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[Woman sitting next to a man in office]

Description: Photograph of a woman sitting behind a desk next to a man. The man points at the open files in front of them. On the desk there are stacks of papers, an ashtray, a telephone, a ruler, and a pen. Behind them, a typewriter and a wall decoration are visible. Both look directly into the camera.
Date: January 24, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photo of a woman in an office]

Description: Photograph of a woman in an office looking directly at the camera. She is sitting at a desk with her hands folded on top. On the desk there are open files in front of her, an ashtray, a telephone, a ruler, a pen, and stacks of papers. Behind her, a typewriter and a wall decoration are visible.
Date: January 24, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dinosaur Footprints 7]

Description: Photograph of dinosaur footprints along Blanco River. There is sitting water gathered in the footprints and there is a ruler placed on the ground beside them. A round object made of wood is located in the top left corner of the photo.
Date: 1982
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.

Description: Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: McFarland, Charles M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Typewriter on a Desk]

Description: Photograph of a typewriter, a ruler, and a framed piece of paper on a desk in a building in Newton, Texas. A framed photograph is mounted on the wall above the desk.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Family artifacts in an Anheuser-Busch crate]

Description: Photograph of artifacts in a crate from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. It is an Anheuser-Busch crate with St. Louis and the company that made the box printed on the side. The box is filled with family artifacts, including bags, satchels, boxes, and a ruler.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Slide ruler]

Description: Photograph of a slide rule from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. It is a wooden ruler with a metal square that can be moved to provide accurate measurements.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Collection of assorted handmade crafts and materials, pressed flowers, photographs and negatives, color illustrations, and other plastic, fabric, and metal objects]

Description: Photograph of a variety of handmade crafts and materials, pressed flowers, photographs and negatives, Victorian era scrapbook color illsutrations known as "scrap," and other plastic, fabric, and metal objects from the James Flowers Collection of Ephemera Found in Returned Library Books held by UNT Special Collections.
Date: December 6, 2021
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sheik]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Sheik Isa Bin Sulman, the prince of Bahrain, arriving in Dallas en route to New Orleans.
Date: July 12, 1955
Duration: 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Collection of materials from the Byrd Photo Service]

Description: Photograph of a collection of materials used in the Byrd Photo Service that are from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. There is a wooden slide ruler, two stamps that read "PROOF" and "Byrd Photo Service 3862 So. Freeway Ft. Worth, Texas 76110 (817) 926-3993", a business card, and another stamp.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Yardstick-Calculator.

Description: Patent for "a calculating-yardstick adapted for use in connection with the dry goods or any other business in which goods are sold by linear measurement, the object in view being to provide, in connection with a linear measuring scale or rule, an indicating device provided with a plurality of price-scales having relation to the measuring-scale and adapted to indicate the price of a given length of an article at a given price per unit of measure, and also adapted to indicate the length of an art… more
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Praeger, Ewald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing-Press.

Description: Patent for a printing, ruling, and cutting press of a simple and durable construction. The printing press can print both sides of a sheet of paper and has adjustable guards so that the operator can print any size paper. The machine also provides a "means for regulating the feed of the machine for adapting it to print short or long sections or a newspaper as well as a small tract" (lines 20-22). The machine has two plates opposite each other, the weight of one counterbalances the other so doubl… more
Date: March 31, 1896
Creator: Hallenbeck, Matthew L. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Surveyor's Instrument.

Description: Patent for a new and improved surveyor's instrument. This design consists in "[t]he instrument for surveying and analogous purposes, consisting of protractor, right-angled piece, and [additional] piece, the two latter pivoted to move independently on the protractor" (lines 9-13).
Date: March 10, 1885
Creator: Dolman, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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