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[Marianne and soldier collect for the Red Cross]

Description: A female figure representing Marianne is accompanied by a wounded soldier. They collect for the Red Cross. Marianne is dressed in a style to suggest the French Revolution, wearing a blue, white, and red skirt, a uniform jacket worn as a cape, and a long blue and red cap. She holds a Red Cross collecting tin in one hand and a small blue, white, and red keg under her other arm. She guides a wounded soldier, his head bandaged. He has one arm on Marianne’s shoulder, and the other holds a cane. The … more
Date: 1916
Creator: Willette, Adolphe Léon, 1857-1926.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[World War One Small Box Gas Mask]

Description: World War One-era "small box respirator" gas mask, consisting of a canvas or cloth face piece, with inset glass or resin eye lenses, and straps that wrap around the back of the head. The front of the mask has a valve located behind a cloth-covered tube that goes over the mouth and attaches to a small yellow metal box containing activated charcoal (made of peach pits or the pits from other stone fruits). The wearer would have breathed only through the mouth, inhaling air scrubbed clean by the ch… more
Date: [1914..1918]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manual Arts Building, Exterior]

Description: Photograph of the Manual Arts Building for industrial arts. The two story brick building was built in 1914. The image shows bushes crowding the entrance, and power lines crossing across the sky. In 1974, the building was demolished.
Date: [1914..1974]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manual Arts Building, Exterior]

Description: Photograph of the Manual Arts Building for industrial arts. The two story brick building was built in 1914. The image shows bushes crowding the entrance, and power lines crossing across the sky. In 1974, the building was demolished.
Date: [1914..1974]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Championship Girls Basketball Team (1918) from Richmond]

Description: Photograph of the Championship Girls Basketball Team (1918) from Richmond High School. Women are dressed in light colored shirts with big white collars. Five of the women have scarves around their collars. They are seated on the steps of the school with a basketball with R.H.S. Champions 1918 printed on the ball. Team members identified (written on back of photo in pencil) from left to right as: Bottom row: Lucile Rich, Rosalie Daughtery, Marguerite Wessendorff. Top row: Johnny Winder, Coach -… more
Date: 1918
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Gin.

Description: Patent for improved cotton gins through the "construction and arrangement of the roll box and the ginning devices" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Non-Explosive Oil-Container.

Description: Patent for a protective screen of refractory filaments for "containers holding inflammable, explosive fluids such as naphtha, benzin, gasolene, etc." (lines 10-12)
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Watch-Charm.

Description: Patent for watch charms or badges with "interchangeable emblems" (lines 11-12) to facilitate on-demand charm or badge creation through a separate stock of emblem carriers and the "interchangeable emblems."
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Friedman, Bernhard Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Pot.

Description: Patent for coffee pot attachment to prevent coffee grounds from getting into the coffee pot's spout.
Date: January 2, 1912
Creator: Voyles, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flexible Wire Mat.

Description: Patent for a flexible wire mat that is portable, loosely woven to shake out dirt and mud, and which prevents the edges form curling up to trip people.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Shelton, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Headlight.

Description: Patent for "an electric head-light which will adjust the carbons of the arc lamp without the usual vibration" (lines 12-14) and be more durable and efficient.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Dooley, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

CHURN

Description: Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: HARRISON, DAVID M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Man and Woman in Mountains; Four Men; Oscar Temple and Woman; Man and Woman]

Description: Copy negative of four pictures from 1916 and/or 1917 pasted in a scrapbook. One is of a man and woman standing in front of a snowy wooded mountain with another person in the background. One is of four men in front of some woods. One is of Oscar Temple and a woman sitting in the grass in front of a tree with houses in the background. The other is of Oscar Temple and a woman standing in an open area with buildings in the background.
Date: 1916~
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Well Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a well mechanism with an overhung vertical drive pulley which functions as a bearing and oil reservoir for improved lubrication of the bearings; also, improved pump construction and shaft support.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Gate-Operating Mechanisms" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Wilson, Simeon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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