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The Gas World

Description: An excerpt from a text on the benefits of cooking with gas, describing how to avoid wasting gas and the costs of its use.
Date: [1900..1925]
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

["$50 Reward" card]

Description: An illustrated card describing a $50 reward for a lost boy carrying "3 railway tunnels, an auger hole, and a monkey wrench" in a balloon. The illustration depicts the boy hanging from an umbrella, kicking off "the court house steeple."
Date: [1900..1925]
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Free Text Book Law

Description: A printing of the Free Text Book Law, which was enacted by the Texas state legislature in February 1919. Included at the end is a list of books adopted by the Board of Education by subject. A small slip of paper is also included, defining the term "maximum attendance."
Date: March 1919
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Texas Teacher's Daily Register for Graded and Ungraded Schools

Description: An unused daily register for Texas schools in the 1890s. The register includes instructions for its use and a recommended daily program. In the registry are spaces for recording students and their age, subjects learned, absences, and other relevant information. At the end is a report template for year-end student data and performance.
Date: 1890~
Creator: Texas. Office of the Governor.
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family
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