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Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin

Description: A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.
Date: 1887/1963
Creator: Anglin, Michael W.; Anglin, Reba; Barnett, Robert & Barnett, Patricia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Finis Earing "Red" Fitzgerald, First Fire Chief of Childress, Texas]

Description: Photograph of Finis Earing "Red" Fitzgerald, the first Fire Chief of Childress, Texas. Chief Fitzgerald is dressed in formal attire for his portrait. He is wearing a three piece suit, a collared shirt, tie, and a hat. His badge is pinned to his vest and is barely visible underneath his jacket. The portrait captures only the Chief's head, shoulders, and the top half of his torso. Chief Fitzgerald is posed looking straight ahead.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bartlett
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

Mouse Guard for Pianos

Description: Patent for a pivoting flap device to block access of mice to the interior of the piano through the space beneath the pedals.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Bell, Silas D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mouse-Guard for Pianos.

Description: Patent for "an upright device for closing the opening in the front of a piano directly below a pedal to thereby render the piano mouse proof" (lines 8-11). The device utilizes spring tension to operate.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Bell, Silas D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail-Joint.

Description: Patent for improvements in rail joints. A patent for a boltless, interlocking rail joint that is noiseless.
Date: February 3, 1914
Creator: Bell, Silas D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998

Description: Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, a physician from Kerrville, Texas, who also served as the city and Kerr County health officer. Dr. Bacon discusses his family history, as well as his education, medical career, brief stint in the Air Force, and general town life in Kerrville. While working at Peterson Hospital in Kerrville, he treated trauma victims from car accidents on Highway 27. In the Air Force, he briefly practiced psychiatry, served as a prison doctor, and finally switched to obstetr… more
Date: March 3, 1998
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Bacon, Dan Wallace
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with Wanda Marie Fannin Henderson, October 27, 1999

Description: Interview with Wanda Marie Fannin Henderson resident of Kerrville, Texas. She mentions that her husband Temple Henderson's ancestors came to Kerr County from Tennessee. Mrs. Henderson relates how she ended up in Kerrville, focusing on her family history and immediate family's various activities, including 4-H and other agricultural activities. She mentions her childhood asthma, identifies local businesses and areas of interest, and details her involvement in the community. Prior to the intervie… more
Date: October 27, 1999
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Henderson, Wanda Fannin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Painting of AT-11

Description: Photograph of a painting entitled "Childress Training Days" with a Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan flying over Childress Army Air Field, Texas. Childress, Texas is visible in the background behind the plane.
Date: 1944
Creator: Broome, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

[Letter from Mrs. H. L. Chapman about an Incident on the Highway, July 5, 1961]

Description: Letter from Mrs. H. L. Chapman to the Childress District Director of the Texas State Highway Department; She explains an incident that happened on a highway near a construction area between her husband, who was driving with her and their children, and the operator of one of the construction machines.
Date: July 5, 1961
Creator: Chapman, Mrs. H. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Chest for Piston-Valves.

Description: Patent for a valve chest "fitted for the reception and operation of a piston valve, easily applying to a piston cylinder of a locomotive in place of a removed slide-valve chest without loss of the cylinder, adapting to use superheated steam and high pressure." (lines 11-19).
Date: May 23, 1916
Creator: Dawson, Lance L. & Roach, John L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[A family on a porch]

Description: Photograph of a small family seated and standing on their porch of their house that is covered with a fresh blanket of snow. Other homes in the background are visible along the horizon. Handwriting on the back of the photograph reads, "Byrd Sr."
Date: [1886..1913]
Creator: Doscher, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Map of Childress, Texas, 1890]

Description: Map of Childress, Texas in 1890 drawn by T. M. Fowler of Morrisville, PA. The map includes five reference points: "court house," "public school," "Baptist church," "jail," and "rail road station."
Date: unknown
Creator: Fowler, T. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

Regional Water Plan: Region A (Panhandle), 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Panhandle Region describing water supply locations and suppliers by county, the state of the water supply in the area, forecasts for future usage numbers, management and conservation plans for both suppliers and users in each county, drought plans, impacts of implementation of the water plan, and the plan making process.
Date: November 17, 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Altus

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:100000
Date: 1985
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.75 -99.50
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Altus

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:100000
Date: 1990
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.75 -99.50
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arlie Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1984
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.69 -100.06
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arlie Quadrangle

Description: Satellite image topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.69 -100.06
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arlie Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 2012
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.69 -100.06
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Arlie Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 1985
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.69 -100.06
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle L Ranch Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1981
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 34.31 -100.19
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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