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[News Script: Fire follow]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that destroyed a lumber yard in Fort Worth.

Date: May 18, 1960

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Process of Saturating

Patent for a process saturating wood with preservatives. Illustration included.

Date: November 7, 1905

Creator: Jones, William C.; Stratford, William R. J.; Byrnes, Frank B. & Nixon, Edward J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Emergency Stop-Valve For Stopping Runaway Carriages In Sawmills

Patent for an emergency stop valve for stopping runaway carriages in sawmills. This "invention is designed to provide a new and useful improvement in mechanism for stopping a runaway carriage in a sawmill, where the carriage is moved back and forth by a piston in a long cylinder" (lines 11-15). Illustration included.

Date: June 21, 1904

Creator: Edwards, Daniel R.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drying Kiln

Patent for a kiln to be used as a drying chamber for drying and curing of lumber. Illustrations included.

Date: May 21, 1907

Creator: Stephens, William E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Dolly.

Patent for a lumber dolly, which has an anti-tilting device that can be used while loading or unloading the dolly.

Date: August 3, 1909

Creator: Lott, Andrew Gains

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Calculator

Patent for a lumber calculator that has printed calculations for quickly determining the amount of board feet in a pile of lumber.

Date: April 25, 1911

Creator: Stalcup, James F.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Exterior, Lumber Co.

Copy negative of Hubert Henry Buchanan and Clint Rutherford standing in front of the General Lumber Co. with three other unknown men. Two men stand with shovels in their hands.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Exterior, Lumber Co.

Copy negative of the exterior of General Lumber Company. Hubert Henry and Elnora Brewer Buchanan and one unknown man are standing out front of the store. The unknown man and Hubert Henry are facing each other and both are wearing hats.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Exterior, Lumber Co.

Copy negative of the exterior of General Lumber Company. Hubert Henry Buchanan, Clint Rutherford and three unknown men are standing out front of the store. All of their backs are against the store windows.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Outside; Exterior, Lumber Co.

1 copy negative of two images. Image A is of Hubert Henry Buchanan standing by a river. He is wearing a hat and has his pants rolled up to about mid-calf. Image B is of Hubert Henry Buchanan standing in front of the General Lumber Company.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Suction Dredge Hull]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 23) is of lumber on the ground with a fenced area in the background. The second image (numbered 34) is of men working with lumber in a yard. Handwritten text on the images identify them both as: "Garza Dam Starting Hull for 20" Suction Dredge" taken on 10-17-24 and 10-24-24.

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Shops and Suction Dredge]

Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 35) is of a yard with buildings, cars, and lumber. The second image is of a wooden frame being built in a yard. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Shops and Grounds for Building Dredge" taken on 10-24-24, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Building Hull for 20" Suction Dredge" taken on 10-31-24.

Date: 1924

Creator: Dallas Water Utilities

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

Lumber-Trimmer.

Patent for an improved lumber-trimmer that has "a suitable carriage or number of carriages for conveying the lumber a series of swinging frames, which carry belted saws and also supporting-wheels, which wheels, if not tripped, will ride over the lumber, carrying the saws up with them out of an operative position, but which wheels, if tripped, will ride over the lumber, but permit the suspended saws to remain in operative position to trim the lumber at different points in its length, as may be d… more

Date: December 3, 1895

Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Log-Carrier.

Patent for a log-carrier with an improved construction from a previous patent (No. 539,380). Improvements include a change in "the angle of strain of the draft-chain as the lever approaches the horizontal position...when the load is elevated" (lines 34-37). It also maintains "a uniform leverage without the use of guide-rollers or other means" (lines 54-56), and balances the sliding tongue so that "the team is relieved of the weight thereof" (line 62).

Date: December 8, 1896

Creator: Carroll, Joseph Alexander

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Truck.

Patent for a simple and durable lumber truck that is "arranged to conveniently load and carry lumber to and from kilns and other places" (lines 9-11). It has double flanged wheels in independent frames that are connected by crossbars.

Date: March 28, 1893

Creator: Dodge, Edward

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to Clara Fentress, May 6, 1865]

Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara requesting various things, including food, linens and a horse. He also discusses the lumber market and mentions being ill.

Date: May 6, 1865

Item Type: Letter

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Longview Sawmill]

Photograph of the interior of the Longview Sawmill in Longview, Texas. The sawmill was located at South Mobberly Avenue before it was later moved to a different location. There are several workers pictured inside the sawmill. The photograph is mounted on tan cardboard.

Date: 1890~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Longview Public Library

[Longview Lumber Race]

Photograph of lumber haulers using mules to haul their lumber loads through downtown Longview, Texas. Different companies competed to haul the largest load to the sawmill, and the winner who hauled the largest load the fastest received a prize.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 32.494963 -94.739254

Partner: Longview Public Library