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[News Script: Kicker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 12:00pm.
Date: April 8, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Saw-Filing Machine

Description: Patent for a Saw-Filing Machine. "This invention relates to saw-filing machines; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective device of this character which is adapted to sharpen with accuracy and rapidity the teeth of different kinds of saws." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Description: Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Box for Presses

Description: Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Galbraith, Oscar B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.

Description: Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Barrel-Stand.

Description: Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: McClary, Rufus E. & Gray, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buggy-Top Attachment.

Description: Patent for improvements in "the construction of buggy-top attachments and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be easily and quickly attached to and detached from the top of a buggy or other vehicle and capable of forming a complete extension of the same to protect the occupants of the vehicle from the weather" (lines 11-18), including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Stockton, Harris C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a new cotton chopper with improvements that have the ability to raise or lower the height of the blades and keep them nearly horizontal to the ground, including illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Smith, Gilbert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Pot.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in coffee plots for "hot water to drain through the coffee" (line 11 - 12).
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Cummings, Jas. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portrait of Man

Description: Copy negative of a full length studio portrait of Frank Mayes wearing a suit, standing at a rustic fence and gate with a background made to look like the outdoors.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Postcard of Pueblo Gold and Country Club]

Description: Postcard of the Pueblo Golf and Country Club in Pueblo, Colorado. A printed note below the picture says "Pueblo, a Thriving City With a Lasting Prosperity." A handwritten note on the back of the postcard, addressed to Mrs. Edward Bartley and Miss Lou Rayburn says, "I met Mr. and Mrs. Chapman at a big party given in their honor. They asked to be remembered to you. I have had so many lonely mt. trips - it is beautiful here and so cool. Lois Meade."
Date: August 1951
Creator: Meade, Lois
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Marvin Methodist Church; Church #1

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of churches. The first is of the Marvin Methodist Church building near Ely, Texas with a telephone pole, viewed from front left. The second is of another church in Marvin or Ely Texas with bushes in front and a house in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Marvin Methodist Church; Church #2

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of churches. The first is of the Marvin Methodist Church building near Ely, Texas with a telephone pole, viewed from front left. The second is of another church in Marvin or Ely Texas with bushes in front and a house in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Headstones; Lady with Headstones, Cemetery

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The first picture, taken in 1957, is of a headstone for a person in the Ely family who was born September 27, 1887 and died April 13, 1903 in a cemetery with other headstones in the background. The second is of Julia Etta Ely Cook standing between two Ely family headstones in the Ely, Texas cemetery with other tombstones and trees in the background. The stone on the right is for F. M. Ely who was born November 20, 1854 and died July 13, 1904.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Headstone, Cemetery

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of headstones for Ely family members in the cemetery in Ely, Texas with other headstones and trees in the background. The stone on the left is for L. W. Ely who was born January 18, 1829 and died May 11, 1904.
Date: 1950~
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Fannin Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Fannin County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Hand drawn lines have been made on the published map in pencil. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1901
Creator: Pressler, C. W. & Legg
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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