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Texas (Medina County): New Fountain Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of New Foundation, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing roads and highways, towns, pipelines, water bodies, ranches and farms, wells, and landmarks. Relief is shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Handwritten notes have been made at the top of the published map in pencil. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Loving, J. J.; Rehberg, A., Jr. & Jones, T. M.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Medina County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Medina 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 and appear to denote the addition of names and roads. Scale [ca. 1:222,222] (5000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1915
Creator: Bramlette, H. M. & Hedick, Jno. D.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in a link-guide support "pivoted to the underside of the car, the link-guide pivoted to the front end of the support, the spring arranged between the guide and the support, the yoke secured to the car, and the spring supported by said yoke and bearing against the link-guide support" (lines 1-6).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Wash, Thomas Henry & Wash, Nathan Robert Hodge
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Description: Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on … more
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Pluck, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rope-Clamp

Description: Patent for a rope clamp for plungers used in cotton presses. Illustrations included.
Date: August 14, 1911
Creator: Cameron, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements in “gas-machines in which the gas is generated from calcium carbid; in which the gas will be thoroughly washed before passing to the distributing-pipe, thus affording a pure white light, and further to provide a means for running off coal-tar that may gather on the top of the water in the machine.” (Lines 9-18) Illustration is included.
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Metzger, Frederick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for "a truck having operating mechanism changeable to either cotton or corn seeders and in combination therewith a hopper formed in sections, one of which is removable" (lines 14-17).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Droitcourt, Adam
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas: Natalia Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Natalia, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, rivers, creeks, boundaries, gas pipelines, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved auger. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a shank provided with a conveying-screw and the cutters at the lower end of the screw, the sides of the cutters being extended beyond a vertical line drawn across the edges of the screw, and a tube or casing enclosing the screw and connected at its lower end with the cutters, said tube being of less diameter than the cutters and arranged within the outer sides thereof" (lines 56-64).
Date: August 23, 1887
Creator: Tevebaugh, Henry Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carriage Curtain Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved curtain fastener for carriages. This design is "an improvement upon that particular form of curtain-fasteners . . . in which a sleeve or barrel having a rotary and sliding movement on a spring-encircled shank or post is provided with a wing or projection for effecting the connection of said sleeve or barrel with the eyelet or grommet of the curtain . . . which will effectually prevent the accidental disengagement of the curtain" (lines 18-29).
Date: July 12, 1881
Creator: Paschal, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Escort card]

Description: Card asking for permission to escort someone home. Recipient is instructed to tear off the right side of the card if the offer is accepted and the left side if the recipient already has an escort.
Date: unknown
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Globe Book Mark and Interest Tables]

Description: Card printed by "The Globe Co" with a "short method for calculating interest" on one side and a time table "showing the time in days from any day in one month to the corresponding day in any other month" on the other.
Date: unknown
Creator: The Globe Co
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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