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Tire-Heater.

Patent for an improved tire heater that utilizes gasolene (gasoline) or other liquid hydrocarbon burners to encircle a tire and direct jets of flame at it to quickly heat the tire. The tire heater can adapt to fit tires of different sizes.

Date: June 18, 1918

Creator: Palmero, Louis M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Tire.

Patent for "tires such as are used for automobiles and other like vehicles in which it is desirable to absorb the shocks incident to rapid travel over road by means of an inherent resiliency in the tire" (lines 12-16) including illustration.

Date: May 21, 1918

Creator: Pepple, John W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Freedom For All Forever Cart and Family]

Photograph of three girls, three women, a man in a suit and two smaller children in a cart pulled by a goat. The cart has the words "Freedom for all forever" painted on the side.

Date: 1918

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Oxen carts in front of a pawn shop]

Oxen carts in front of a pawn shop, Laredo, Texas. There is a letter on the back of the postcard addressed to Mr. Wilfred Hellser from "H. W."

Date: June 25, 1918

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Postcard to Mrs. C.W. Bash from her brother, September 8, 1918]

Postcard sent to Mrs. C. W. Bash from her brother picturing a group of covered wagons in Camp MacArthur in Waco, Texas with a handwritten message on the back saying that he is feeling fine and that he wishes he was back in Kansas City, Kansas.

Date: September 8, 1918

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis