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Barbless wire

Barbless ribbon wire from holding pens at a ranch north of Crystal City, Texas.

Date: unknown

Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Photograph of Farm Equipment and Debris]

Photograph of a piece of farm equipment with large tires covered and surrounded by debris after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. There are wires across the top of the photograph. The debris includes many pieces of wooden beams and there are cinder blocks in the background.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McMurry, J. W.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Overturned Train After Tornado]

Photograph of an overturned train after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The view is of the underside of the train. In the foreground are railroad tracks and piles of debris that include wooden beams, pieces of metal, and wires.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Men in Debris After Tornado]

Photograph of two men standing on top of a metal beam in front of a damaged building after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. The building's windows are blown out. One man wear a leather jacket and hat and is pointing at the ground. The man behind him wears overalls and a cap. All over the ground is a pile of debris that includes bricks, beams, and wire.

Date: April 9, 1947

Creator: McCurry, J. W.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photographs of Flood Scenes in Fort Worth, Texas]

Photographs of two scenes after a flood in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1915. The top photograph shows four men, one woman and a dog surrounding a metal canister with a spout. They are all holding white cups and saucers and kneeling. Two of the boys are wearing overalls and three are wearing hats. The woman is wearing a long dress, apron and bonnet. The bottom photograph is looking down on several flooded streets. There is a large wooden tower on the right side of the frame, several poles and wires and … more

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Blue Mountain

This photograph shows a mountain in the distance. In the foreground, there appears to be the edge of an unpaved road and telephone wires up above. Between the road and the mountain, there is a flat area covered in desert scrub. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Blue Mountain west of Ft. Davis Tex. June 1929 by H. A. King."

Date: June 1929

Creator: King, H. A.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Wire Fence.

Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.

Date: November 8, 1853

Creator: Meriwether, William H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace Wire Fastening for Wire Fences.

Patent for a new and improved brace-wire fastening for wire fences. This design consists "[i]n a fence, the combination, with the panel wires, of the braces with their ends hooked upon one and the same side of the upper and lower panel-wires, and said braces being stepped to receive and applied to the opposite side of the intermediate panel-wires, and the tri-armed or T-shaped clasps with their arms embracing the panel-wires and the braces at their points of intersection" (lines 81-89).

Date: September 22, 1885

Creator: Lott, Arthur

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Working Implement.

Patent for an invention that stretches fencing wire that is being nailed or stapled into a post. The implement is also used for twisted two wires together.

Date: November 17, 1891

Creator: Murphy, George Washington

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a stretcher that connects wires in fence construction and repair. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 8, 1891

Creator: Wright, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and efficient wire stretcher that aids in fence-building, tightening loose wires, cutting wires, and tying broken wires. The stretcher is similar in appearance to a wrench that can be taken apart in order to properly utilize the tool.

Date: June 13, 1893

Creator: McKinney, John Wilson

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher "which may readily be employed for stretching wires to a post for stapling, for stretching or drawing the ends of wires together for tying and for drawing out or removing staples from a post" (lines 12-16).

Date: August 1, 1893

Creator: Palmer, Joshua C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an inexpensive, strong, and simple wire stretcher that can be used quickly to stretch and secure wires. It also connects wires of different heights, and stretches wires to different tensions.

Date: October 17, 1893

Creator: Gillis, John H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher that can easily stretch a wire in a series on a fence in such a way that the stretcher doesn't need to brace against a post.

Date: January 9, 1894

Creator: Sparkman, James S.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher that "may be readily employed for taking up the slack of a fence wire at a point between fence posts" (lines 13-15). It also cuts wire and removes staples.

Date: April 17, 1894

Creator: Hughs, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretching Spool-Carrier.

Patent for a wire-stretching spool-carrier that can be easily mounted to the back of a wagon and can stretch wires to the desired amount of tension. Coils are on the mount on the wagon.

Date: August 14, 1894

Creator: Williams, Thomas P.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher and Splicer.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire stretcher and splicer that can easily connect to a post and use it as an anchor while stretching wire. The invention also draws wires together and re-connects them. A crank makes the device easy to use.

Date: September 4, 1894

Creator: Marshall, Otto

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Coiling Machine.

Patent for a wire-coiling machine that improves on a previous patent (No. 296,806), that was granted to Wildermuth. The improvement allows for either left- or right-handed use, by making the crank movable to either side and by "providing the upper end of the post at opposite sides with stationary cutter blades and a single movable cutter adapted to be shifted for operation with either one of the said fixed cutters" (lines 28-32).

Date: October 9, 1894

Creator: Crowder, George Washington

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.

Date: October 9, 1894

Creator: Austin, John W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).

Date: October 30, 1894

Creator: Crisp, James E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a wire-tightener that stretches "the wire after it has been secured to the post, and to take up any slack which may exist therein, owing to causes arising subsequent to the first stretching of the wires" (lines 10-13). It has similar features of other wire-tightener but is simple and efficient.

Date: January 1, 1895

Creator: Glenn, John William

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool.

Patent for a wire stretching and splicing tool used when repairing barbed wire and other wire fences. It connects the ends of broken wires by bringing them together and twisting them. It has a wire gripping device, an adjustable end that corresponds to the wire gripper, a way to separate the above listed parts and bring them back together again, and a clamping device.

Date: April 30, 1895

Creator: la Bauve, Odelon Joseph

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a simple, economical, and effictive wire-stretcher that uses "the fence-post as the fulcrum for the implement or tool in using the latter to stretch the wires longitudinally from post to post, and to provide a simple hand implement or tool by which a single person can rapidly string the fence-wires from post to post, stretch the wires, and kink or twist the same to take up slack" (lines 19-26).

Date: July 23, 1895

Creator: Cardwell, William C.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Tightening Implement.

Patent for a wire-tightening implement meant to tightening wires in fences by making loops or twists in the wires. It has two handles forming jaws around a fulcrum, the jaws have flat faces with parallel grooves, and the jaws coming together at their ends. The grooves in the jaws form different sized loops.

Date: October 15, 1895

Creator: West, James M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department