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[News Script: Oil tank fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire destroying eight oil storage tanks and two warehouse building in Gonzales, Texas.
Date: September 13, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

PIPE - GRAB.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in pipe-graps for the purpose of "raising and lowering pipe and tools used in drilling oil-wells" (line 8-10), including illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Matula, Valentine
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pie-Plate Lifter

Description: Patent for a pie plate lifter used to handle pie plates or other utensils should they be too hot. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Blue, Henry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Couch-Bed.

Description: Patent for a couch-bed, which can be folded out into a single or double bed or have a reclining back on the couch. It also has a shelf pullout for use as bedside table that is stored in the bottom of the couch.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Hunter, Emily
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: McGillivray, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boiler

Description: Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hensley, Frank Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Tie.

Description: Patent for a railroad tie made of sand and cement and threaded with barbed wire.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Joynt, Dudley Layng
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Ward, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

An Audit Report on the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District: A Pilot Project

Description: Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District is currently operational, based on District performance under its management plan and compliance with basic statutory requirements for groundwater districts.
Date: July 1999
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Two young women (in center) and two young men.]

Description: Photograph of two young women (in center) and two young men (one to right and one to the left) Young women are wearing light-colored printed dresses and hats. Woman on right has dark-colored belt at her waist. The women are touching a book on a table in front of them. Photo (oval) is mounted on cardboard. Back of cardboard is pink and in purple ink (stamped) reads: Theod Koellmann, Artist, Photographer, Gonzales, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Koellmann, Theod
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Gonzales County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Gonzales County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil to denote the addition of Mill Road, Bastrop Road, Columbus Road, San Antonia Road, and a road to Halletsville, compiled from photographs from the 1850s and 1860s. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1920
Creator: Matzow, Fr & Giles, J. Bascom
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

San Antonio - San Felipe Road

Description: Map of the San Antonio Road, a main route which passed through San Felipe, Texas, showing towns, rivers, creeks, and blocks of land. Map includes a compass rose and scale bar in the lower-left corner. Scale [ca. 1:887,040] (14 miles to the inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: Luling Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Luling, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, roads and highways, railroads, boundaries, rivers, creeks, churches, and schools. The blank portions of the map correspond to the map of the San Marco Quadrangle. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1946
Creator: Reineck, R. H.; Seitz, R. C.; Murphy, T. F.; Schultz, J. T. & Fisher, W. A.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Caldwell and Surrounding Counties: Texas]

Description: Road map of portions of Blanco, Hays, Travis, Comal, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Bastrop, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, Lavaca, and Gonzales Counties, showing towns, roads, railroads, mountains, post offices, rivers, creek, and springs. No scale information given.
Date: unknown
Creator: Luer, A.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

La Bahia Road

Description: Map of the historic La Bahía Road, showing counties, towns, creeks, rivers, and blocks of land. Map includes compass rose and scale bar in the lower-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640] (24 miles to the inch or 3 miles to 1/8 of an inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Map of the Old San Antonio Road]

Description: Map of the San Antonio Road, a main route which passed through San Felipe, Texas, showing towns, rivers, creeks, and blocks of land. Map includes a compass rose and scale bar in the lower-left corner. Scale [ca. 1:887,040] (14 miles to the inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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