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Combined Plow and Planter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).

Date: March 8, 1898

Creator: Franklin, George

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Patent for new bailing press that that improves "hay-presses of the full circle or continuous type for baling hay, straw, and the like." (lines 8-10) Illustrations included.

Date: May 1, 1900

Creator: Leineweber, Francis & Welge, Charles

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).

Date: February 21, 1882

Creator: Collins, Charles P.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Pianos or Organs

Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).

Date: August 9, 1892

Creator: Stukes, John M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame.

Patent for a bit-brace with right-angled V-guide frame, with description and illustrations.

Date: June 8, 1897

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bit-Brace.

Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: June 29, 1897

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.

Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).

Date: August 1, 1893

Creator: Dailey, Basil

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "form[s] the central opening of the draw-bar with a tup-bar having rearwardly a spiral spring. The forward end of this tup-bar is inclined forwardly somewhat at an angle at the top, so that when the said bar is pushed forward by the spiral spring at its rear end, the coupling-pin will rest upon this forwardly-projecting end of the bar, while the link will rest beneath, so that in dropping the pin will rest within the link, an… more

Date: December 15, 1885

Creator: McAllister, Sanders F.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Fan.

Patent for a new and improved automatic fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the attaching-plate, the depending rod, the fixed plate on the lower end thereof, the socket arms pivotally connected to said plate at their inner ends, and the fans held in the sockets in said arms, of the plate loosely mounted on the rod above [the] plate, having arms, the rods pivotally connecting the outer ends of said arms, the pitman connected to [another] plate, and the operating crank" (lines 6… more

Date: October 9, 1888

Creator: Goodspeed, Henry

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brace for Boring Holes, &c.

Patent for a brace for boring holes through window sashes. It was invented "to enable [the inventor] the more quickly and better to apply my "sash lock", patented July 19, 1892, and numbered 479,152, but may be used for other purposes" (lines 20-23).

Date: February 13, 1894

Creator: McClellan, Stephen

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an improvement that "relates to that class of cotton-packers which receive cotton from the condenser after ginning and pack it in a box preparatory to being pressed and tied into a bale; and its object is to provide means whereby the cotton may be packed int he box automatically" (lines 8-14).

Date: September 29, 1885

Creator: Hart, Alfred

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for "a machine for planting corn or cotton, that may be attached to almost any kind of plow, simple in construction, easily repaired by an ordinary blacksmith, and capable of use in a satisfactory manner for planing where stumps and rocks would interfere with the operation of machines of ordinary construction" (lines 9-15).

Date: August 31, 1880

Creator: Krüger, Theodore Charles Herman

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker's Wagon.

Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design consists in "the combination of the frame, supporting wheels, cover, side-curtains, troughs, and partitions" (lines 53-55).

Date: May 1, 1883

Creator: Collins, Charles P.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads

Patent for an attachment for a bedstead in order to hold a tray. The invention allows a tray, or trays, to be held over a bed to hold food, drink, or other items closer to the occupant.

Date: October 27, 1914

Creator: Beechie, Simon Alfred

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Pump.

Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.

Date: May 16, 1916

Creator: Runge, Friedrich Albert

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Front of a Building with a Mexican-Style Roof]

Photograph of the front of a Mexican-style building with a shaped roof. The light-bricked building has a double-door entrance with steps leading up to it. There are two long windows on either side of the entrance, and two more windows that are close to the ground. A large tree and the shadow it casts covers most of the building on the right-hand side of the image. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Marcos".

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

[Small Brick House with Two Front Doors]

Photograph of the front of a small brick house with two separate front doors. There is a front porch with steps leading up to the two doors, which are shaded by an awning. There is a window on both sides of the porch. Large bushes and shrubs make up the grassy front yard, and the branches of a tree cover up the top of the image. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Marcos".

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

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Oral History Interview with Ofelia Vasquez-Philo, June 24, 2016

Ofelia Vasquez-Philo was born December 28, 1932 in Seguin, Texas, and was the oldest of nine children. She grew up on Freeman Ranch, in Wimberley, Tx., where her father was the ranch foreman. She married Joe Vasquez, Jr. in 1950 and they raised 7 children in San Marcos. After Joe's death in 1986, she married Harry Philo. Ofelia worked part-time in 1966 at the Office of Community Action. In 1970, she became executive director, a position she would hold until her retirement in 1993. During this … more

Date: June 24, 2016

Duration: 58 minutes 24 seconds

Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Vasquez-Philo, Ofelia

Item Type: Video

Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

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Oral History Interview with Celestino Mendez, June 16, 2016

Mr. Mendez was born and raised in the San Marcos area, where he attended the "Mexican school". He reminisced on the pervasive discrimination against Mexican Americans during his youth. His studies at Texas State were interrupted by the draft during the Korean War years. Mr. Mendez was a member of a political alliance between Mexican Americans, liberal Anglos and African Americans in San Marcos; this coalition, later called Hays County Independent Party, helped elect some of the first minority p… more

Date: June 16, 2016

Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes

Creator: Sinta, Vinicio & Mendez, Celestino

Item Type: Video

Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Boll-Weevil-Exterminating Device.

Patent for a machine that catches insects and their eggs by using beaters and a catch pan as the machine is drawn over crops. The parts are adjustable to adapt to the size of crop rows and crops.

Date: June 7, 1921

Creator: Cape, John M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient wrench device, which is "capable of extracting nails and of being used as a screw-driver without interchanging any of the parts or substituting one part for another" (line 14 - 17).

Date: May 3, 1898

Creator: Weiss, Martin

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench

Patent for a wrench that can also be used as a pipe. Illustrations included.

Date: February 21, 1911

Creator: Green, Eugene

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vulcanizer

Patent for a product that vulcanizes the rubber of tire casings more easily. It holds a combustible fuel for heating and has a curved design to better fit the shape of the tire.

Date: April 17, 1914

Creator: Lawrence, Arthur E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.

Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 4, 1877

Creator: Hart, Alfred

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department