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[News Script: Oil tank fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire destroying eight oil storage tanks and two warehouse building in Gonzales, Texas.
Date: September 13, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Syringe

Description: Patent for a syringe. This invention is meant for use with animals to perform artificial insemination. Illustrations included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Brookes, Robert C.
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PIPE - GRAB.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in pipe-graps for the purpose of "raising and lowering pipe and tools used in drilling oil-wells" (line 8-10), including illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Matula, Valentine
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Tire - Bolt Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved tire-bolt wrench. This design is to "provide a new and improved wrench which is simple and durable in construction" (line 7 - 9).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Willey, Lewis C.
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Seed-Cotton Cleaner

Description: Patent for a seed-cotton cleaner that has an adapted cleaner attached to it. The cleaner allows the operator to choose whether or not to pass cotton through the cleaner on its way to a cotton gin.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Flowers, Malon I.
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Pie-Plate Lifter

Description: Patent for a pie plate lifter used to handle pie plates or other utensils should they be too hot. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Blue, Henry L.
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Couch-Bed.

Description: Patent for a couch-bed, which can be folded out into a single or double bed or have a reclining back on the couch. It also has a shelf pullout for use as bedside table that is stored in the bottom of the couch.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Hunter, Emily
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: McGillivray, William
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Signal Lock For Mail Boxes

Description: Patent for a signal lock for mail boxes. This "invention relates to devices for locking the signals used on house letter-boxes, and has for its object the provision of a signal lock secured to the inside of the mail-box" (lines 9-13). Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Patterson, Samuel & Wiseman, John W.
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Gate-Latch

Description: Patent for the invention relates to improvements in gate-latches. The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of gate-latches and to provide an automatic one adapted to lock the gate when the latter closes and capable of automatically setting itself in proper position for engaging and locking the gate should it be closed instead of open or in position to receive the gate.
Date: May 29, 1900
Creator: Jones, Albert Sidney
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Vehicle-Brake.

Description: Patent for a new and useful vehicle brake, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Ramage, Joseph
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Boiler

Description: Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hensley, Frank Alfred
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Railway-Tie.

Description: Patent for a railroad tie made of sand and cement and threaded with barbed wire.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Joynt, Dudley Layng
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Signal-Lock for Mail-Boxes

Description: Patent for a signal lock for mailboxes used to "indicate the presence or absence of mail matter in the box" (lines 10-11).
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Patterson, Samuel & Wiseman, John W.
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Ward, Lee
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An Audit Report on the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District: A Pilot Project

Description: Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District is currently operational, based on District performance under its management plan and compliance with basic statutory requirements for groundwater districts.
Date: July 1999
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
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[Two young women (in center) and two young men.]

Description: Photograph of two young women (in center) and two young men (one to right and one to the left) Young women are wearing light-colored printed dresses and hats. Woman on right has dark-colored belt at her waist. The women are touching a book on a table in front of them. Photo (oval) is mounted on cardboard. Back of cardboard is pink and in purple ink (stamped) reads: Theod Koellmann, Artist, Photographer, Gonzales, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Koellmann, Theod
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Gonzales County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Gonzales County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil to denote the addition of Mill Road, Bastrop Road, Columbus Road, San Antonia Road, and a road to Halletsville, compiled from photographs from the 1850s and 1860s. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1920
Creator: Matzow, Fr & Giles, J. Bascom
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
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