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Locomotive Ash-Pan.

Description: Patent for "locomotive ash-pans which are cleared of ashes and cinders without necessitating the stopping of the engine or requiring the fireman or other person going beneath the engine to relieve the ash-pan of its contents, thereby saving expense in labor and obviating loss of time in long runs." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Cummings, Summer Field
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Turn Table

Description: Patent for a new and improved turn table. This invention "relates to an improvement in turn-tables, and its an improvement on that particular kind of turn-table shown and described in Patent NO.517,304" (line 7-9).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

E. K. Fawcett

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration and stylized text with business name, and text reading: "Ranch on East Dolan, Mark and Brand in Cut kept up on all Increase, also own all Brands formerly belonging to S. Norris, Wm. Cook, S. Noling and Henry Roach."
Date: 1897
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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