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[Letter from J. G. Tompkins to David Leavell , April 8, 1949]

Description: Letter from J. G. Tompkins to David Leavell referring to a meeting about the financing of the Students Union Building at the Texas Medical School in Galveston. The recommendation from the meeting was to issue a bond to finance the project. However, legal counsel advised that this may not be legal. The letter suggests that a bill be passed by the Texas Legislature to allow for this type of financing.
Date: April 8, 1949
Creator: Tompkins, J. G.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Animal Shears.

Description: Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date: June 8, 1886
Creator: Harrell, Joseph J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases.

Description: Patent for a new and improved apparatus for impregnating liquids with gases. This design "relates to apparatus for impregnating water or other suitable liquid with the fumes emanating from the consumption of a combustible composition of matter, such as sulphur, which when ignited emits a gas containing suitable medicinal qualities" (lines 14-19). It consists in "the closed reservoir for containing the liquid, having windows upon opposite walls thereof, of the transverse beam having its ends sup… more
Date: October 8, 1889
Creator: Radam, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Welfare/ House speaker/ Chavez/ Regional jail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the state welfare board needing funds for disabled children, speaker of the house candidate Price Daniel Jr., Cesar Chavez's El Paso visit, Jefferson County as a potential location for the Nation's first regional jail, and an update on two missing little girls found in San Antonio.
Date: August 8, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delegates Daniel & Hobby]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the opening of the Texas Constitutional Convention in Austin, in which 181-legislator-delegates worked to fully re-write the Texas State Constitution.
Date: January 8, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Constitutional Convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the 1974 Texas Constitutional Convention in Austin presided over by Lt. Gov Bill Hobby.
Date: January 8, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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