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[Allied Agency]

Description: Photograph of the Allied Agency building in Decatur, Texas. The photographer and several cars are reflected in the glass of the windows and door.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

Ant Trap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "consists in a frame which is adapted to be placed over the ant-hill, so as to surround the entrance thereto, and provided with parallel surrounding flanges or sides which converge to each other and lead to an exit-spout . . . [and] is to provide an ant-trap which is adapted to catch the ants both on their attempt to leave the hill or to return to it, whereby the entire colony may be exterminated" (lines 9-21).
Date: January 4, 1887
Creator: Wise, David
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Storm damage]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about storm damage in Wise County. The story focuses on Betty Robinson whose home sustained significant damage and includes interviews with Robinson and her family who are helping to clean up the wreckage. An unidentified man speaks about damage in the area. This footage was broadcast at 5pm.
Date: December 3, 1999
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-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: Storm damage]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about storm damage in Wise County. This b-roll footage shows the family of Betty Robinson retrieving items from a storm-damaged home. This footage was broadcast at 6pm.
Date: December 3, 1999
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-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: Storm Damage]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about storm damage in Wise County. This footage was broadcast at 1pm.
Date: December 3, 1993
Duration: 27 seconds
Creator: KXAS-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: Lake levels]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: May 1, 1990
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Combination-Tool.

Description: Patent for a combination tool for pipe fitters and mechanics. The tool can be combined with a number of separate tools, including a die-stock and tap. The tool is foldable when not in used.
Date: December 19, 1911
Creator: Richardson, Charlie N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[5-Cent Merchandise Token]

Description: One of a collection of 244 miscellaneous "Texas Trade Tokens." This coin is silver-colored and says, "Good for 5 [cents] in Merchandise" on one side, with a name and place written on the reverse: B. B. Poore, Bridgeport, Texas.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Wise County

Description: Cadastral map of Wise County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Notes are made in red ink. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Clod-Crusher

Description: This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Weems, Thomas J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Old bones]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the excavation of mammoth tusks in Wise County.
Date: January 26, 1965
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sheet-Placing Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in sheet-placing machines for pushing and pulling devices to their correct orientation of oil tanks (lines 10-13) roof construction without the possibility of injury to mechanics.
Date: March 13, 1923
Creator: Brock, Verita Belle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching and Tying Device.

Description: Patent for a "device capable of enabling the wires of a fence after the latter has been erected or during the construction thereof to be readily tightening to the desired tension without necessitating the removal of staples or other devices for fastening the fence-wires to the posts." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Kirby, Thomas W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon Axle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved axle. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with an axle having a seat at its outer end and a seat located in from said outer end, of the spindle having its shank provided with a threaded inner end, and nuts turned on said inner end on opposite sides of the inner seat, by which the spindle may be adjusted to and held in any desired position" (lines 79-85).
Date: May 1, 1888
Creator: Blevens, Nathan W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon-Top.

Description: Patent for improvements in wagon-bodies by providing "a simple and effective means for tightening the canvas covering over the bows of wagon or other vehicle-bodies” (lines 17-19), includes illustration.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: James, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting Device.

Description: Patent for a new and improved jack. This design "relates to devices for raising fence-corners in repairing the same, and for lifting weights generally; and the object of [the] invention is to produce a simple and powerful device whereby a single operator can greatly increase his [or her] capacity for lifting heavy objects" (lines 8-14).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: McNabb, James M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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