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Oral History Interview with Betty Joyce Bivens, June 13, 2015

Description: Interview with Betty Joyce Bivens, a retired educator from Fort Worth, Texas. In her interview, she describes her childhood experiences, growing up during the Jim Crow period, her education, her work at General Dynamics and in the public school system, community engagement, church leadership, and voter registration,
Date: June 13, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Bivens, Betty Joyce & Robles, David
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Sash-Holder.

Description: Patent for a builders' hardware used to hold a sash in a closed to the adjacent stile so that the sash cannot be opened from the outside.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Boynton, Amos W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rocking Chair.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rocking chair. This design "relates to an improvement in rocking chairs; and it consists in a detachable rocker and a clamp for securing the rocker to the legs of an ordinary chair for the purpose of converting the latter into a rocking chair" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Brown, Frederick H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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