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[News Script: Frenchmen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a young French man was was lving 120-feet underground in a cave in Del Rio and conducting experiments for seven months.
Date: September 4, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Caveman]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Michel Siffre coming out of a cave near Del Rio, Texas that he had stayed in for 205 days.
Date: September 5, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Automatic Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve that uses a lever to open and close quickly, with illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Felly-Joint Bridge

Description: Patent for a felly joint bridge designed to strengthen and support vehicle wheels, with illustrations.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Lawrie, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Valve

Description: Patent for an automatic valve, "designed to automatically control the water-supply to a suitable reservoir through the operation of a float (lines 9-11), with illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Postcard of Community

Description: Copy negative of two postcard pictures. The first is of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin, Texas at nighttime, with a statue, trees, and landscaping in front. The second picture is of a small building in Langtry, Texas with signs reading "Judge Roy Bean," "Notary Public," "Justice of the Peace," "Law West of the Pecos," "Jersey Lilly," and "Ice Beer." There are four men on horseback on the left, one on the right, and four men on the porch. There is a note about Judge Roy Bean at the to… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Val Verde Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Val Verde County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:355,555] (8000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1908
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band Students

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band standing together on a street in Del Rio Texas. Some of the students are in uniform, but most of the girls aren't. There are buildings lining the street, a bus behind them, and the location is written at the top left of the photograph.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Billiard-Ball Holder.

Description: Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple, practical, and easy to use car coupling and in air brake coupling that automatically couples cars together. It can be easily uncoupled from the top or sides of cars. When it couples, it also connects the cars' air pipes together.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car-coupling "which will afford means to automatically connect cars and release them in a safe manner from the roof or side of a car" (lines 9-11) and to adapt the improved coupling for connection with one of the ordinary type, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of lands in Val Verde County Texas.

Description: Map shows railroads, roads, barb wire fences, and tracts of land along the Devil's River with dimensions, acreage and ownership. On verso: Description of lands shown by map on reverse hereof. Scale [1:88,334].
Date: 1913
Creator: White Phelps & Cox of New Jersey (Firm)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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