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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 102, July 1998 - April, 1999

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 541.
Date: 1999
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Texas Petroleum.

Description: This report contains information about the petroleum industry in the state of Texas, including chapters on the history, nature and origin of the resource, as well as oil and gas-bearing formations. The index begins on page 93.
Date: July 1900
Creator: Phillips, William Battle
Partner: UNT Libraries

Animal-Tread.

Description: Patent for improvements in animal-treads when “animal is placed in the tread, the single or double tree being attached to the arm c’, and thus in addition to his weight he will have his strength to operate the tread. The function of the rope and weight is to keep the traces and tree from under the animal’s feet in case he should slack his speed, and thus prevent his tripping.” (Lines 59-66) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Bevil, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adding-Machine.

Description: Patent for an adding-machine meant to "add fixed amounts of money received or to calculate the number of days a laborer has worked or the number of fractions of days" (lines 14-17). Mounted keys have mechanisms that rotate a ratchet wheel or disk. "Secured to the shaft upon which this ratchet wheel or disk is mounted is a rate-indicator, consisting of a disk divided off into radial sections, and also divided by lines running parallel to the circumference of said disk, dividing the same up into … more
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: McElyea, James L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "relates particularly to a combined pipe and nut wrench, and has for its object to provide a wrench of the class described which can be quickly changed to an ordinary wrench . . . [the] invention consists of a shank having a rigid jaw attached thereto, a movable jaw adjustable on the shank and an eccentrically-headed lever pivoted to the rear end of the movable jaw and bearing on the shank adapted to separate the rear end of the movable jaw and … more
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Hooks, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee and Head Block for Saw Mills.

Description: Patent for a new and improved knee and head block. This design consists, "with a saw-mill carriage, of a head-block extending flush with the outer edges of the tracks of said carriage and provided with the usual groove or recess extending the entire length of said head-block, a knee sliding in said groove and provided on its front vertical edge with a recess, and a log-supporter fitting flush within said recess and provided at its lower end with a forwardly-extending lug or projection" (lines 3… more
Date: April 29, 1890
Creator: Willis, George F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Log-Cart.

Description: Patent for a log-cart in which "one end of the log is elevated or drawn up underneath the axle, while the other end drags along on the ground" (lines 14-17). This design is more efficient than other models of log-carts.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Moon, Robert G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Log-Turner

Description: Patent for "that class of log-turners which is operated by power, and has for its object to provide a device that will be quick and positive in its operation" (lines 39-42).
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Ferris, Henry Murry & Gallon, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for a "pump for effectively pumping oil or quicksand from wells troubled with quicksand." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Wintz, James Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hand Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide hand-cultivators constructed in such a manner as to cut up and destroy grass and weeds without throwing the soil around and covering small plants, and without breaking the soil away from around the plants" (lines 16-21).
Date: November 18, 1884
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Revolving Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved revolving plow. This design calls for a cylinder with blades attached radially for "cutting up, breaking, and turning over the soil or turf, in which the cutter blades are freed automatically" (lines 7-10). This plow cuts up, breaks, and turns over earth faster than previous designs.
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Detachable Rubber Heel.

Description: Patent for "a rubber heel tap adapted for detachable connection to the heel of a boot or shoe, and which shall serve to cushion the fall of the heel," and "to provide a corrugated surface upon the face of the heel which shall adapt the same for service as an ice creeper." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 28, 1895
Creator: Williams, Thomas Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Folk Songs

Description: Collection of musical scores, including Anglo-American love songs, ballads, comic songs, spirituals and party songs, as well as Afro-American spirituals and secular songs. The index begins on page 187.
Date: 1950
Creator: Owens, William A.
Partner: UNT Press

[Transcript of letter from Stephen F. Austin to James F. Perry, November 15, 1831]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin to James F. Perry discussing the retrieval of Perry's goods, and reporting that Fisher and Teran may now be collecting duties at Anahuac. Austin also explains why James and Emily should settle at Peach Point, rather than Chocolate Bayou.
Date: November 15, 1831
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6091

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: (1) Division of a County into Commissioners' Precincts. (2) Division of road and bridge fund of a county between the four commissioners.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Hardin County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Hardin County, Texas.
Date: September 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car - Coupling

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in car-couplings. This design "relates to car-couplers of the pivoted-hook type" (line 11 -12).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Chance, Ransom M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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