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Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.

Description: Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date: November 26, 1895
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Banker's Daily-Balance Index.

Description: Patent for a banker's daily-balance index meant to "promote the speed and accuracy of book-keepers in keeping the personal daily balance ledger in banking and other like business" (lines 9-12). The patent is for a piece of paper divided with ink into strips on the front and back.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Thomas, Thomas Parry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

First National Bank Pay to Denton County News

Description: Check from First National Bank of Denton, Texas to the Denton County News in the amount of four dollars. The check is dated May 4, 1895. A note below the amount says, "fine account (stationary)." The check is signed by Jagoe & Ponder.
Date: May 4, 1895
Creator: First National Bank
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Denton business directory and advertisements]

Description: This card contains advertisements for early Denton commerce. The advertisements include banks, saloons, grocers, drug stores, hardware stores, galleries, hotels, restaurants, and feed stores. We believe the card was created sometime in the year of 1895 based on the advertisement for The Denton Hotel which said it was the successor to Pierce House. We found no other newspaper advertisements for Pierce House after February of 1895.
Date: 1895~
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Two people in the doorway of the J.H.P. Davis Bank building]

Description: Photograph of the J.H.P. Davis Bank building in Richmond, Texas. The two story stucco and brick building has a turret at the corner with a sign near top that reads: "Beasley & George" and above the corner entrance " Bank". There are two men standing on the top step of the entrance. A third person (blurred image) is standing beneath the canopy on far left of the building. Another canopy (folded) is near a set of steps on far right of building. Two utility poles are located along the sidewalk wit… more
Date: [1895..1900]
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

Vault Cash-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a vault cash-indicator meant to "provide a new and improved indicator, designed for indicating an amount of money, commercial articles, &c.; for instance, indicating the amount of money contained in a safe or vault" (lines 7-11).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Alarm.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient electric alarm to be used for vault protection. It is a magnet, which is a better design than a coil. The magnet is suspended between two points, and a spring that pushes it in one direction. There is an armature that causes friction when it slides, and sounds an alarm when the arm moves in one direction.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Hull, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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