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Yoakum Community: The First Hundred Years 1887-1987

History of the community of Yoakum, Texas and surrounding areas, including information about the people and families, businesses, agriculture, and social organizations. Index starts on page 386.

Date: 1987

Creator: Yoakum Sesquicentennial/Centennial Book Committee

Item Type: Book

Partner: Carl and Mary Welhausen Library

The Junior Historian, Volume 12, Number 2, November 1951

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.

Date: November 1951

Creator: Texas State Historical Association

Item Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter

Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Mail Bag Catcher and Deliverer

Patent for a mail bag catcher and deliverer. "This invention relates to mail bag catchers and deliverers and the principle object of the invention is the provision of simple and efficient mechanism of the character which may be readily and conveniently thrown to operative and inoperative position and wherein the saddle bars and their respective guards may be aligned with the track and car" (lines 9-17). Illustrations included.

Date: January 14, 1913

Creator: Freeman, Richard J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Crossing.

Patent for railway crossing that will prevent shock and vibrations from passing over broken pieces of crossing.

Date: October 21, 1913

Creator: Bristow, George O.