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Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.

Description: Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Hart, Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hays County

Description: Map of the Hill Country region covering Hays County, Texas. The center of Hays County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 1877
Creator: Langermann, A. B.
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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