Patent for a planter. Illustration included.

Photograph of the interior of the White House Cafe in Floresville, Texas. Several tables and chairs are set up to the right of the counter and stairs, and a sign leading to the wash room is visible in the background.

Photograph of white frame building sign that says, "Photographer".

Patent for a sulky plow for three horses, which stops the plow pole from rubbing the middle horse.

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.

Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Wilson County, Texas.

Patent for a new self-filling fountain pen with a locking device, designed "to provide a fountain pen by which in use of a piston rod on the principle of a suction pump the pen can be easily, fully and securely filled and easily cleaned, and which being provided with detachable parts may be prepared readily when worn or broken" (lines 10-15), which includes illustrations and instructions.

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

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

Photograph of students in front of school house. The card held by the boy in the middle of the front row says; Floresville, Texas. The boy's name is Haywood McDaniel. The boy who is third from the right in the first row is Charlie Culpepper. The teacher on the top row, far left, is Miss Myrtle Hurley (Mrs. Ed Franklin).

This is a photograph of a hanging picture of downtown Floresville during the 1906 Trade Days. This photo shows the buildings, people, horses, wagon. On the back of the photograph it is noted that Mrs. Ed Franklin was queen and Rosalie Stevenson and Maude Neal were the princesses. R.R. Smith, attorney, crowned the queen for the festivities.

Patent for cotton cleaning and condensing machine. "This invention relates to cotton cleaning and condensing machinery; and it has for its object to proved simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive machine for cleaning the cotton fiber and forming it into a bat as it leaves the gin in preparation for the baling press" (9-15). Illustration included.

Patent for a buggy wrench. Illustration included.

Patent for a seed planter. This invention is designed to plant seed in hills at any desired predetermined distance apart.

Patent for injector burner that provides rapid vaporization by maximum heating the walls of oil chamber and also has improved nozzle with oil outlet pipe. It has a detachable burner nozzle and maximum spread of flame is given by the burner-tip.

Patent for hose couplings which "may be very quickly and effectively placed in engagement with and held upon the nozzle of a hydrant, thus making the device very available for fire-hose" (lines 10-14).

Patent for improvement in process of baling cotton is to “heat the cotton-bat at a point between the gin-condenser and the pressing-rollers, exposing the heated bat while incompact to the action of dry air, then compress the cotton-bat into bale form.” (Page 2, lines 39-43) Illustration is included.

Patent for roller-presses that form cylindrical bales from cotton-bat delivered from the gin-condenser to the press. The invention is meant to make the structure more compact and lighter, with greater strength and capacity; to relieve friction; to automatically change pressure as the bale increases; to form the bale without a core; and to improve various aspects of completing the bales.

Photograph of baby James Hunten McDaniel wearing a large white garment and sitting in a chair with a blanket over it.

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

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

Photograph of blacksmith shop. Men and boys are standing under sign the left front of the shop that says "J.A. Varnon & Son". Horses drawing buggies are parked in front of the shop. The tower of the Wilson County Court House can be seen in the background.

Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to enable the slack of a wire to be readily taken up at a point between the posts and capable of enabling a wire to be readily stretched to the desired tension" (lines 12-17).

Photograph of white, two-story, brick building with trees in foreground and water tower and trees in background.