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Growing up in Texas

Description: Memoir written by Annie Margaret Rankin Warner and Virginia "Jenny" Louise Rankin Marshall of stories on growing up in West Texas from 1866-1995.
Date: 2016
Creator: Rankin Warner, Annie Margaret & Marshall, Virginia R.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Jacksboro stuff]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about the first annual Fort Richardson Frontier Day sponsored by the Jack County Historical Society in Jacksboro, Texas.
Date: May 30, 1964
Duration: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a cattle drive near Jacksboro, Texas and a fire.
Date: September 15, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jacksboro fatalities]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the death of Clarence Ray Wright and Robert Wesley Pope due to a vehicular accident in Jacksboro, Texas.
Date: September 12, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Goat- killing cat hunted]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a resident, who has been having problems with bobcats that have been killing his goats. He asks an animal caller to resolve the issue.
Date: May 11, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Train-Pipe Coupling.

Description: Patent for a coupling for trains air brake hoses/pipes, which automatically connects when train cars are put together.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Felkner, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay Rake

Description: Patent for a hay rake. Illustration included.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Lamkin, Lonzo D. & Smith, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper that thins plants and provides ample space between those plants to achieve mature and plentiful harvest.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Butler, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow

Description: Patent for a harrow to be used with a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Wolfe, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refuse-Crematory.

Description: Patent for an improvement to "crematories or furnaces for burning garbage and other matter" (lines 11-12) that has a combined furnace and garbage chamber with walls of fire-brick or tile.
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Risley, Ward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle Guard and Gate

Description: Patent for cattle guards utilizing a gate normally disposed across a railroad track. This gate is modified for operation by actuation of a moving train approaching the guard from either direction.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Step for Public Carriers

Description: Patent for public carriers such as cars that are designed for transporting passengers, especially steam operated railways. This patent will provide these carriers with a string of steps at each end upon both sides to facilitate ingress and egress. These steps are stationary and for safety terminate a short distance away from the ground.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Car-Step.

Description: Patent for folding steps attached to a railway car or trolley, which are easily operated by the conductor and when folded block the exit of the car to prevent passengers leaving or entering without the steps.
Date: October 29, 1907
Creator: Felkner, William G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Singletree-hook and Trace-Securing Device.

Description: Patent for "singletree-hooks and trace-securing devices, the object being to provide a simple and easily-manipulated device of this character which may be readily attached to the ends of a singletree and will serve to hold the end of a trace in secure engagement with the end of the singletree" (lines 9-15) including illustration.
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: Robinson, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for cotton choppers with a moving hoe-frame. The essential feature of the invention is to secure a special construction and arrangement of chopping blades which are adapted to be adjusted in such a way as to leave a greater or less number of the plants in a row as the chopper is operated.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wichita Falls

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Wichita Falls, Texas, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights and includes a location diagram. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Jack County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Jack County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1925
Creator: Morriss, G. C.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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