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Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.

Description: Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Dreyer, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Skiing squirrel]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6 P.M.
Date: July 19, 1988
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Squirrel Hunting

Description: Copy negative of a trio of men holding hunting rifles seated outdoors in front of Robert Rasmussen's house. There is a line of squirrel carcasses hanging by their hind legs on a string attached to the house's wall. From left to right, they have been identified as Thurston Clinkscales, C. A. Holderidge, and Robert "Speck" Rasmussen. Thurston pets a dog that stands between him and C. A. Holderidge. There is a second dog facing away from the camera climbing on Robert's thigh.
Date: unknown
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Navy Man Coaxing a Squirrel to Come Closer]

Description: Photograph of a man in a Navy uniform with his hand held out to a chunky squirrel, coaxing it to come closer. A building and trees are visible in the background. The man is crouching and facing away from the camera, his side profile visible, at the edge of a sidewalk. The squirrel is on a grassy field or lawn to his left.
Date: 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Postcard of Squirrel Cartoon]

Description: Postcard with cartoon of a man and woman looking at a squirrel with a nut in the foreground, with a woman playing tennis in the background. Text on the cartoon says "Rather nutty here- But I like it!" A handwritten note addressed to Miss Hellen Aten says "Give my regards to the girls. Hello Hellen, Just a line I am at White Howen on a visit up at George Sister. Still thinking of you girls come and see me. Marie K."
Date: September 1942
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Albino squirrel costume at Sycamore Hall]

Description: Photograph of a person wearing an albino squirrel costume and standing on the second to the top step of the Sycamore Hall side entrance staircase. A UNT sign is visible on the brick wall behind the costumed person, as well as a large campus tree visible in the background of the photo.
Date: February 25, 2022
Creator: Faulder, Ryan
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Squirrel]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hunt for an aggressive squirrel who bit two people at an Azle rest home.
Date: September 15, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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