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[Clipping: Female vets saluted with memorial]

Description: Newspaper clippings of an article about plans for a memorial honoring WASP veterans and other women who served in the military. The article includes a brief description of the group's service in WWII and photograph of an architect's model of the planned memorial. On the back of the clippings are advertisements for furniture and parts of other articles.
Date: October 18, 1997
Creator: Pisano, Marina
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Combined Shoot-Board and Squaring-Box.

Description: Patent for a combined shoot-board and squaring-box meant to square and shave "the edges of stereotype and other printing plates; ant to this end the invention contemplates a device of this character that will be of an exceedingly simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, while at the same time providing for an easy and accurate manipulation of the plates being operated upon" (lines 10-17).
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Owen, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn Planting Attachment for Plows.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn-planting attachment for plows. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such an attachment, which may be secured to the rear end of the beam of a common breaking-plow, having a wheel running in the furrow operating the dropping mechanism" (lines 22-28).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Aten, Frank L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator-Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements in cultivator-plow through the positioning and connection of parts. Adjustable plow for different cultivating functions and different crops, especially for cotton. Illustration and materials recommendations included.
Date: March 18, 1902
Creator: Sheffield, James A. D. & Sheffield, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Dallas Firefighter Class 138 #1]

Description: Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from September 1969 to December 1969 posing outside a building in two rows. In this colored photograph the members are standing in two rows dressed in ironed navy blue uniforms, with silver buttons, silver trimming near the cufflinks, a silver badge on their upper left chest, and a black hat with a silver trim going around the head and a bursting star silver pin in the middle of the hat. This image is more zoomed out in color then the photo with a reddis… more
Date: December 18, 1969
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

Door Operating and Locking Device.

Description: Patent for an electric door or gate operating and locking device that allows for automatically opening and closing a door or gate and locking it when it is open or closed. This device may be turned off if necessary to allow for manually moving the door or gate and may be installed cheaply in preexisting structures.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Education building]

Description: Photograph of a group of people near an Education Building. The photograph was taken at the time of the Dedication of the Siceloff Auditorium on May 18, 1950.
Date: May 18, 1950
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

Floor Selector-Switch for Electric Door-Operating Apparatus

Description: Patent for floor selector switch for electric door operating apparatus situated at the floor/landing near the elevator shaft to close and open the elevator gate/door. It also allows the elevator operator to use a switch to operate the elevator gate/door, and also lock the gate/door so it cannot be opened by accident. All said to work quickly and quietly.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Pitts, Hood
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Fort Sam Houston Bulletin 134]

Description: Bulletin reprinting a communication from the U. S. Army Adjutant General's Office outlining rules for submitting Form 1-Bs for War Risk Insurance: forms submitted with the same date as an earlier form from the same soldier would have to be amended with a later date to be accepted.
Date: October 18, 1918
Creator: United States. War Department.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for a new and improved horseshoe. This design "has for its objects, first, to fasten a shoe to the hoof in such a manner that it will be firmly held in place, and in a great measure overcome the jar and concussion incident to traveling on hard roads; second, in so providing a fastening that the shoe can be secured to the hoof and removed at will without the aid of a skilled work[person] and without the use of nails" (lines 18-26).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Robertson, Alexander W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lone Ranger

Description: Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore, addresses myriad of young male and female fans, as well as parents
Date: January 18, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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[News Clip: Airplane crash]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 18, 1990
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Barricade Man]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police investigation.
Date: September 18, 1997, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pye]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the lack of diversity and the stereotypes about SMU university. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: August 18, 1988, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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