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Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: LBJ slowin' down]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about former President Lyndon B. Johnson taking it easy and slow after having a heart attack.
Date: October 12, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: LBJ]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lyndon B. Johnson recovering from a heart attack.
Date: October 12, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Windmill-Regulator

Description: Patent for "improvements in windmill-regulators of that class distinguished by the provision of a movable bucket connected to the regulating-cable of a windmill and communicating with the tank or reservoir supplied by the mill to cause the depression of the bucket for the purpose of throwing the mill out of gear or out of the wind. . .when the level of water in the tank has reached a predetermined point" (lines 8-18).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Stein, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shaft and Pulley Collar.

Description: Patent for a collar for pulleys and shafts with set-screws that protects the set-screws from damage or harming people working with the systems.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Beal, Ephaphras Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Tank.

Description: Patent for improved water-tank of which will provide a construction to prevent leakage, bruising, and warping of the wood and in which water will be kept cool and clean.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Evans, Edwin Fousiiee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fly-Trap

Description: Patent for an insect trap for flies. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Krueger, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Windmill

Description: Patent for "a mill equipped with an automatic governor for regulating the speed of the windmill and for preventing injury to the apparatus by throwing the blades of the wheel into or out of the wind in a manner to secure the most effective operation of the device at all times" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Stein, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Setting Machine.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tire setting machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 4, 1898
Creator: Mathisen, Christian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas: Kerrville Sheet

Description: Topographic map of Kerrville, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, county lines, rivers, creeks, and mountains. Relief shown by contours (interval 50 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1937
Creator: Gannett, Henry; Thompson, A. H. & Fitch, C. H.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Gillespie County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Gillespie County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil to identify Pinta Trail. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1918
Creator: Terrell, O. O.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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