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Car-Seat.

Description: Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1897
Creator: Meier, Hermann
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Rail Joint.

Description: Patent for a specialized railroad joint that has a "novel combination of a T-shaped splice rail" (lines 12-13) in combination with other parts, "connected with downwardly-curved truss-bolts passing through the vertical member of the splice-rail in such matter as to hold all of the parts firmly together..." (lines 19-23).
Date: March 16, 1897
Creator: Trammell, Jefferson D.
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[Andrew L. Bowers]

Description: Andrew L. Bowers was born in 1852 in North Carolina. Upon moving to Texas, his first job was as a day laborer on an iron bridge at Columbus, TX. He was eighteen years of age. At nineteen he was promoted to foreman, with the Delaware Bridge Company. Afterward, he worked for the railroads, steadily climbing their ranks until he reached the position of Superintendent of Construction for the Northwest division, covering the area from Spring to Fort Worth. He eventually left the railroad, resigning … more
Date: 1897
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.762118 -95.630740
Partner: Palestine Public Library

State of Texas, Liberty County

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of county name and decorative designs with illustration of courthouse in lithographic print by Dorsey Ptg. Co. Dallas, Tex. Letterhead includes names H. O. Ager, Co. Clerk; W. L. Bingle, Dist. Clerk; W. A. Neyland, Co. Judge; M. A. DeBlanc, Sheriff & Tax Collector; H. Steusoff, Assessor; L. C. Chambers, Treasurer; J. D. Lum, Co. Attorney; J. N. Dark, Co. Surveyor; Commissioners Sim DeBlan… more
Date: 1897
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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