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An Audit Report on the Kinney County Groundwater Conservation District

Description: Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Kinney County Groundwater Conservation District (Distric) has accounting procedures and controls that ensure accurate, timely, and complete financial information is available for making management decisions, ensure it is able to meet its financial obligations, and protects against violations, abuse, and fraud; whether the District achieves its management goals and objectives as outlined in its management plan; and whe… more
Date: January 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas: Brackettville Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Brackettville, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, ranches, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Billiard Table Leveler.

Description: Patent for a new and improved billiard-table leveler. This design consists in "the vertical case having the closed bottom, the open upper end, and provided with the removable plate, the vertical guide-rods extending through openings in the plate, the follower in the upper end of the case and having openings to receive the guide-rods, and provided with an interiorly-threaded opening, the vertical shaft having its lower end stepped in the bottom of the case and journaled in the plate, the said sh… more
Date: May 11, 1886
Creator: Himes, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kinney County

Description: Map of Kinney County, Texas, including the Hill Country region. The roads to Griffin Valley, to Nueces River and Fort McKavett, and to Fort Lancaster and Camp Hudson are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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Oral History Interview with Windy Goodloe, July 30, 2016

Description: Windy Goodloe is a staff member at the museum of the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery Association. Goodloe grew up in Brackettville, spending most of her early life with her grandparents. She recalled being usually one of very few African American students in the local schools, and in particular her relationship with Mexican American students. Goodloe attended Spellman College in Atlanta, but did not complete her degree; after several years in Atlanta, she returned to Brackettville to care for he… more
Date: July 30, 2016
Duration: 57 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Wall, James & Goodlow, Wendy
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Wrench.

Description: Patent for "a wrench adapted to engage the nut of the wheel hub, so that on turning the wheel the nut will unscrew from the threaded end of the axle." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Stambaugh, Julius Locke
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle.

Description: Patent for a wheel-vehicle structure used on farm, road, country or the city, including illustrations. Vehicle with pivot axles that eliminate the jerking and shaking caused by common vehicles.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Drew, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for a improved gate latch that has "a permanent member carried structure and a swingable member carried structure, which co-act, and are operated by spring action for locking the swingable members against swinging movement".
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Ramirez, Simon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carriage Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved carriage wheel. This design "consists in so constructing a carriage-wheel that the members thereof may be made interchangeable, and the whole may be made in a factory and shipped thence 'knocked down,' to be assembled and put together at any point to which the same may be shipped, not requiring, as is usual, the aid of a blacksmith or other skilled laborer" (lines 8-15).
Date: November 8, 1881
Creator: Clarke, George R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kinney County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1909
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Intrenching-Tool.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in intrenching tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Hoffmann, Arnold G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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