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DeBardeleben & Hunter

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with text reading: "Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Ranch and Trail Supplies"; "Dry Goods, Gents Furnishing Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Farm Mach'y."; "Agents for Studerbaker Wagons and Buggies, Bellville Stoves, etc., etc." "Real Estate"; "Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Wool"; "At Amarillo, Texas, We Are Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Barb Wire, Wind Mills, Implements and … more
Date: 1891
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to hook-and-catch couplers for railroad cars; and it consists in making one which will automatically drop by turning in the quadrant of a circle as soon as the draw-heads of two cars strike together" (lines 15-19).
Date: January 21, 1890
Creator: Shelburn, Cephas C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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