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[Scarecrow in purple]

Description: Photograph of a scarecrow dressed in purple standing in the garden outside of a house at the Dallas Heritage Village. There are four sections in the garden with different plants, including pumpkins, in them. A stone barrier is built around the area.
Date: October 14, 2018
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Fence-Post.

Description: Patent for new metal fence posts and supports to "improve and simplify the general construction of devices of this character" (lines 13-15).
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Naiser, John Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Woman "fence" indicted]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Cora Cox being indicted for being the "fence" for a burglary gang.
Date: December 14, 1954
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plane crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a plane crash at the Dallas Naval Air Station in Grand Prairie. Lieutenant A. W. Burnsides, Jr., a U.S. Marine Reserves pilot, is critically injured after losing control of his jet during landing. He is not expected to survive.
Date: September 14, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The garden gate]

Description: Photograph of a printed paper of an illustration of a flower garden filled with trees, bushes, and a gate around it. The print is taped against a wall that is label "the garden gate."
Date: March 14, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Juvenile]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the arrest of John Robert Taylor, a sixteen-year-old who admits he stole five cars in the past four days. He surrendered voluntarily to a juvenile home.
Date: November 14, 1956
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a block carrying bails or loops, and longitudinally grooved, of racks mounted within said grooves, a crank-shaft carrying a pinion, said shaft being mounted in standards secured to the block, pawls arranged to engage with ratchet-teeth formed in the racks, and clamping-jaws fixed to opposite ends of the racks" (lines 87-94).
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Graham, Andrew Bascome
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the sill-beams, grooved . . . the trip-bars secured in said grooves and pivotally supported at one end, and connections between the opposite ends of the trip-bars and the gate" (lines 83-87).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Tipton, Phylander S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate.

Description: Patent for a sliding gate that closes automatically when the opening and closing mechanism is released.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Otto, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "consist[s] of posts, a barbed-wire line connecting the top portions of the posts, the horizontal slats, the vertical wires secured at their lower ends to the lower portions of the post, and looped around the slats and connected at their upper portions to the wire line, and thence extending upward and secured to the upper ends of the posts above said wire line, and wire loops passing around the ends of the lower slats and connected with the lower… more
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Gordon, Marion J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Arlington Chapter members in barn]

Description: Photograph of members of TXSSAR's Arlington Chapter (#7) inside of a barn at George Ranch for the TXSSAR Houston Congress. They are (L-R) Mike Connelley, Ron Carter, Meredith Anderson, and John Anderson.
Date: July 14, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for an animal-poke that is "placed over the animal's neck and provided with spurs, whereby the animal is pricked when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier" (lines 9-12). This invention doesn't prick the animal while it is grazing and is more comfortable to wear than similar animal-pokes.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Dickey, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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