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Henrietta Street Scene

Street scene in downtown Henrietta, TX with a couple autos in the street.

Date: 1897

Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Postcard of exterior of the Danevang community hall. Five cars are parked outside, within the confines of a small chicken wire fence. A small secondary, adjacent, single-story structure lies just to the right of the community hall. There are a series of three tombstones a few feet from each other in front of the building. On the back of the postcard, hand-written text in blue ink reads, " No 10 from Helga Thyssen for archives".

Date: 1894/1950

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Man driving a car]

School book cover belonging to Byrd Williams, Jr., on which he sketched a man driving a car.

Date: [1890..1930]

Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Extension-Step.

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: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Vehicle-Brakes.

Patent for "an extension-handle for the manipulating-levers of vehicle-brakes" (lines 9-10). This invention was designed especially for vehicles with extra side-boards, so the brakes can be employed as conveniently as possible while the driver would normally have a hard time reaching the brake-lever.

Date: February 2, 1897

Creator: Edwards, Joshua H. & Edwards, Willie W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department