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Bowser and Blewett Family Trip to Oklahoma

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: Photograph

Partner: Richardson Public Library

Whip-Holder.

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: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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.