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Bowser and Blewett Family Trip to Oklahoma

Description: Copy photograph of a group of people identified as the Bowser family and Blewett family. They are posing in a camp with two covered wagons and a tent. Children are standing outside of the tent. The families camped while going to Oklahoma in 1897. Maimie Bowser kept a diary of the trip.
Date: August 1897
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Photograph of Women in a Parade, 1894]

Description: Photograph of six young women on a Slayden-Kirksey Woolen Mills Chariot in a parade. Text on the back reads: " 1894 Waco The queen was Miss Maude Chisolm of Waco & Maids of Honor she was sponsored by George Crippen of Waco...Texas Cotton Palace. ". Text on the front says " ~Slayden Kirksey Woolen Mills Chariot~ ".
Date: 1894
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

The A. S. G. 96

Description: Photograph of a group of people labeled as The A. S. G. They are standing under trees and are wearing pioneer clothing. A Conestoga wagon stands to the left of the group.
Date: June 1896
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

Vehicle-Pole.

Description: Patent for a simple vehicle-pole that has an improved fastening. It consists of a table with a socket, a pole in the socket, arms connected to the table, singletrees attached to the extending ends of the arms, and a running gear.
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohn, Frank G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Scene on Public Square, Waco]

Description: Drawing of a scene at the public square at Waco, with the old city hall at right. Along a road to the left of the city hall is a large crowd of horse-drawn vehicles, horseback riders, animals tied to hitching posts, and other pedestrians. The city hall at center is depicted with a fence and with its large, prominent steeple nestled in the background. A man on horseback, drawn on the bottom right, watches the crowd.
Date: 1890
Creator: Spitter, W. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a vehicle-wheel that has cushioned, pneumatic, or elastic tires, shoulders, inwardly extending parallel branches, a felly that holds the branches in place and curves around the body of the tire, bolts that go through the felly and the branches, and spokes inside the felly.
Date: July 17, 1894
Creator: Penoyer, Newton D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for an expansible coupling-bolt designed to not rattle and to "provide a simple but effective means for taking up the play between the coupling-pin in the lug-bearings" (lines 17-20).
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Stowe, John N., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hitching Device.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive hitching device that can be easily applied to the driver, can connect a weight to the draft animal's bit, and can be easily adjusted.
Date: October 3, 1893
Creator: Crowley, Joseph L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Thill-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a strong, durable, and simple thill coupling that does not need a spring connection in order to maintain a flexible connection between the thill and axle.
Date: July 25, 1893
Creator: Cobb, Woodson D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whip-Holder.

Description: Patent for a whip holder that locks the end of the whip into the holder, and lap-robes and other similar articles can also be held in the invention so they cannot be stolen.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Reeves, Fountain O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Extension-Step.

Description: Patent for improvements in extension-steps which attach to vehicles and "do away with the boxes used to assist in getting up to the first or lower step" (lines 10-12). When not in use, the steps can be swiveled up. They are raised, lowered, and locked into position with a mechanism operated using a handle.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whiffletree.

Description: Patent for a whiffletree for doubletrees and singletrees that is made of metal in its entirety. It consists of metal bars with end recesses, a middle brace, end caps with heads, hooks, a cross-bar or pivot, and rivets.
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Neck-Yoke.

Description: Patent for "a safety attachment for neck yokes which, if the neck yoke or the straps which connect it to the pole or to the collars break, will come into action and prevent the pole from dropping" (lines 8-13).
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ox-Yoke Key.

Description: Patent for an ox-yoke key that holds the bows in place. The key makes movement easy because of a swinging plate. "By this arrangement the plate may be swung so as to move the key away from the bow, and so as to move it toward the same; and in operation of advancing and retracting the key, the plate swings in the manner described abode" (lines 20-25).
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Johnson, Benjamin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curtain-Fixture.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and effective curtain fixture that allows for the curtain to be "easily and quickly raised or lowered bodily so as to admit more or less light through the window, and permit of proper ventilation without the admission of an undesirable amount of light" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 28, 1893
Creator: Villard, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Doubletree.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable double tree that utilizes the entire force of the strain and divides it equally between the animals.
Date: December 11, 1894
Creator: Beaver, Francis Marion
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle.

Description: Patent for a buckle "wherein a closed frame or box is employed that is formed with a smooth exterior surface to avoid contact with and injury to the animals on which it is used, and prevent the reins from contacting therewith, and dispensing with the use of a guard thereover; and at the same time producing a secure fastening that is applied to straps without the necessity of the employment of stitches or other modes of fastening" (lines 9-18).
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Monday, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Axle-Skein.

Description: Patent for an axle-skein. Its purpose is "to improve the construction of axle-skeins, to increase their strength and durability, and to decrease the wear of the same at the bottom thereof" (lines 10-14).
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Finley, Robert L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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