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Quemado 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 1:62500
Date: 1959
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 28.88 -100.62
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[World War II-Era Joke - October 19, 1943]

Description: A World War II-era joke in the form of a letter. The correspondence is addressed to Hebbronville Local Board No. 1, from Frank Garcia Castillo, Eagle Pass, Texas, and dated October 19, 1943. The letter begins, "I received your classification card in which you give me 4-F. But I don't like it . . . ." It is typewritten on Selective Service System letterhead.
Date: October 19, 1943
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Maverick County, Texas.

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.
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Cutlery-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a cutlery sharpener "which may be used for dressing down the edges of knives," "may be employed in the kitchen to rapidly condition kitchen knives," (line 16, lines 18-20) and create different types of beveled edges on a blade. It provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Ball, Ewart M.
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Speed-Recorder.

Description: Patent for recording instruments to use in connection with automobiles to record the speed of conveyance during the period of travel.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Bowdish, Harry A.
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Tie Mold

Description: Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ignition System for Gas-Engines.

Description: Patent for improvements to ignition system for gas internal combustion engines that is simple, compact and serves as "a combination coil, distributer, interrupter and condenser for use in connection with storage batteries and low tensioned magnetos not timed to the engine shaft."
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Kelly, James
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Shoe-Tongue Support.

Description: Patent for a shoe tongue with a backing support to keep it from slipping down or sideways, which is held in place by the shoelaces.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Thomas, Robert P.
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Railway-Tie.

Description: Patent for an invention relating to the railway tie that aims to produce "a tie which is adapted to be constructed of reinforced concrete" (lines 14-16). Other objectives and illustrations of invention are included.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
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Shawl Strap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).
Date: August 19, 1884
Creator: Tharp, William B.
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Railroad-Tie

Description: Patent for a railroad tie “which is so constructed as to enable the rails to have resiliency” (lines 16-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 9, 1915
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
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Newspaper-File.

Description: Patent for improvements in newspaper-holders by using a long metallic “piece bent at its upper end to form a spring and a means of suspension for the holder, and also bent at its lower end to form a similar spring and a hand-grasp, an upper and a lower loop connected to the bent ends of the metallic piece, and a retaining-tongue pivotally connected to the lower loop and having a hooked end for engaging the upper loop” (lines 82-89) to hold the newspaper. Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
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