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2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
Date: 2001
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: Briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fatal car crash in West Texas.
Date: October 14, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Bed - Slat.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed-slates to provide a strong brace.
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: Pickett, Mollie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed Attachment.

Description: Patent for new bed design for invalids, containing a bedpan attached in the center of the bed. The bedpan is connected to a pipe, allowing the waste to be flushed away, just like any other toilet.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Smith, Nan Elma
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn-Power.

Description: Patent for improvements in churn-power by using a combination of “a vertical support [piece], an operating-lever pivoted thereto, a dasher-shaft, a horizontal bar connected to the said lever, and a cord secured at its ends to the said bar and wrapped between its ends around the dasher-shaft. All these parts combined to enable the churn to operate as described.” (Lines 55-61) Illustration is included.
Date: November 24, 1891
Creator: Reese, Roswell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Center]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 18, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1255

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Fisher County may hold a special election in accordance with Article 2688e, Vernon's Civil Statutes, to abolish the ex officio county school superintendent and county school board in the regular election year of the county judge.
Date: February 8, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Writing-Desk and File-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a writing desk with combined filing cabinet designed for routine clerical and writing tasks. The desk has the added benefit of maximizing file space in both the front and back of the desk while permitting the user to remain seated in order to access files.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Cooper, Samuel W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Bridge-Truss.

Description: Patent for an invention, which relates to a new and useful truss, particularly intended for bridges but applicable also for use in various other structures.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Beard, Eddie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Row-Binder.

Description: Patent for a type of new row binders by "use of rotary cuffs and adjustable bottom disposed conveyer belts" (lines 14-15), with illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Gruben, Edward J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Mayor L. E. Newton - February 2, 1942]

Description: A letter written to Mayor L. E. Newton, Mayor, Rotan, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, dated February 2, 1942. Carswell discourses on the gossip regarding remarks purportedly made by himself with reference to Newton and the Defense Guard at Rotan and advises Newton that those remarks "are so foreign of my high opinion of you that I never even imagined them".
Date: February 2, 1942
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Tate May to T. N. Carswell - June 7, 1952]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from Tate May, President, The Farmers and Merchants National Bank dated June 7, 1952. May acknowledges his receipt of the letter from Carswell notifying him of a meeting and dinner to be held on June 12 and accepts the invitation.
Date: July 7, 1952
Creator: May, Tate
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from M. T. Wilson to T. N. Carswell - April 11, 1944]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from M. T. Wilson, Fisher County, Roby, Texas, dated April 11, 1944. Wilson requests to be instructed regarding how to keep records for men forwarded for preinduction examination. He advises that as it is now the IV-F classification is the only indication that the men have been up for examination. The letter is typewritten on SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM letterhead bearing stamp of Local Board No. 1, Fisher County, Roby, Texas.
Date: April 11, 1944
Creator: Wilson, M. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Lon R. Adams to T. N. Carswell - June 10, 1941]

Description: A letter written to Commander T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Lon R. Adams, Commander Post 194, Rotan, Texas, dated June 10th 1941. Adams advises of an outdoor program to be held advising that their state commander Ed Ridel will attend and issues an invitation for Carswell to "round up your boys and bring them over".
Date: June 10, 1941
Creator: Adams, Lon R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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