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Pendleton and Fergeson

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name and text reading: "Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals. Toilet Articles, Stationery, Etc. West Side Square. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day and Night."
Date: 1890
Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Mugshot of Manson Haggard]

Description: Photograph of Manson Haggard, mugshots. Inmate number OSR 11234. The type text on the back reads, "State Reformatory; Granite, Okla. Manson Haggard, #11234, recd. 27-36; from Cust--o; crime Asslt & Batt. with D. W.; term 6 monts; Dischared 5-5-36. Age 28 in 1936; height 5-10; weight 147; hair lt. brn; eyes blue. Occ. Barber. Relatives; Mother. Mrs. Martha Haggad, Putman, --ta. Brother; Arch Haggard, Lone World, Okla. 1/2 Brother; Edgar Allman, Daugherty, Texas. Uncle; Ben Haggard, Custer, Okla.… more
Date: February 8, 1939
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Manson Haggard holding the hand of a little boy]

Description: Photograph of Manson Haggard holding the hand of a little boy. The handwriting on the back reads, "Manson Haggard kidnapped the little black boy on about Feb. 8, 1938, at Crowell, Texas. A. W. Lilly and J. D. Todd caught him in Fairview, Ohio. 4 days later. He stayed in jail about six mo. (months) and broke out of jail stole my pistol and escaped. We caught him in Oklahoma 3 days latter."
Date: February 8, 1939
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Deceased photograph of Perry Gamble's body, following his suicide by train]

Description: Photograph of Perry Gamble's body, following his suicide by train. Typed on the back of the photograph, "The body of Perry Gamble - On the night of April 23rd, 1939, Perry Gamble left his house one mile north of Foard City at three o'clock in the morning and went to the rail road. The fireman on the train saw him standing beside the track. Just before the train got to him, he throwed his hands up and dove in front of the train. Eleven cards passed over his body. Both hands, both feet and his he… more
Date: April 23, 1939
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Grady Walker]

Description: Photograph of Grady Walker, wanted for burglary in Crowell, TX, c. 193X. Walker is seen holding onto the branches of two large leaves, his body partially shadowed in shade when this photograph of him was taken.
Date: 193X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Beauchamp Siblings With Dog]

Description: Photograph of the Beauchamp siblings and family dog. Oluff Beauchamp is leaning against the car, Sarah Ellen Beauchamp Totten is getting out of the driver's side, and Mary Caroline Beauchamp Saan is sitting in the backseat. The family dog "Boy Dog" is sitting on the car's running boards.
Date: 1930~
Partner: Midwestern State University

[Edwin Sanders and his horse taking a break]

Description: Edwin Sanders dipping a drink with the rolled brim of his hat while his mount and packhorse stand nearby. ED Ranch, near Crowell, Texas (Erwin E. Smith Collection, Amon Carter Museum of American Art). "Grabbing water" written in pencil on back.
Date: 1906
Creator: Smith, Erwin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lawn-Mower.

Description: Patent for improvements on lawn mowers with "drive wheels and an adjustable cutting mechanism [...] held in adjusted positions by means releasable by the propelling handle" (lines 10-15). This allows "adjusted positions to cut grass of different lengths without the necessity of the operator stooping" (lines 21-23), including illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Martin, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seeder and Planter.

Description: Patent for an improved design for a device which can plant corn seeds, and with slight modification, cotton seeds.
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Norris, Samuel E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Tongue

Description: Patent for wagon tongue that is designed to relieve the draft animals of shock caused by the flapping of a tongue.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Pearcy, Robert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tailor's-Goose Attachment.

Description: Patent for a tailor's goose which provides a "depressible and detachable dampening means for the goose for supplying water to the dampening means".
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Talley, Thurmon H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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