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Churn.

Description: Patent for an automatic butter churn with illustrations.
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Fitzhugh, James, S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of the Wheatly Family]

Description: Photograph of the Wheatly family, four boys and a dog, in a patch of flat grassy area, surrounded by trees. Various cooking and camping supplies are strewn about the area, and two of the boys sit in the horse drawn wagon to the left of the photograph. A hand written note on the back reads, "Wheatly Family, Waco."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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[News Clip: West extra]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 12, 1981
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Group of Children]

Description: Photograph of a group of children. Five boys wearing flat caps sit on the ground in front of a picnic table covered in the remnants of a meal. The rest of the children stand around the table. This photograph was purchased at the Abel estate sale in Waco.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, October 26, 1943]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on October 26, 1943. He details what he's been doing in North Africa, which keeps him busy. He's heard that the food is going to get bad soon, and tells his father he will be sending $30 home every month.
Date: October 26, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Cooking Utensil.

Description: Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Curran, William Ferris
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Group of Hispanic Women Eating at a Table]

Description: Photograph of a group of Hispanic women and girls sitting at a table and eating. The table is set with glasses, utensils, and plates of food. Several of the women and girls, who are wearing frilly dresses and sitting in fold-up chairs, are smiling at the camera. There is a young boy also sitting at the table and looking at the camera on the left-hand side of the image. There is a wall with windows and blinds on the right-hand side of the image, and a piano behind the diners in the background. T… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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[News Clip: Turkey survivors]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 28, 1980, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Thanksgiving Postcard Addressed to Mamie Collins from Leda Bahl, November 25, 1908]

Description: Thanksgiving postcard sent to Mamie Collins from Leda Bahl with an illustration of a turkey pulling a cart with a chef riding on a pumpkin and holding a large knife and fork. There is a lengthy note written on the back of the card from Bahl that reads, in part: "Wish it was mine or I had one like it. Harry is always taking somebody there to..."
Date: November 25, 1908
Creator: Bahl, Leda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

[Thanksgiving Postcard to Mamie Collins from Katharine E. Wheatly, November 24, 1908]

Description: Postcard to Mamie Collins in Central City, Nebraska from Katharine E. Wheatly with an illustration of a large turkey on the front and the caption "I wonder why they are feeding me so lately" printed at the bottom. There is a note from Wheatly on the reverse side that reads: "Dea Miss Mamie, I received all of the pretty little dollies and also the postal, I was sure glad to see you thought of me. I am well again now. How are you? Also how is your sister?"
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Wheatly, Katharine E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

[Letter from Rosa Walston Latimer to James Balke - May 12, 1992]

Description: Letter from Rosa Walston Latimer to James Balke in which she asks him to fill out a questionnaire about Harvey Houses. A note from James Balke to Rosa Walston Latimer is written on the back of the original letter, explaining that she did not include a questionnaire and offering some leads for more information about Harvey Girls.
Date: May 12, 1992
Creator: Latimer, Rosa Walston & Balke, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of Rosa Walston Latimer

[Miniature Stein]

Description: Miniature ceramic drinking stein in an orange marbled pattern, with a hinged, connected metal lid. A small tag attached to the stein says, "German Exhibit Cotton Palace Waco 1912."
Date: unknown
Creator: Texas Cotton Palace
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Jar.

Description: Patent for a jar for thick semi-liquids such as mustard, which has a discharge spout in the side that allows the contents to be used without taking off the lid of the jar.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Barr, George T., Sr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Private Neale W. Pratt]

Description: Postcard image of Private Neale W. Pratt dressed in a light colored shirt, pants, apron and cook's hat. Pratt is positioned in front of a dark colored background with his whole body pictured. Handwritten text states, "Private Neale W. Pratt. Second Cook. A.C.S.C. 30th Balloon Co. Waco."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Improvement in Coffee-Pots

Description: Patent for the design of an improved coffee and tea pot with an internal water reservoir, dripping cup for coffee or tea, gauge for water level, and two separate valves for the hot water and resulting coffee or tea. Includes illustration of both a sectional and horizontal elevation of coffee-pot design.
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: Sherwood, Willis H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp Attachment.

Description: Patent for a lamp attachment that will decrease the likelihood of a lamp explosion and allow liquids to be heated over the lamp. The attachment has a top plate which prevents insects or other debris from igniting and falling into the lamp chimney, therefore decreasing the potential for a lamp explosion. The attachment also has a perforated cylinder that rests on top of the lamp chimney and can support a vessel for heating liquids.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Lehmann, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for an ice-cream freezer which can also be used as a churn, with an improved drum that revolves and its lower half sitting in ice or hot or cold water. It has a central shaft and flat heads on the ends of the drum so it can rotate.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Harton, Thomas Jefferson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive combined ice cream freezer and milk shaker that makes different flavors of ice cream at the same time and can also make a milk shake or lemonade. The machine consists of five receptacles lined up on a frame, with a crank going through the middle of each. The crank mixes the contents of the receptacles.
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Harton, Thomas J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nutcracker.

Description: Patent for a nutcracker, which does not crush the nut inside.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Fort, Foster W. & Cruger, Harry T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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