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Animal-Trap.

Description: Patent for improvements in bait-trigger traps for catching small animals, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 15, 1891
Creator: Edwards, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Annual Deer Hunt with Men from Taft]

Description: Photograph of several hunters posing together with a dog and several deer carcasses. The hunters wear hats, jackets, and long pants, with some along the front of the group kneeling. Three in the group, near the front at center, pose with a dog with a light-colored coat and dark spots. Behind the hunters are several deer carcasses mounted on a long board, their heads raised upward. The hunters stand in a field of grass, behind a car.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Description: Patent for machine to exterminate boll weevils, including illustrations. This device administers insecticide and captures damaged plants and insects.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Henry, William L. & Calloway, Irven E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Game-Retaining Garment

Description: Patent for a garment with detachable areas that allows for the carrying and quick loading of ammunition when hunting game, and is more sanitary and durable than other options.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Cox, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hunting Black Bear and Mountain Lions in the Davis Mountains in the 1940s

Description: Autobiographical paper by George E. Grubb, Sr. telling stories of bear and mountain lion hunts he participated in as a young man in the Davis Mountains. They used bloodhounds as hunting dogs to help them track bears for ranchers all around the area. Sometimes bear cubs were caught and kept as pets. Sometimes the men killed their prey but most of the time the animals got away.
Date: unknown
Creator: Grubb, George E., Sr.
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Hunting Lamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
Date: December 20, 1881
Creator: Brittan, Edward H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Indian Years Coloring Book

Description: Coloring book that provides a brief history of Indian life in Texas, with illustrations of the early Indians that occupied Texas. Images are titled: Making Baskets, Story Telling Time, Hunting with Bow and Arrow, Packing to Move (with a dog travois), Cave Painting, and A Spanish Explorer.
Date: [1990..2015]
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Cultural Resources Program.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Charles B. Moore to Linnet Moore, July 27, 1898]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Charles B. Moore and is addressed to Linnet Moore. In this letter, Moore updates Linnet on the goings-on in Collin County. The news includes: a discussion about not receiving word from Linnet, details on receiving correspondence from Laura Jernigan and Jack, a weather update, community news, updates on going to the horse market, a discussion about Anderson who is much better after falling into John Chandler's well, addition… more
Date: July 27, 1898
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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