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Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. The invention has "relation to improved means for adjusting the wheels laterally to provide for increasing or diminishing the width of the rows" (lines 13-16).
Date: August 16, 1898
Creator: Kile, William A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Callahan County

Description: Map of Callahan County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The old and new centers of Callahan County are marked on map. Asylum Lands are also marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: August 18, 1859
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Texas & Pacific Railway Depot plaque, Baird

Description: TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION TEXAS OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MEDALLION TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY DEPOT IN 1881, THE FIRST STORY OF THIS BRICK DEPOT WAS BUILT AS A STATION FOR THE TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY. TWO YEARS LATER, A SECOND FLOOR WS ADDED TO THE STRUCTURE, AND THE NEW RAILROAD TOWN OF BAIRD WAS CHOSEN CALLAHAN COUNTY SEAT. THE RENAISSANCE REVIVAL DEPOT, WHICH FEATURES DECORATIVE BRICKWORK, WAS USED BY THE RAILROAD UNTIL 1977. ITS PRESENCE IS A REMINDER OF THE TOWN'S IMPORTANCE AS A SHIPPING POIN… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries

War memorial - Callahan County

Description: on center piece: Dedicated to the memory of those men who gave their lives in the service of their country to preserve our freedom Sponsored by Baird Rebekah lodge no. 112 Erected by Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Cross
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries

War memorial - Callahan County

Description: World War I Thomas H. Aiken Benjamine C. Barclay Eugene C. Bell Mcdonald Bell Bruce B. Bush Thomas G. Brashear Bart Coppinger Roy R. B. D'spain Virgil T. Farrar Leonard M. Grisham John Murray Gunn Norman Johnson Orion A. Keele John B. Mullican W. Tom Peevy Wendell H. Russell John W. Slough Jr. R. Lee Wilson World War II Afton C. Adams Wade Andrews Harrell T. Arledge James C. Bentley Albert H. Bales Dewey Douglas Bennett James A. Bently Lindy Bowen C. A. Burleson Jr. Jimmy Brandon Clarence A. B… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries

Baird street scene

Description: Photograph of a street scene in Baird, Texas. Cars are parked outside buildings up both sides of the street. A tall red building is at the very end of the street.
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries

War memorial - Callahan County

Description: ROY L. JOBE TEXAS THOL KENT ROY B. KENDRICK ADRIAN KIRKPATRICK GORDON U. LAWRENCE LUTHER C. MARTIN LEONARD WEATHERS McINTOSH MORRIS A. MILSTEAD JAMES C. MONROE ROBERT NEPVEU DUB NEEL HOMER NEITHERCUTT FLOYD E. NEWTON WAYLAND E. NORWOOD BILL D. ODOM ARTHUR A. PARISHER MARSHALL PHILLIPS MARBY L. POTTER BOBBY PYLE BOBBY JOE PURVIS JOHN ELMER RAY JAMES L. RAWSON JOE B. ROSS WILLIARD RUTLEDGE CARL L. SHIPP W. M. (MUTT) SLAUGHTER MARVIN RAY SMITH DEWARD SMITH JACK P. SHRADER RUFUS C. SHRUM EVERETT NE… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: News Briefs (Boy Essay Winner)]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a story covering a news story about Charles Young winning a trip to New York City by writing an essay about the importance of baseball. Title from script.
Date: August 17, 1951
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Callahan County memorial plaque

Description: Photograph of a memorial plaque in Callahan County. It says: "Callahan County, Formed from Bexar Territory, created February 1, 1858, recreated August 21, 1876, organized July 3, 1877. Named in honor of James H. Callahan, 1812-1856, Soldier in the Texas Revolution, Captain of the Texas Rangers. County seat, Callahan City, 1877; Belle plain, 1877-1883; Baird, since. Two early military roads, the Chisholm Trail, and the first government telegraph line traversed this region."
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries

Confederate Memorial, Callahan County

Description: Photograph of the historic marker for Camp Pecan in Baird, Texas. The stone marker is on the courthouse lawn; buildings are visible in the background. Text: Camp Pecan C. S. A. This Civil War camp of the Texas Frontier Regiment was located 21 mi. southeast established in 1862 as one of a line of posts a day's horseback ride apart. The number of men guarding the frontier were few. Trouble came from all directions with Indian threats and raids from the west and plundering renegades and deserter… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.394862664230764 -99.40056633306574
Partner: UNT Libraries
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