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[A family on their homestead]

Photograph of two women, leaning against a wooden-post fence in front of their home and barn, watching a little girl in a white dress walking towards the camera. The little girl's dress is swept upwards with the wind.

Date: [1880..]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a young girl on a horse]

Photograph of a very young girl, seated atop of a horse that is tied to a wire fence, with another horse to the left. The young girl is wearing a white dress and riding boots and her hair is swept to the right from the wind.

Date: [1880..]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Paul Osterhout to the Osterhout Family, January 9, 1885]

Letter from Paul Osterhout to Osterhout family regarding his various visits to family in Pennsylvania. The bulk of the letter served as updates for how each family member was doing at the time. Paul apologized for not writing more since he had been busy. He inquired about how they spent Christmas.

Date: January 9, 1885

Creator: Osterhout, Paul

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin College

Farm Gate.

Patent for a new and improved farm gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging-gate, the combination of a plate provided with notches upon its upper outer end and connected to the upper end of the inner gate-post, a lever pivoted to the plate and connected with the upper pintle of the gate, a latch pivoted to the lever and extending down through a slot therein to engage with the notches in the plate, and suitable cords and pulleys for operating the latch and lever" (lines 17-26).

Date: July 7, 1885

Creator: Akin, Leonidas T.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department