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[News Clip: Watt Matthews]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 1993
Duration: 3 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Churn-Operating Device.

Description: Patent for a churn operating device to make the process more simple and efficient for the use of producing butter in the shortest possible time.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Palm, Oliver
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Personal Narrative about Western Frontier Days]

Description: Personal narrative written by an unknown author describing what life was life for cattle drivers and buffalo hunters in the days of the western frontier, focusing on the area of Fort Griffin. Penciled notes and corrections are written throughout, and the phrase, "To be recopied" is written at the top of the first page.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Historic Plaque, Shackelford County

Description: Photograph of a historic plaque in Albany, Texas. It reads: "Shackelford County. First inhabited by nomadic Indian tribes, Shackelford County was created in 1858 and named for Dr. John Shackelford (1790-1857). The first permanent Anglo-American settlers in this area included J. C. Lynch (1828-1912), a native of Ireland who moved here in 1858; W. H. Ledbetter (1833-84), who arrived in 1859 and later started the Ledbetter Salt Works; T. E. Jackson (b.1820), a merchant who settled in the northern … more
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Soil Survey of Shackelford County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Shackelford County, Texas.
Date: 1990
Creator: Lowther, A. C.; Moore, Joe D. & Coburn, Winfred C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

General Soil Map, Shackelford County, Texas

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:253,440.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Four Men on Matthews Ranch Land]

Description: Photograph of four men on Matthews Ranch land. A note written on the bottom left of the note mentions the location, the address, the date, and the photographer. The man, left, is an unidentified young man in a coat and a large hat. The man with the paper to the left is identified as Merry Howard. The older man in the three piece suit is identified as Judge J. H. Matthews. Most of the fourth man is obscured by blurred white space.
Date: May 11, 1926
Creator: Hans, O. E.
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Six Men on Horseback]

Description: Photograph of a line of men on horseback on treed range land. From left to right: Unidentified; Pink Halbert; Watt Matthews; Bill McKeichan; Frank Reynolds; and Archie McKeichan.
Date: 1925
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch

[Charlie Standifer Holding a Turkey By His Side]

Description: Photograph of Charlie Standifer standing in an expansive field where cattle can be seen grazing in the distance. He is holding a turkey at his side and in his other hand he is holding a jug. He is wearing a long-sleeve, collared button-up shirt and pants that are held up by a belt.
Date: 1900~
Partner: Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch
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