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Car-Roofing.

Patent for "a novel and improved device for fastening corrugated sheet metal roofing, and the running board supports or blocks upon the car." (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 23, 1915

Creator: Maness, William Curtain

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[International Bridge over the Rio Grande]

Postcard of a bridge across a river, labeled, "International Bridge over the Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas." Several unknown buildings are visible on either end of the bridge. There is a letter on the back written 3/3/1917 that says, "Wanted to get across this bridge but on account of Typhus Epidemic on other side could not do so. Will cross at Brownsville. Wish you were along." (The epidemic mentioned was in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.)

Date: March 3, 1917

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Laredo Public Library

[Students at Central School, Laredo, Texas, 1919]

Portrait of 34 students of Josephine Roberts Baird class sitting on the South steps of Central School in Laredo, Texas. The man in the back is a monitor named "Juan." The signatures of all the students appear on the back of the portrait.

Date: March 1919

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Laredo Public Library

Water-Wheel

Patent for a water wheel. Illustrations included.

Date: March 10, 1910

Creator: Masterson, Bernard W.