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Music-Case.

Description: Patent for a "music case or holder for carrying, protecting, and using sheet-music, and is so constructed that by its use the music is not rolled nor creased, is held in place, and it is not necessary to take the music from the case when it is to be used." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1895
Creator: Ray, Theodore
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washing-Machine

Description: Patent for "a washing-machine which will rapidly wash clothes of coarse or fine texture without injury thereto. This object I accomplish by my improved washing-machine, which consists, essentially, of a cylindrical body, a flexible and adjustable wash-board in the lower half thereof, and a corrugated drum rotating in the body above the wash-board" (lines 9-16).
Date: October 28, 1890
Creator: Baugh, Reuben P.
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Legal Tender Saloon

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the names Truesdell & Gardner, Proprietors.
Date: 1898
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Legal Tender Saloon

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and the names J. J. Westmoreland; W. E. Truesdell.
Date: 1894
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Hotel Llano

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name, and text reading: "Polite Attention to All Guests of the House." Letterhead contains the names Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Dunn, Proprietors.
Date: 1890
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Midland Sandstorm, 1894]

Description: Photograph of a sandstorm approaching Midland on February 20, 1894. The sandstorm, dozens of feet tall, lays behind the small town, which consists only of several houses, water towers, and windmills. Two people walk between openings in a fence along a dirt path at right.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Symonds, H. G.
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Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Five Wells Ranch, Catching Horses]

Description: Photograph of the Five Wells Ranch remuda—"catching horses." The horses are gathered in a large herd on a vast grass plain, with several cowboys standing among the horses. A note on the back states that "enough farming is now done on Five Wells to produce needed grain sorghums for food, but no cotton is permitted."
Date: 1890
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
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Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Five Wells Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of "5 [Wells] [Cow]boys," pictured together in two rows in the grass and facing forward. Several people are identified by name: 1, Andrew Allen, standing first from left; 2, Timberline, seated first from left; 3, Wild Bill seated second from left; 4, Doc Sears, standing second from left; 5, Jim Darling, seated third from left; 6, Jim Smith, standing third from left; 7, Tom Hudspeth, seated fourth from left; 8, Henry Williams, standing fourth from left; 9, Elmer Greenled, seated four… more
Date: 1895
Creator: Hoyt, E. E.
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Partner: Midland Historical Society

[First Section House in Germania]

Description: Photograph of the first section house built in Germania, Midland County, for Texas and Pacific railway workers. The section house sits behind the railway, and is a narrow two-story wooden frame building with a gable roof and a picket fence next to the railway. Workers stand on the railway, a handcar on the rails, a child playing with a shovel next to the rails, and several women standing behind, nearer to the picket fence.
Date: 1895
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Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Home in South Midland]

Description: Photograph of homes on the southern side of Midland in 1892. The home at right, one-story and gable-roofed with a windmill, sits on the corner of Kentucky Avenue and Baird Street, and was the early home of J. H. Mims. The house at left, mostly identical to Mims', was the early home of Fred Cowden. Bare grassland surrounds the homes.
Date: 1892
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Location: 31.994398 -102.073058
Partner: Midland Historical Society

Button for Billiard Counters.

Description: Patent for a new and improved button for billiard counters. This design "ha[s] the transverse opening and passage extending therefrom to the periphery thereof and communicating with said opening and the longitudinal hole in close proximity to the transverse opening, and the pin adapted to engage said hole, whereby the button is removably secured to a wire" (lines 83-90).
Date: November 18, 1890
Creator: De Vitt, Phillip Melvin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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