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Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton and corn planter that does not put as much pressure on the tongue of the machine as previous models and that allows the plow attachment to be lifted higher off the ground to avoid obstacles.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Goodnight, Frank H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from W. S. Carter to M. O. Laisure, January 4, 1916]

Description: Letter from W. S. Carter to M. O. Laisure discussing that Laisure's inquiry as to the authority to enable the 11th and 12th seniority districts to consolidate. Carter reiterates that Laisure does not have the permissions to authorize the consolidation, and to do so would call for objections from the company.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Carter, W. S.
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Postcard from E. Lucas to Lucy Dodge, October 28, 1917]

Description: Postcard from E. Lucas to Lucy Dodge, discussing the safety of a boxy Lucy sent her, her own illness, and the city of Boerne, Texas. The postcard features a photograph, colored in with ink, of a driveway along the side of a tall sloping hill and the surrounding area. Further down the winding dirt drive, there is a suspension bridge across the road. The environment has lots of scrub brush and small, bushy trees.
Date: October 28, 1917
Creator: Lucas, E.
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[News Script: Tracks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 14, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Map of Peoria, Ill.

Description: Map shows ward boundaries, street names, lot and house numbers, landowners, additions, subdivisions, railroads, steamboat landings and fairgrounds; structures and some businesses annotated in pencil. Includes note, street index, and key to named additions and subdivisions. Scale not given.
Date: [1880..1900]
Creator: Thurlow, E.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[News Script: Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a shooting in Peoria, Illinois. Three men seized a school after robbing a nearby store of a number of guns.
Date: May 2, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Triplets have early birthday party]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Deanna, Debra, and Denise Oddewalt, a set of triplets from Illinois, visiting their aunt and uncle in Fort Worth, who threw them an early birthday party.
Date: June 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: School hostages]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a school hostage situation in Peoria, Illinois. Three gunmen feeling from the police took refuge in St. Cecilia Roman Catholic school and held 23 students and two teachers hostage. None of the students were injured but one of the gunmen was shot to death.
Date: May 1, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Early tournapull Box 3, Museum,B

Description: Photograph of a Model C Tournapull, likely from the 1940s based on similar images found online and "LeTourneau Heavy Equipment" by Eric C. Orlemann. According to him, the Model C was the most popular of the scrapers built by the company.
Date: Date unknown. Likely in the 1940s.
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. A. Shithick - May 14, 1943]

Description: Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. A. Chittick, recorded in the letter as 'Mrs. Thomas Shithick' regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee William Chittick, recorded in the letter as 'William Alfred Shithick'. Letter contains transcribed message to mother from internee broadcast on Radio Tokyo. Letter also contains note dated July 8, 1943 to Mrs. Larsen from Cecelia McKie that asks Mrs. Larsen to forward the message to the P.O.W.'s family, as the letter was returned in the mail… more
Date: May 14, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Model D Tournapull with Model Q Carryall

Description: Photograph of a Model-D Tournapull attached to the Carryall Model Q. According to information found online (https://contract295dev.wpenginepowered.com/classic-machines/model-d-tournapull/), the company built this combination, an "air transportable earthmover," for the U.S. Army from 1942-1946, during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, LeTourneau built over 600 of these machines and continued production after the war. This photograph was clearly meant for a brochure or catalog, since the backgroun… more
Date: 1942/1946
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library
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