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[The Butler Building]

Description: Photograph of the Butler Building, a historic two-story League City building located on Second Street which was then known as King's Trail. A few horses and horse-drawn wagons are parked just outside the building. Three men are standing in the open doorway of the building; the man on the far right is John P. Atkinson, according to accompanying information.
Date: December 29, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.511499 -95.091446
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[The Butler Building]

Description: Photograph of the Butler Building, a historic two-story League City building located on Second Street which was then known as King's Trail. Two horses, one of them tethered to a wagon, are standing just outside the building. Several men are standing in a line near the building entrance; one of the men is John P. Atkinson, according to accompanying information.
Date: December 29, 1909
Creator: Schlueter, F. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.511499 -95.091446
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Horse-Drawn Wagon in a Holiday Parade]

Description: Photograph of a horse-drawn wagon in the parade for the first annual League City Holiday Festival of Lights. The wagon's frame is uncovered and exposed. Two women, one of whom is waving to parade spectators, are riding the wagon while a man steers the horses. The parade procession is moving down Farm to Market Road 518 and Highway 3 until eventually culminating in Walter Hall Park.
Date: December 11, 1987
Creator: Kiecke, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Horse-Drawn Wagon in a Holiday Parade]

Description: Photograph of a middle-aged couple and some children riding a horse-drawn wagon in the parade for the first annual League City Holiday Festival of Lights. The man on the left is holding the reins to steer the horses, which are only partially visible. The procession is traveling down Farm to Market Road 518 and Highway 3 and will eventually culminate in Walter Hall Park.
Date: December 11, 1987
Creator: Kiecke, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Gatesville May Queen Float]

Description: Photograph of a May Queen parade float attached to a team of horses. A canopy covers much of the flower-festooned float. The five formally dressed girls are identified from the left as Nona Christman, Marie Suggs, May Queen Eula Gilder, and Annie Atkins. A man wearing a dark hat and coat sits at the front of the float and holds the reigns of its team of horses. A man can be seen riding behind the horses, and another man holds the heads of the front pair of horses. Ruby's Saloon and the city's F… more
Date: December 1915
Creator: William J. Blair Studios
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Gatesville May Queen Float]

Description: Photograph of a May Queen parade float attached to a team of horses. A canopy covers much of the flower-festooned float. The five formally dressed girls are identified from the left as Nona Christman, Marie Suggs, May Queen Eula Gilder, and Annie Atkins. A man wearing a bowler hat and dark clothes rides a dark horse beside the float. A man wearing a dark hat and coat sits at the front of the float and holds the reigns of its team of horses. A man can be seen riding behind the horses, and anothe… more
Date: December 1915
Creator: William J. Blair Studios
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell
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[News Clip: Candle tour]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 9, 1982
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dr. J. M. Travis]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 14, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a Fire Station in Cincinnati, Ohio]

Description: Postcard of a fire station in the shoe and leather district in Cincinnati, Ohio. The fire department is outside the building with six horse-drawn vehicles in front of four garage doors. The doors are labeled (from left to right), "Engine Co - No. 44", "Engine Co - "No. 4", "Water Tower No. 2", and "Ladder Co - No. 7." A handwritten message on the back of the photograph says, "[...] I am sending you this to let you know that I am alive, but want to get back to [...]. Give all the boys my regards… more
Date: December 15, 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Jacksonville Trades Day]

Description: Copy negative of the business district of Jacksonville. People stand in the streets next to full wagons pulled by horses. On the far left, a sign advertises Bull Durham Tobacco and shops line both sides of the road.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Jacksonville Business District]

Description: Copy negative of the business district of Jacksonville. There is a water tank in the background, and people stand in the streets next to full wagons pulled by horses.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

Wagon-Brake.

Description: Patent for a wagon brake that allows the detachment of a horse from the wagon, including illustration.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: Gibbs, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Seat Spring.

Description: Patent for an elliptic seat spring on a wagon that is "arranged longitudinally on the front of the wagon-box, for the purpose of taking up the jar and jolt of wagons in passing over rough places in the roads" (lines 15-18). The springs will stay in place once installed.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Ingle, Jacob Odem, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Logging-Truck.

Description: Patent for a logging-truck that is a "simple and convenient apparatus which is operated by a team to raise the logs from the ground, and which thus obviates the necessity of using a hand windlass as is usually done" (lines 14-18). This is used in countries where it does not snow often.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Brough, William, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive thill-coupling that "can be conveniently applied to any ordinary vehicle, which is arranged in such a way that rattling is positively prevented, and which, when the thills are dropped, permits them to be freely lifted from the coupling; also to a modified form of the device designed to prevent rattling only" (lines 12-18).
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Parker, Daniel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for the invention for new and useful improvements on the thill-coupling along with illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Street-Car.

Description: Patent for improving the construction of street cars which turn upon the truck. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1885
Creator: Cutter, Martin A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Singletree Attachment.

Description: Patent for "an improved device on the end of a singletree to hold the end of a harness-tug" (lines 12-14). It has a stirrup-holder hinged to a ferrule, a handle, a stirrup, and a tug.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: Cawthon, Peter WIllis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Christmas in Downtown Midland, 1892]

Description: Photograph of downtown Midland during Christmas in 1892. Numerous storefronts line Abilene (now Main) Street, including a meat market, while crowds of people and covered carriages puled by horses walk across the frozen ground. People stand on sidewalks and in the street, some looking towards the photographer.
Date: December 1892
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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