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Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Description: Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Diamond Horse Ranch #1]

Description: Photograph of Diamond Horse Ranch. This photograph is of a marker for the Diamond Station Butterfield Overland Mail Stage Stop at the Diamond Horse Ranch. It reads "The Diamond Station was a stop along the nearly 700 mile stretch across the Lone Star State for the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage Line Company. The Butterfield Overland Mail Company held the U.S. Mail contract for the first cross-country trek from St. Louis to San Francisco. marked as the first intercontinental mail route, the But… more
Date: [2011-12..2012-03]
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Partner: Private Collection of Carolyn West

[News Script: Obit Weitzel]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a long-time manager of the Sherman Chamber of Commerce, who died at a Sherman hospital.
Date: January 31, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Newspaper Clippings About Postmaster J. B. Dickey]

Description: Newspaper clipping from The Denison Herald and Sherman Democrat regarding Pottsboro postmaster J. B. Dickey. The article from the Denison Herald refers to a new brick building with a photograph of the postmaster and his wife standing in front of the door, and the article from the Sherman Democrat refers to the postmaster's retirement.
Date: October 5, 1962
Partner: Pottsboro Public Library

Pottsboro, Texas 75076

Description: Text describing the history of Pottsboro, Texas. Topics include its time as a trading post owned by Holland Coffee, Civil War history, and the growth of the community.
Date: unknown
Creator: Dickey, J. B. (Jim Bailey)
Partner: Pottsboro Public Library

[Post Office in Sherman, Texas]

Description: Postcard image of the United States Post Office in Sherman, Texas. The post office is two stories tall, has rounded first floor windows and entrances. Bushes line the exterior of the building and on the roof an United States Flag is visible.
Date: unknown
Creator: Graycraft Card Co.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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