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[Abbott's Grove Texas Historical Commission marker]

Description: Photograph of a metal historical marker created by the Texas Historical Commission about Abbott's Grove located in Old City Park in Hillsboro, Texas. The marker is black and in a rectangular shape with a rounded top depicting the shape of the Texas state. Four paragraphs of white text are included on the marker about Abbott's Grove. The park's grassy field and trees are visible behind the sign.
Date: April 25, 2021
Creator: Keelin, Russell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.017980 -97.123151
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Caster.

Description: Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: April 19, 1881
Creator: Custer, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and Feeder for Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for a "simple and efficient apparatus for conveying seed-cotton from a wagon or other source of supply, to one or more gins or gin feeders, said apparatus being adapted, at the same time, to thoroughly clean the seed-cotton and to deliver it to the gins or feeders in the desired quantities in a uniform manner, and in loose and uncompacted condition" (lines 14-21).
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Littlefield, Thomas E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton: "provide a simple, cheap and efficient apparatus for taking seed cotton from a wagon, or other source of supply cleaning it, and delivering it in the desired quantity and in a suitable condition for ginning to one or more gins or gin feeders" (lines 13-18).
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Littlefield, Thomas E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter

Description: Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Cathey, Thomas Jefferson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Cotton card on display at the Hill County Cell Block Museum in Hillsboro, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a wooden cotton card on display at the Hill County Cell Block Museum in Hillsboro, Texas. The cotton card has an inscription on it that reads, "The Only Genuine; Old Whittemore Patent No. 10 Cotton; Watson-Williams Mfg. Co.; Leicester, Mass." There is also a handwritten inscription to the left that reads, "H10, $2.00, I." Some cotton is seen inside the two cards and there is a folded piece of paper on the table in front of the card that states, "Cotton Cards."
Date: April 7, 2012
Creator: Keelin, Russell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.012947 -97.129775
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Device for Making Castings.

Description: Patent for "making castings of various kinds, and more especially for making castings for dental use" (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Davison, Hugh M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher.

Description: Patent for an improvement in drop-pilots or cow-catchers for street or steam-railways to allow the cow-catcher to stay higher above the track and be dropped in an emergency to catch large objects and prevent them from being trapped under the wheels. The improvement also contains a device for raising and lowering the cow-catcher, a mechanism for operating the brakes and whistle interdependently, and a single lever for the operator to use to control the various mechanisms.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Maxfield, Nelson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Rake.

Description: Patent for an improvement on a revolving hay-rake that is simple, economic, and easily manipulated. It can move backwards as well as forward, and the teeth can turn freely. The ground pressure of the teeth can be adjusted.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Lunday, Isaac G.
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[Letter from Texas Department of Education to Joshua Calhoun Howell, April 10, 1889]

Description: Letter from the Texas Department of Education to Joshua Calhoun Howell on April 10, 1889. The letter renews Howell's teaching certification. Included are the envelope the letter came in and a paper detailing rules for conducting the examination of candidates for teacher's certificates.
Date: April 10, 1889
Creator: Texas. State Department of Education.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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[News Clip: 18-Wheelers]

Description: B-roll video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 10, 1975
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Itasca doctor]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a reception for Dr. Clark C. Campbell, a 72 year old practicing doctor in Itasca.
Date: April 26, 1961
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Battle]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a Civil War reenactment. The biennial Confederate Encampment took place at Hill College on this day.
Date: April 30, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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