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[Photograph of Street in Boerne, Texas]

Description: The photograph of a street in Boerne, Texas and the sidewalk to the left of it. The street is lined with trees and poles, and there are two horse-drawn buggies, one on the street and one one the sidewalk. On the sidewalk, and across the street, there are buildings and storefronts - one with a sign reading "Meat Market." The back of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings and a note about the date and location of the photo.
Date: 1906
Creator: Kodak
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[Post Office Street, Flooded]

Description: Photograph of a flood along Post Office Street in Galveston. Floodwater covers the lower half of the image, submerging the road's surface. The margins of the road, lined with trees, fences, and a tall church building, appear dry. A person stands at the very end of the road, along the horizon.
Date: October 14, 1906
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Street-Sweeping Machine.

Description: Patent for street sweeping machine that improves the collection and dumping of material and includes a scraping device to loosen material stuck to the roadway.
Date: May 8, 1906
Creator: Clark, James P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Road-Working Machine.

Description: Patent for a road working machine, which claims to simplify and improve the type of this machine that is designed to "operate upon banks at the sides of the road for the purpose of trimming such banks and moving the surplus dirt in the direction of the center of the road." (lines 11-14)
Date: April 3, 1906
Creator: McBride, William J. & Alford, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill

Description: Patent for a improvement for Drills and its usefulness.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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