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Sectional Shelving

Description: Patent for sectional shelving. This invention is designed to be dismantled for storing and shipping. Illustrations included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Oestreicher, Adolph A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[United States Post Office]

Description: Photograph of the mail sorting area of the new Cleveland Post office in 1955. There are packages wrapped in paper on a shelf. There are clothes on a table to the left of the shelf, and a man stands in front of several other shelves full of books on the far side of the room.
Date: November 1955
Creator: Young, Moon
Partner: Cleveland Historic Society

Store Shelving.

Description: Patent for new and improved store shelving. This design utilizes a hinge whereby the shelving can collapse onto a flat surface, which is otherwise available as storage itself. This design also utilizes wheeled legs for easy transportation and zinc plating so as to partially fire-proof the shelving.
Date: February 27, 1883
Creator: Harris, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Movable Shelving for Stores.

Description: Patent for new and improved shelving. This design "consists of three sections, a central main portion and two half-sections hinged at each end of the main section, said side sections being one half the length of the main section and adapted to fold face inward against the middle section, and the whole supported upon brackets that terminate in caster-rollers, and is removably secured to the store-wall by hooks on the shelving engaging eyes in the wall . . . The object of this invention is to so … more
Date: July 15, 1890
Creator: Thomas, Oscar P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Lamp Shelf for Pianos.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lamp shelf for pianos. This design "consists in an arm pivoted to the back of a music-rack and carrying a lamp-shelf, the arm being arranged to swing outward into a horizontal position, and the shelf being connected with the end of the arm by a pivotal connection, which permits of turning it outward and downward into a horizontal position in front of the plane of the music-rack" (lines 22-30).
Date: August 31, 1886
Creator: Prause, Reinhard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Barrel-Shelf

Description: Patent for barrel shelves which attach to barrels to hold up sacks during filling and fold up when out of use.
Date: May 4, 1909
Creator: Hughes, Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[General Store, Harrison County]

Description: This general store is located in Jonesville, Harrison County. Jonesville was a crossroads and short-line railroad terminal during the county's early history. The store is still in existence. It carried a multitude of items for the home and farm, as this interior photo shows. The building was not modernized beyond electricity, and so has kept its nineteenth century flavor.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marshall Public Library

Two Scientists and Petri Dish

Description: Photograph of two scientists, a man and a woman, looking at a petri dish. The woman is wearing a collared shirt and her hair is pulled back. The man is wearing a button-up shirt and latex gloves. In the background is a shelf covered in bottles and two calenders.
Date: unknown
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Library Exhibit]

Description: Photograph of library exhibit at the Cooke County Fair. In the center, there is a shelf filled with books. On the right, there is a bookshelf shaped like a ladder. Above the shelves, there are two posters with a photograph of a building on each. The poster on the left has several lines spreading out from the building. The poster on the right has several lines leading to other photographs, spreading out from the building. In the foreground, there is a desk with books, papers, and a pair of… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Boyd & Breeding
Partner: Cooke County Library
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