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Karnes City Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 28.88 -97.88
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Karnes Co.

Description: Cadastral map of Karnes County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale indicated.
Date: 1870
Creator: Arlitt, F. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Karnes Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Karnes County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in red pencil to add roads and towns not originally published on the map. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1921
Creator: Matzow, Fr. & Giles, J. Bascom
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter for planting cotton seed, which can be used with a walking or wheeled planter and automatically drops seeds when moving forward but not backward, and which can have the mechanism turned off while in transit.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Vaughn, George Washington
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plowshare Attachment.

Description: Patent for a plowshare attachment, which will allow a new replacement part when this part is no longer in working condition.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Hickle, Pryor H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boiler Feeder and Indicator

Description: Patent for an improvement automatic steam-boiler feeders which controls the feed pump and actuates an alarm whistle (lines 21-23).
Date: November 8, 1892
Creator: Newman, Prentice A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace Wire Fastening for Wire Fences.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brace-wire fastening for wire fences. This design consists "[i]n a fence, the combination, with the panel wires, of the braces with their ends hooked upon one and the same side of the upper and lower panel-wires, and said braces being stepped to receive and applied to the opposite side of the intermediate panel-wires, and the tri-armed or T-shaped clasps with their arms embracing the panel-wires and the braces at their points of intersection" (lines 81-89).
Date: September 22, 1885
Creator: Lott, Arthur
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the fence-wires, the stay-rods having their lower ends fitted in the ground and provided with a series of steps or rests fitted to the fence wires, a series of tie-wires securing the fence-wires to said steps, and braces twisted around the stay-rods near the upper ends thereof and having their ends secured to buried anchors" (lines 59-66).
Date: February 7, 1888
Creator: Lott, Arthur
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gear-Wheel.

Description: Patent for the construction of a wheel and gear rim that converts any ordinary vehicle wheel into a gear wheel.
Date: June 8, 1915
Creator: Biela, Valentine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench

Description: Patent for an improved model of wrench, designed to work upon the bore of tubes, thimbles, and other forms of pipes. This invention improves on the construction of the wrench, allowing it to be inserted in the end of a tube, and when rotated, be effectively engaged with the tube to turn the same.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Brown, Charley S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Foot Piece for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for foot pieces of "simple and improved construction whereby the cultivator blade will be held in ground engaging position resiliently with sufficient force to maintain it properly in position in varying conditions of the soil" (lines 10-15). The foot pieces allow for variation in the force with which the blade is maintained in ground, the blade being "quickly and conveniently changed" (lines 24-25).
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Myers, Jim H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sanitary Drinking-Fountain.

Description: Patent for improvement in sanitary drinking fountains by providing a device in which the “discharge nozzle of the fountain is protected against contact with the mouth of the user, thereby enhance the sanitary nature of the fountain” (lines 16-20). Illustration is included.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Moore, Isham S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Umbrella.

Description: Patent for an improved folding umbrella consisting of folding ribs and braces. Additionally, the staff of the umbrella is separable so that the staff can be shortened when the umbrella is closed.
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Allen, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Traction-Wheel

Description: Patent for a traction wheel with a removable gripping surface which will prevent the wheel from slipping on roads or slick surfaces.
Date: January 19, 1915
Creator: Biela, Valentine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mud Guard.

Description: Patent for an attachable mud guard for any vehicle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Johnson, Tom L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Escapee Composite 12]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 2000
Duration: 6 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: NBC 5 (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[1.00 Merchandise Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." This coin is silver-colored and says, "Good for 1.00 in Merchandise" on one side; on the other it has the text: "Peoples Supply Company, General Merchandise, Kenedy, Texas."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Peoples Supply Company Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." This coin is silver-colored and says, "Good for 25 in Merchandise" on one side; on the other it has the text: "Peoples Supply Company, General Merchandise, Kenedy, Texas."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Peoples Supply Company Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." This coin is silver-colored and says, "Good for 10 in Merchandise" on one side; on the other it has the text: "Peoples Supply Company, General Merchandise, Kenedy, Texas."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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