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.

Photograph of Pat Higgins kneeling in Buffel grass that was combined three weeks earlier. Seed heads are already sticking up and some are shattering. TX-47, 348.

Photograph of Pat Higgins, who squats in green buffelgrass and holds up dead grass burrs growing right beside the buffel grass. The grass burrs died due to lack of moisture. TX-49, 350.

Photograph of a four-foot Buffalo grass plant at Pat Higgin’s place. It is loaded with seeds. Higgins planted some of the Buffel grass seed at the end of September 1950. The plant has seed heads out of the boot within 24 days of germination. TX-47, 349.

Photograph of Angleton grass—a solid mat of green forage. Average height is 4 feet. Runners range from 14 to 16 feet long. This grass was planted on 2 ½ acres in April, 1950. Planted in rows six feet apart from hand-dug clumps. TX-47-346.

Photograph of Pat Higgins showing Bill Roundtree, Soil Conservation District [SCD], the large seedhead forming on his Angleton grass. TX-47-347.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Richard Nixon campaigning through South Texas.

Funeral program for Bernice Wash, born February 8, 1916 and died May 16, 2002. The funeral was held May 23, 2002 at the Friendship Baptist Church, officiated by Reverend R. L. Archield, Sr. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home, and she was buried in the Britton Cemetery in La Vernia, Texas.