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[News Clip: Burglar Explosio]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: January 3, 1988, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Electric Conductor

Description: Patent for electric conductor with switch cord and plug especially designed for use with multiple electrical circuits, as with a telephone switchboard.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Weir, Welby D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Kitts, William Caluway
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

CASH REGISTER.

Description: Patent for improvements in cash-registers for making change and with a recording mechanism for printing amounts for which change is made, including descriptions of the parts of the mechanism and with illustrations.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Woodson, James F. & Lindsay, Oscar L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaner.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton gin saw cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1899
Creator: Mapes, Joseph Calvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Andiron.

Description: Patent for improvement in andirons “which is so arranged as to permit ready access to the fireplace for the purpose of cleaning out the ashes and having a removable fender which is capable of being quickly and readily removed or placed in position to retain the fire and prevent the fire from rolling out the fireplace.” (Lines 47-54.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Cox, John Drew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle-Hook.

Description: Patent for a new buckle hook, specifically a back-band buckle for use with a harness that is "of simple and inexpensive construction designed to firmly grip the back-band or strap of the harness and retain the same in adjusted position" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Reid, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle-Bit.

Description: Patent for a bridle bit that holds and manages vicious horses and that can be adjusted to also fit a calf or colt.
Date: December 19, 1911
Creator: Smith, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace For Heel Sweeps

Description: Patent for a brace to be used with the class of agricultural implements known as 'heelsweeps'. Illustration included.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Ingram, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wood Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Wood County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:166,667] (5000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1914
Creator: Pressler, C. W. & Bramlette, H. M.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of Ada Stagner Collins]

Description: Full-length photograph of Ada Stagner Collins, wearing a light-colored long sleeve button-up blouse, dark skirt and tights, and lace-up boots. The woman sits on a wicker photographer's chair with her right hand propped against her chin, and strung around her neck with a piece of ribbon and tied to her shirt is a pocket watch. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Ada Stagner Collins, Mineola, Texas @ 1904. Married Robert Collins."
Date: 1904
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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