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[People in Street After Flood]

Description: Photograph of people standing in high waters in the street after a flood in Port Arthur, Texas. There are several horse-drawn wagons in the street, and people stand on the balconies of some of the buildings in the background.
Date: August 18, 1915
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Flooding Outside Post Office]

Description: Photograph of people pushing boats and standing in high flood waters in front of the post office in Port Arthur, Texas. Several people sit in a horse-drawn wagon to the right, and a large group of people stand on the post office's steps.
Date: August 18, 1915
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[News Script: Covered wagon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Gillis family taking a covered wagon from Virginia to Texas en route to California.
Date: February 18, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of New Bedford Central Fire Station, New Bedford, Mass.]

Description: Postcard of the New Bedford Central Fire Station, with the firemen in two horse-drawn vehicles and one automobile. The three vehicles are parked in front of a garage with three doors, each labeled (from left to right) "Hose No. 1", "Hose No. 3", and "Ladder No. 1." There is a handwritten message to George Pendexter on the back of the postcard, and it says, "[...] I prefer Fire Dept. cards but any you send will be very acceptable [...]"
Date: November 18, 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard with a Photograph of a Horse-Drawn Fire Wagon]

Description: Postcard with a photo of one of the engines of the Springfield Fire Department in Springfield, Massachusetts. The person who wrote the note on the back of the picture says that he caught a cold during the "Indian PowWow Clambake at Riverside Park." The wagon in the picture is loaded with blankets, rope, and a long water hose rolled up in the back and is being pulled by two spotted horses; two firemen are also seated in the driver's seat holding the reins.
Date: October 18, 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

Thill-Support.

Description: Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the a… more
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Price, Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Jack and Wrench.

Description: Patent for a combined jack and wrench. This patent focuses on a combined wagon jack and wrench, which acts as a wheel removing device.
Date: November 18, 1913
Creator: Gregory, Robert H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buggy-Axle

Description: Patent for a buggy-axle that has the hub of the wheel so arranged as to rotate with the stub axle of the device, holding the wheel in place.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Elliott, Claude B. & Kurtz, Edward
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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