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Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press

Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

[Three Photographs of the Farming Process]

Description: Scrapbook page of three photographs. The first shows a group of women around a table of halved grapefruits. The second photo shows a group of men standing next to containers of onions near a train. The third photo is of the interior of the Harlingen Pumping Plant.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Man, Girl, and Dog on Farm]

Description: Postcard of a man wearing suspenders and a straw hat standing in the middle of a cotton field with a young girl in a light-colored dress and a dog. The girl is standing in the foreground with the dog on the left and the man is behind her on the left. More fields and houses are visible in the distant background and a text on the front of the postcard reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm. Harlingen, Tex. Cotton Planted APr. 20. Photo. July 25, 08. Producing 15 Bales per acre."
Date: July 25, 1908
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

Hand-Transplanter

Description: Patent for a "manually operated device, adapted for the manipulation of small plants, during the transplanting of the same, and the thinning out of closely growing plants" (lines 9-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Thompson, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Killer Bees]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 9, 1991, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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