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Delta County, States of Texas.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Delta County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and drilling locations. A legend indicating locations of wells, rigs ups or drilling sites, oil wells, gas wells, and dry holes is included in the lower-right corner. A handwritten note has been made on the published map in pencil to denote the addition of Dowdle Crossing. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (2000 varas to 1/2 of an inch).
Date: 1900
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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[News Clip: Delta Funeral]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: September 3, 1988
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Adjustable Table.

Description: Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1899
Creator: Congour, Presley Alpheus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churning-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in churning-machines by using a “pair of slotted crank-arms, which having pitman-rods adjustably connected thereto and to the upper portion of the churn-dasher, so that by adjusting the pitman-rods longitudinally of the crank-arms the vertical movement or throw of the dasher may be regulated at will.” (Lines 17-22.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Strickland, Orien S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists "[i]n a trap comprising a well having ingress-openings in diametrically-opposite sides, the combination, with a cage constructed to move vertically in the said well, of plates mounted in ways and constructed to slide past and cover the said openings and having connection with the cage to counterbalance the same" (lines 86-93).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: McLeod, Charlie Mike
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a content chopping device with an adjustable lever and cutters. The cotton chopper can be attached to different cultivator frames (farm equipment) and adjusted to chop or thin out different rows of cotton stalks (or other plants).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Adams, Joe B. & Miller, Lawrence M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes Pin or Retainer.

Description: Patent for a clothes pin, "preferably" made from non-corrosive wire, that can be moved along a clothesline while remaining clamped to laundry. It has the ability to hold clothing of varying thicknesses.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Tillman, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pin

Description: Patent for clothes pin with illustration attached. This pin was created to allow ease shifting of clothes hanging from the clothe line. Additionally the clothes pin does not pinch the clothes it holds in place.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: McKinney, Arthur C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Trading Card: White Crappie]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Cooper Lake State Park (Doctor's Creek Unit), depicting a person's hand holding a white crappie fish by its mouth in front of a body of water. There is information about the species on the back.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic knee-pad, to protect the clothing and relieve pain of workers who kneel for prolonged periods of time.
Date: December 6, 1921
Creator: Shelton, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Clothes-Pin

Description: Patent for an improvement in clothes pins where the pin is formed from one single piece of resilient wire.
Date: October 12, 1915
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Tillman, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Door-Check.

Description: Patent for a door check with improvements to device operation and movement control, with illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Kinard, Chester E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knockdown Seat.

Description: Patent for seats which are easy to set up and take down as temporary seating for events and which can be folded up in small pieces for storage.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Garrison, Thomas Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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