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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Baugh, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ribbon and Lace Show Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a new and improved showcase for merchants. This design obviates "the necessity of frequent handling of the goods . . . and much time is saved in the exhibition of them, and in taking account of stock, and the cabinet aids in selling the goods, as they are exhibited by it to a greater advantage than when laid out upon the counter in boxes or kept in boxes placed in an ordinary show-case" (lines 80-87).
Date: September 19, 1882
Creator: Lowry, Lucien P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Axle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved axle. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with an axle having a seat at its outer end and a seat located in from said outer end, of the spindle having its shank provided with a threaded inner end, and nuts turned on said inner end on opposite sides of the inner seat, by which the spindle may be adjusted to and held in any desired position" (lines 79-85).
Date: May 1, 1888
Creator: Blevens, Nathan W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Stretching and Removing Fence Wires.

Description: Patent for a new and improved machine for stretching and removing fence wires. This design "is to provide a simple, effective, and inexpensive machine for stretching the wires of fences along the fence-posts, and straining the wires taut while they are being fastened to the posts, and also for removing the wires from the posts when required, as in removing or resetting a fence" (lines 8-14).
Date: January 8, 1884
Creator: Killough, John N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "the combination of the disks or sections connected by the central bar, the oppositely-pointing lever-arms, the transverse pin fitting into corresponding openings in the disks or sections on one side of the central bar, the locking-pin adapted to fit into any two corresponding openings of the concentric series of openings made in the disks, and a rope or similar device connecting the wire to be stretched with the disks and th… more
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Boyd, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Beauchamp Siblings]

Description: Postcard of the Beauchamp siblings, (from left to right) Oluff Beauchamp (14 years old), Mary Caroline Beauchamp Saam (8 years old), Sarah Ellen Beauchamp Totten (12 years old).
Date: 1910
Partner: Midwestern State University

[News Script: Aurora]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the director of the International UFO Bureau, who says that metal fragments found near Aurora are of earthly origin and are not unusual at all.
Date: June 8, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Flying saucer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about International Flying Object Bureau of Oklahoma City visiting Wise County to investigate a possible landing site.
Date: March 25, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Aurora saucer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the director of the International UFO Bureau, Inc who says his investigators have found no evidence that an unidentified flying object crashed near Wise county town of America.
Date: June 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Boyd 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 1:24,000
Date: 1973
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boyd Quadrangle

Description: Satellite image 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 1:24,000
Date: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boyd 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 1:24000
Date: 1961
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boyd 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 1:24000
Date: 1969
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boyd 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 1:24000
Date: 2013
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sunset 4-d 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 1:48000
Date: 1924
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boyd 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 1:24000
Date: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.06 -97.56
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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