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Steam, Air, or Water Engine.

Description: Patent for simplifying the construction of steam-engines allowing them efficiently use the power of steam" gas, vapor or air in varying positions, vertical, horizontal, or inclined.
Date: May 9, 1882
Creator: Adams, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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

Description: An analytical study of the Ogallala Aquifer in Lipscomb County, Texas. Includes information on the nature of the Ogallala Aquifer, procedures used to obtain projections, results of the study including saturated thickness and volume of water in the Ogallala Aquifer, potential well yield of the Ogallala Aquifer, pumping lifts in the Ogallala Aquifer, and pumpage from the Ogallala Aquifer. Includes various tables of data collected.
Date: February 1981
Creator: Bell, Ann E. & Morrison, Shelly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from J. W. Berry to Claude D. White, October 13, 1909]

Description: Letter from J. W. Berry to Claude White in which Mr. Berry says he ran into John Cox who told him that Claude owes him money for a mare. Mr. Berry is said that he is "sorry that the trade turned out as it did." He offers to pay Cox for Claude and send him the receipt. He also updates him on the rain and availability of water. A deposit slip for the Melissa State Bank is also included.
Date: October 3, 1909
Creator: Berry, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Water-Elevator.

Description: Patent for a water-elevator that elevates huge amounts of water for ranches and irrigating. The elevator "can be easily operated by the direct pull of a single animal, which passes and repasses the well during the operation of raising and lowering the well bucket, and by this means contemplates dispersing with the necessity of winding drums or windlasses and horse powers, which are usually employed in connection with water elevators" (lines 16-23).
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: Campbell, George William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Street-Sprinkling Appratus.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive street-sprinkling apparatus. It can be steam, electric, cable, or horse powered, and can sprinkle a wide or narrow street. "The invention consists in a vehicle preferably running upon a railway-track and provided with a water-tank and with independent sprinklers or final-distributors or sets of distributors, the one located at an end or the ends of the vehicle and discharging by gravity, and the other at the sides thereof, toward an end or the ends, and discharging und… more
Date: November 5, 1895
Creator: Campbell, Louis W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Brenda Joyce dipping water from a Bucket]

Description: Photograph of Brenda Joyce at the Locust Grove school drinking from the water bucket in the classroom. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Additional photos and information can be forund in the pdf document "Joe Clark HBSS Scrapbook" pg 17. Going to School in the Tennessee Hills, The Detroit News Pictorial. May 11, 1941. 196u Location of Original Unknown 16x20 Photographic Color print. A copy of an oil painting of Wade Hampton Clark, Sr. Father of Joe Clark, HBSS.. Painting was made by former Predident… more
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Drop by Drop]

Description: The image was created as part of the Story of Jack Daniel's Distillery for the Gardner Advertising Company. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Originally shot as a concept illustrating that Jack Daniel's whiskey is "Charcoal-Mellowed Drop by Drop" Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7305-1
Date: October 1, 1956
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farming]

Description: Photograph of a man using a hoe on the side of a hill. In the image, the man is walking through the farming trenches on a hill. At the bottom of the hill are trees and a large watering hole before going up a hill covered with trees.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Fetching Water From a Spout]

Description: Photograph of a boy filling a bucket with water. In the image, the boy is perched on the side of the water holding a bucket while it fills with water from the water spout. Another bucket sits to his left already full under the canopy of trees.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man filling up a glass of water]

Description: Photograph of an older man filling up a glass of water from a sink outside. The man stands on a porch about thirty feet away from the camera and bends over to reach the water in front of him. The water comes from a curved pipe that runs off camera to the left, and a large house stands behind the man in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of two women smoking]

Description: Photograph of two women, sitting on either side of a bed, smoking cigarettes. Sitting on the bed is a bag, a piece of paper, a pack of cigarettes, and an ashtray. On the bedside table is a glass of water and a telephone. On the wall behind the bed are two pieces of framed artwork. On the bedframe is a lamp.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Receiving Water Rations]

Description: Photograph of men, woman, and children receiving two cartons of Drinking Water from the back of a truck. In the image, a line has formed for the cartons where two men inside the truck are handling the crates, a mother is consoling a crying baby in her arms, another mother, wearing bandages on her face, is fixing her son's pants. Two men and an injured woman are walking with their rations towards the camera. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Water Delivery to Florida Hurricane Disaster Victims (Re-c… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Receiving Water Rations]

Description: Photograph of men, woman, and children receiving two cartons of Drinking Water from the back of a truck. In the image, a line has formed for the cartons where two men inside the truck are handling the crates, a mother is consoling a crying baby in her arms, another mother, wearing bandages on her face, is fixing her son's pants. Two men and an injured woman are walking with their rations towards the camera. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Water Delivery to Florida Hurricane Disaster Victims (Re-… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Water Droplets]

Description: Photograph of small drops of liquid landing in a large body of water. The image was created as part of the Story of Jack Daniel's Distillery for the Gardner Advertising Company.
Date: October 1, 1956
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Ave

Description: Photograph of a portion of the business area in Kemah, Texas along Clear Creek during a typical high tide. Water from Clear Creek has filled several parking lots and has crossed the street in areas. Several cars are parked at various businesses. A motel, seafood restaurant, tire shop, grocery store, and auto parts store are pictured.
Date: April 20, 1973
Creator: Clear Lake Photography
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Texas Ave at high tide

Description: Photograph of a portion of the business area in Kemah, Texas along Clear Creek during a typical high tide. Several cars are parked in the lot of a lounge and pharmacy on Texas Ave. The water from Clear Creek has filled the parking lot and has reached the street.
Date: April 20, 1973
Creator: Clear Lake Photography
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for an efficient refrigerator meant to preserve meat, dairy, and produce. The refrigerator uses evaporating water to cool the food, not ice. There are inner and outer layers, a large water pan with vertical drip openings, and inner screen walls.
Date: April 17, 1894
Creator: Denson, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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