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Spark-Arrester.

Patent for self-driven, rotating, exhaust vent brushes to arrest sparks.

Date: January 18, 1887

Creator: Elkins, William Franklin

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Capitol Building After Fire of 1881]

Photograph of state Capitol building after the fire on the 9th of November, 1881. Several people can be seen standing on the steps leading up to the building.

Date: 1881

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout, January 20, 1881]

Letter from Paul Osterhout to his father, John Patterson Osterhout, discussing his time at Baylor College. He apologized for himself and for his sister Gertrude because they had not written home sooner and updated them about recent events, including a night fire in the boys' boarding house that they were eventually able to suppress. He told his father about his studies in Virgil and mathematics.

Date: January 20, 1881

Creator: Osterhout, Paul

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin College