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Crosby County.

Description: Survey map of Crosby County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale information given.
Date: January 1879
Creator: Stakemann, M.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Crosby County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Crosby County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published in pencil. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1927
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of West Texas Picnic]

Description: Photograph of three women and a man eating in a field with four horses. Written on the back of the photo, "A pioneer West Texas picnic party, Misses Mary, Annie and Lelia Smith, and George Mayes eating watermelon which washed down the Blanco Canyon during a flood in 1899."
Date: 1899
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

COTTON CHOPPER

Description: Patent for a simple arrangement to be drawn along a row of standing plants in order to chop or cut out the superfluous plants in the row.
Date: January 7, 1914
Creator: Charles Lomax
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Analytical Study of the Ogallala Aquifer in Crosby County, Texas: Projections of Saturated Thickness, Volume of Water in Storage, Pumpage Rates, Pumping Lifts, and Well Yields

Description: Report on the Ogallala Aquifer in Crosby County, Texas including the historic use of the aquifer, the projected water volume, and projections of water availability in the future.
Date: September 1976
Creator: Wyatt, A. Wayne; Bell, Ann E. & Morrison, Shelly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Cooler

Description: Patent for a water cooler that keeps the cooling ice separated from the water to be cooled by means of a receptacle that houses the ice.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Williams, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Underwaist.

Description: Patent for an underwaist specifically designed for juveniles that provides for more comfortable supporting straps crossing the back and chest at the shoulders, extending to the leg to clasp the stockings with the purpose of holding them up, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Ida Bassett
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Holder for Sliding Doors and Windows

Description: Patent for a clutch mechanism for sliding doors and windows that ensures the panel can be moved in both directions freely but will not disengage of it's own accord, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Benson, Jarome F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swing Attachment for Cuspidors.

Description: Patent for improved swing attachment for cuspidors in which “a cuspidor may be pivotally connected with a seat or equivalent support, held in horizontal position while connected, and rendered capable of being swung out from or beneath the seat and expeditiously and conveniently removed when necessary.” (Lines 11-17) Illustration is included.
Date: July 28, 1891
Creator: Horseman, Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flash-Eliminator.

Description: Patent for flash eliminators for machine guns that will "eliminate the flash which is co-incident with the firing of fire arms at night which allows location of a position weapon by the enemy." (lines 14-17)
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Moyers, Oscar C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6545

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Compensation of the Sheriff of Crosby County the appointment of the deputy sheriffs and their compensation.
Date: April 27, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crosby County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1927
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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