.

Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.

Patent for a shaft bearing designed to regulate and maintain the density of the cotton seed rolls in linting machines. Illustrations included.

Patent for a mechanical movement. This invention is intended to producing more power. Illustration included.

Patent for improvement in stew-pan by using a large size of stew-pan which having three separate compartments with different dimensions, to allow for large quantities of cooking materials to cook at one time without using separate cooking utensils. The heater designed to have fire-box in the front and at the rear, and the top portion of the heater being almost completely open. The elongated stew-pan placed on top of the open fire acted as a closure for the open top of the heater when food is being cooked. Illustration is included.

Patent for a method of making concrete tombstones which are waterproof and don't require wetting during the drying process to prevent cracking, reducing the drying time from 30 days in the shade to 4 days in the sun. This is achieved by adding salt to hold water which prevents cracking while drying, and a paint coat of aluminum powder and gasolene to waterproof the concrete and add a shine to it.

Patent for a wagon tongue for horse-drawn wagons that is equipped with a spring triggered device that can be used to put the whole draft of the wagon on the horses bits to stop them if they are running away.

Patent for a harrow attachment. Illustration included.

Patent for anchors, flukes and braces attached to the end of a fence post, pole, or similar that will shore and hold the post in the desired vertical position for installation.

Patent for a cutter head and bit. This invention are a combination of parts for use in woodworking. Illustration included.

Program from a senior class piano recital from the Westminster Institute. The recital date was scheduled as Tuesday Evening, 7:30 P.M., December 19, 1905.

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Jerome Loper, accused of murder of Dee Allen, filed November 25, 1909. Documents include two charges, a transcript of records, handwritten letters, a telegraph, motions, judgements, a plea to the jurisdiction, applications, special charges, a letter signed by the sheriff of Wood County, a testament, a defendants bill of exceptions, a copy of special venire, special venires, applications for subpoenas, a bond, witness attachments, and a subpoena.

Document related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Bass Cook, accused of disturbing the peace, filed January 24, 1906. Document is a complaint. There are some drawings on one back panel of the document.

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Bonner Merchant, accused of "giving away whiskey in (an) election precinct," filed October 3, 1906. Documents are an arrest warrant and an appearance bond for Bonner Merchant, a witness subpoena, and a transcript of order from the Henderson County District Court.

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Tam Pascal, accused of burglary and theft, filed September 7, 1909. Documents are an arrest warrant and complaint filed against Tam Pascal. According to the complaint, Pascal broke into a store owned by Francis (?) Killingsworth in the town of Munchison, Texas.