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Automatic Switch Indicator

Description: Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Coffin, Edward F.; Shaw, Carey & Green, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be un… more
Date: April 23, 1889
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua & Lowrey, Andrew Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Courthouse]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about federal judge Leo Brewster who signed into an order amended classroom integration plan which formally ends months of legal debate over whether or not first grade students in the Fort Worth school district should be bussed.
Date: August 23, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Alex Bradford to William Denzil Grogan - November 23, 1944]

Description: Letter from Alex Bradford to Wm. Denzil Grogan discussing his recent experiences after leaving Aldershot to join the No. 1 Canadian Tunneling Company and later the British army in 1941. After the attack on Peral Harbor, Mr. Bradford touches upon his request to transfer to reserve status, allowing for him to join U.S. forces. Finally, Mr. Bradford mentions that he is back in the United States and provides his mailing address.
Date: November 23, 1944
Creator: Bradford, Alex
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran
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