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[News Script: Prisoners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a search for five prisoners that broke out from the Fort Bend County Jail at Richmond.
Date: May 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Championship Girls Basketball Team (1918) from Richmond]

Description: Photograph of the Championship Girls Basketball Team (1918) from Richmond High School. Women are dressed in light colored shirts with big white collars. Five of the women have scarves around their collars. They are seated on the steps of the school with a basketball with R.H.S. Champions 1918 printed on the ball. Team members identified (written on back of photo in pencil) from left to right as: Bottom row: Lucile Rich, Rosalie Daughtery, Marguerite Wessendorff. Top row: Johnny Winder, Coach -… more
Date: 1918
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Mrs. Ashley Davis.]

Description: Photograph of Mrs. Ashley Davis (identification written in ink on back). Woman in dark wool dress with jacket. She is wearing a matching hat. Windmill and wooden pump house in background (left). Fading across center of photo that runs from bottom.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[The observance of the 100th anniversary of the Methodist Church.]

Description: Photograph of the observance of the 100th anniversary of the Methodist Church in Richmond, Texas. As stated on back in green ink (and blue) the church was founded in 1839 (January 22) and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1939.Goup of people standing in church yard (including choir dressed in white robe tops to center of photo). Small bare shrub in right corner of photo. Church to left background. White two-story building in far background and large tree to right.
Date: 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[The 1899 flood. Trees in background.]

Description: Photograph of the 1899 flood. Trees in background. Cement arch in front of trees in center of photo. Photo is mounted on cardboard substrate. Photo has ragged edges and is cracked in bottom left corner. Has black spot on far left, center. Back has tape in cracked area.
Date: 1899
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Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Mrs. Matthew (Florence B.) Moore Newell.]

Description: Photograph of Mrs. Matthew (Florence B.) Moore Newell. Woman wearing a white dress with ruffles at the bottom and ruffled stand-up collar. She is seated and has her hands clasped across her knee. Background has tassels hanging from fabric backdrop to the right of photo. Photo has blue ink identification written on back.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[A young man with dark hair]

Description: Photograph mounted on cardboard substrate of a young man with dark hair, wearing dark shoes, stockings, and pants. He has a white shirt with dark scarf tied in a bow at his neck. He has his right leg crossed over his left. His left hand is resting on a wicker chair. Bottom of cardboard reads: C. O. Lorenze, Richmond, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lorenz, C.O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Cousin Laura Granddaughter of Gail Borden]

Description: Photograph (copy) of two women. Back of photo in blue ink reads: From Freeman A. Davis- Great Grandson of Kinchen W. Davis- "Cousin Laura Granddaughter of Gail Borden". Woman with wire rimmed eyeglasses on left is wearing a skirt with jacket and has her gray hair pulled back in a bun at nape of her neck. Woman on right is wearing a dark skirt, white shirt, white jacket, and black bow tie. She has her gray hair pulled back. Shrubbery (or small tree) behind them. They may be standing in front of … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Ed Priester in his buggy]

Description: Photograph (copy) of Ed Priester in his buggy. A dark horse with a least three white stocking feet (cannot see fourth) seen. Priester (who we can see only in profile) is wearing a dark colored suit with dark hat. A (at least two story) brick building is in the background. Scanned image is of copy.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Public School in Richmond]

Description: Postcard image of the Public School, Richmond, Texas. Two and a half story brick building. Group of people are standing near the northeast corner of the building. A person is leaning out of the middle, bottom story window.
Date: 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Dinner guests at the George Ranch House.]

Description: Photograph (copy) of dinner guests at the George Ranch House. A table was set up outside of the ranch house (back of house on left of photograph). View is of the corner of the table with seven older women seen seated and eating dessert. A child can partially be seen on bottom right of photograph. An African-American man standing on the other side of the table is wearing a light colored shirt and hat. An African-American man wearing a white shirt and carrying a serving tray can be seen coming… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Students at Richmond Public School in 1887]

Description: Original mounted print on cardboard. Students at Richmond Public School. On the front row there are six girls seated on the left and there are five boys (one sitting and the rest kneeling) to the right of the photo. Students of Richmond Public School (about 1887) are identified as: Back Row: 1. Fanny Lamar 2. Mary Preister 3. ? 4. Mattie Bell 5. Reg. Dyer 6. ? 7. Cecil Dyer 8. ? 9. ? 10. Albert George 11. Bassett Blakely Second Row: 1. Minnie Preister 2. ? 3. Bell Dyer 4. Julia Norwood 5. ?… more
Date: 1887
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Richmond County Jail]

Description: Postcard image of the Richmond County Jail. Two story brick building with bars over windows. Postcard has two wagons in far right corner. Four mules (one with rider) in foreground. Three people are standing in doorway to bottom right.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination of the draw-heads provided with forwardly-projecting portions having curved faces and notches in the rear thereof, bails pivoted centrally on vertical pins passing through the center of the draw-heads, springs exerting a rearward pressure on the rear ends of the bails, and chains secured to the forward ends of the bails to move them in opposition to the pressure of their springs" (lines 78-87).
Date: July 16, 1889
Creator: Neal, Adam S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "in combination with the jaws . . . which are arranged to move laterally and simultaneously . . . each having two side hooks combined with the bar and springs . . . the levers, shaft, pulleys, and the chains which pass over the pulleys and connect the rollers with the jaws" (lines 86-96).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Neal, Adam Sylvester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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