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[News Clip: Church building]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the rapid construction of an educational building in one day at a church in the small town of Milano.
Date: July 29, 1953
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Bow tie

Description: Bow tie in pre-tied type of heavy cotton faille(?) fabric printed with geometric design in dull dark green, blue, purple, black, white, and dull red. Adjustable strap, with metal hook and loop clasp. Designer's label on strap behind bow: "Memphis / Milano" Measurements: Bow: 4 3/4" wide x 2" high. Strap: 5/8" wide.
Date: 1980/1989
Creator: Memphis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Blacksmith's Tongs

Description: Patent for blacksmith's tongs. Used to handle and manipulate different sizes of rods and bars that are round.
Date: April 16, 1918
Creator: Beacham, Charles M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a bale tie buckle where "an internal shoulder adapter to cooperate with the tie or band to prevent the latter from accidentally slipping through the entrance throat in the buckle when the tie is slackened" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Schutz, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aerial Conveyor

Description: Patent for an aerial conveyor, specifically one that relates to "an aerial suspension car for aiding linemen in traveling along a suspended cable" (lines 9-11). It's primary function is to allow a wheeled car to be mounted on a cable and used to transport a person.
Date: August 26, 1919
Creator: Moore, Richard S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tatting-Shuttle

Description: Patent for an improved tatting shuttle. This new shuttle will hold multiple bobbins and shuttles to carry multiple colors of threads.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Wolle, Leonora
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate Latch

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Gate-Latches...fastening means designed more especially for farm gates and which may be used to advantage in swinging closures of any type and for any desired purpose." [lines 5-12]
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: McKnight, Sam B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scoop.

Description: Patent for a ridable shovel with wheels that allows the user to control digging and dumping of scooped loads by footrest operation.
Date: August 19, 1919
Creator: Mitcham, James L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Tie and Fastener

Description: Patent for "a novel and improved rail-tie and fastener which will support and hold the rails in a substantial manner and prevent displacement and spreading thereof, so as to avoid wrecks or accidents and consequent loss of lives and property" (lines 11-16), including illustrations.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Felton, Thomas W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shock Absorber

Description: Patent for "Improvements in Shock Absorbers" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Regenbrecht, Bernhard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent provides for an improved "guiding of the cultivator through the movement of the seat" (lines 17-18). The plow is guided by the driver using the seat and his foot to guide the cultivator and plow.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Wilson, William J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for Cotton Chopper. To help in the aid of chopping cotton instead of using a hoe.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Wilson, William J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Residence of William Sewell Goodhue Wilson]

Description: Photograph of four women outside the two story home of William Sewell Goodhue Wilson (1819-1896) located three miles south of Cameron, Texas. It states the house was built in 1858. Handwritten text and numbers identify the women as 1.Miss Ruby White, 2. Mrs. Martha Kendall, 3. Mrs. Lizzie B. Wilson, 4. the cook. The women are standing in front of the light color picket fence that surrounds the home. The photograph was purchased at the Eichelberger - Harrison estate sale in Waco, Texas.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[First Presbyterian Church in Cameron, Texas]

Description: Postcard image of the First Presbyterian Church in Cameron, Texas. The church is built in the early Gothic style with stained glass windows, rose windows, and pointed archways. On top of the church there is a large spire that is positioned in between pointed steeples. There is handwritten text on back addressed to Mrs. J. L. Andrews of Granbury, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Commericalchrome
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas

Description: Report studying the central Texas region's water resources, with notes that there has been rapid decline and contamination in the area. The aquifer is also being used faster than it can naturally replenish.
Date: January 1990
Creator: Baker, Bernard; Duffin, Gail; Flores, Robert & Lynch, Tad
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Check Written to W. L. Baird]

Description: Citizens National Bank check made out to W. L. Baird, cashier for $190.40 and signed by U. S. Hearrell. The front of the check has two stamps, one with "No." and "F and M" visible and the other stamp reads "Paid Ju[..] 16 1902 Farmers & M[..] Nat'l Bank." The back of the check is stamped "Pay to the order of any bank or banker, Citizens Nat'l Bank Cameron, Texas, W. L. Baird, Cashier."
Date: June 24, 1902
Creator: McAlpine, W. K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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