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[Cotton Wagons on Spring Street - Palestine]

Photo of cotton wagons on Spring Street. Notice the Buckhorn Saloon, Sam Lucas Store and the Star Boarder in the photo.

Date: 1890~

Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission

Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas

This book covers statistical information for the state of Texas. It includes "great inducements for the investment of capital, health for the invalid, interesting sights and scenes for the tourist and pleasure seeker, broad fields of research for the historian, unsurpassed hunting grounds for the sportsman, and other resources waiting to be unlocked by the key of capital in the hands of labor and industry" (title page).

Date: 1890

Creator: Missouri Pacific Railway Company

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries

[Letter from Alice McGee to to Aunt Mary and Uncle Charles Moore]

Letter from Alice McGee to her aunt and uncle, Mary and Charles Moore. She wrote about her trip home to Tennessee through New Orleans. She encountered a train wreck and saw flooding in Morgan City. Her letter that said that she was returning home had not arrived, so her arrival surprised her family.

Date: May 1890

Creator: McGee, Alice

Item Type: Letter

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator

Patent for improvements so that the "choppers may be raised, in order to leave standing such of the growth of the cotton as is necessary, or while turning corners; third, in means hereinafter to be described, by which the depth at which the scrapers and choppers run into the ground maybe adjusted" (lines 16-22).

Date: May 6, 1890

Creator: Ellis, David P,

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, durable, and effect ive in operation, and which may be easily manipulated" (lines 11-14).

Date: March 11, 1890

Creator: Porter, William Daniel