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[Railroad Engine 154]

Description: Photograph of Longview, Texas railroad workers posing next to Engine Number 154. From left to right, the men pictured are: J. W. Kinney, Switchman; Dee Moore, Longview Switch Engine; B. C. Todd, Sr., Fireman; W. J. Padon, Engineer; and Joe Still, Engine Foreman.
Date: 1870~
Creator: Culpepper, Cody
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

[Railroads in Longview]

Description: Photograph of four railroad workers posing next to a train in Longview, Texas. The engine is a 4-4-0 locomotive with the initials for Houston and Great Northern Railroad Company (H & G N R Co. #2) on the tender car and San Jacinto on the cab.
Date: 1870~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

[T&P Engraving of Fort Worth]

Description: Photograph of an engraving of the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The image depicts Fort Worth with buildings stretching into the distance and five plumes of smoke rising from throughout, two of which can be seen to come from train engines. The caption of the image is "Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 1876. 'Queen of the Prairies.'" The "Queen of the Prairies" phrase comes from a nickname for Fort Worth. Written below the image is "This engraving is part of an 1876 T&P map," and "J.C. McDaniel."
Date: 1876
Creator: McDaniel, J. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train at platform]

Description: Photograph of a train at a platform. A man stands near it. Smoke billows from the smokestack. No other passengers are visible. Houses are visible on the left parallel to the rail line.
Date: 1876?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from Junia Roberts Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout and Family, September 24, 1878]

Description: Letter from Junia Roberts Osterhout to her husband, John Patterson Osterhout, and family. Junia wrote her husband and children while she was visiting family in Pennsylvania. She told them who she had been seeing and still needed to stay with. Junia let her family know that she wanted to return before Christmas, but needed money sent to her.
Date: September 24, 1878
Creator: Osterhout, Junia Roberts
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Austin College

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 29, 1879]

Description: A letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout, expressing his regret that the house felt lonesome without Junia and the three children that were away. He hopes that his son, Paul, will return to live with them if the telegraph company relocates him to an office in town. John then told Junia that when she was ready to make the return home, she should consider whether or not to purchase a second class ticket for the train.
Date: October 29, 1879
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Austin College

Map of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and connections.

Description: Map shows railroads, state and territorial boundaries, major cities and towns, areas of Native American habitation, military posts, for eastern half of the United States as far west as the Rocky Mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1878
Creator: St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Improvement in Steam-Engines.

Description: Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in ventilating cars, &c.

Description: Patent for a system which prevents ashes and cinders from railroad engines from entering the train cars and also allows for ventilation of the cars. Includes illustration.
Date: August 22, 1876
Creator: Andrews, Wright S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
Date: January 5, 1875
Creator: Cleary, Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Description: Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
Date: September 24, 1872
Creator: Allen, Henry & Baldwin, Addison H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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