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[News Clip: Wagon train]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a wagon train headed by an evangelical preacher stopping in Arlington.
Date: November 12, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wagon train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a wagon train headed by an evangelical preacher stopping in Arlington.
Date: November 12, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of a Fire Station, Spokane, Washington]

Description: Postcard of a fire department at their station, lined up with five horse-drawn vehicles outside their respective garage doors. To the right of the rightmost wagon, there is a sixth door that says, "Police." On the back of the postcard, the sender has left a handwritten message that says, "An account of the stupendous amount of work in my department at present. I am unable to make up my list of correspondents. For this you can permit me to decline your offer."
Date: November 12, 1907
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Photograph of Group on a Horse-Drawn Carriage]

Description: Note on the back of the photograph reads, "A group of students of 1898, descending from a tally ho at Belle Mead for a picnic. John Jones lulls lazily on the back seat. Daisy McQuigg stands next is C.W. Dorris crowned with a derby. Annie Gill the beauty looks cozy by at 'Pretty' Williams as he swings down. W[?] Harding, Sister Harding and Clara Benidick stand in the next row with Sam Pitinazer about to [?] his derby as he looks down. Porter Ward is just back of Glora Sullivan. Will Sewell reach… more
Date: March 12, 1905
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Photograph of Baptisms in Green's Creek]

Description: Copy negative of a large group of people at Green's Creek for baptisms during the early twentieth century. Some people are standing in the water, a crowd is standing on the bank, and horses and wagons are visible in the background at the top of a hill.
Date: November 12, 1963
Partner: Dublin Historical Museum

[A horse-drawn carriage at the 13th annual County Seat Saturday in Denton]

Description: Photograph of a horse-drawn carriage at the 13th annual County Seat Saturday in Denton, Texas. The carriage is white with red seats along with large, spoked wheels. The black canopy of the carriage has been left down, revealing the dark hair of the vehicle's single occupant. At the back of the carriage is some text vaguely resembling "Doubieliee Carriages" and "631-4996" along with a red high-visibility triangle. Pulling the carriage is one horse with a brown coat, white feet, a white mane and … more
Date: September 12, 1998
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wagon-Tongue Support.

Description: Patent for "improvements in the running gear of draft wagons, and has for its objects to provide a novel, simple device for the support of the wagon tongue, and an improved means for obviating friction between the coupling pole of the vehicle, and the slide bar on the front hounds of the wagon running gear" (lines 8-15).
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Tiner, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a vehicle wheel meant for children's carriages that has double fellies, spokes, and a hub that has "an interposed band connecting said fellies at suitable intervals and adapted for the attachment to the spokes" (lines 69-71).
Date: February 12, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tongue-Support.

Description: Patent for a tongue support that lessens the weight and wearing of the tongue on the horse's neck. The spring is made of steel, is two or more coils, and sits on the tongue rod. The spring's firmness is adjustable, and only enough weight to hold the tongue in place is put on the animal.
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Young, Delma H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher.

Description: Patent for a device to release horses reins in the case of the horse running away.
Date: November 12, 1907
Creator: McDanill, John Riley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent for a draft equalizer for vehicles drawn by three horses. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Tedder, Iverson, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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