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[Trading Card: Alligator Gar]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Lake Somerville - Birch Creek State Park, depicting an alligator gar fish. The back of the card includes information about the species.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Northern Ireland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a car packed with an estimated of six hundred pounds of explosives blew up in a resort city.
Date: August 26, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: SMU - Tech]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the SMU Mustangs who continued to play amazing basketball in beating Texas tech 78- 72 in Lubbock for their 8th win in a row.
Date: March 2, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire Stretcher

Description: Patent for a device that improves "wire-stretchers, but also adapted to be used for other purposes" (lines 15-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: unknown
Creator: Calhoun, Albert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a wire fastener for telegraph poles, which connects to the poles without the use of other wires to tie the fastener to the pole.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Wilburn, Sylvester & Smith, Thomas E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Jar Fastener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved jar fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a fruit can or jar, having a continuous groove across its bottom and up its sides, of a U-shaped bolt resting in said groove, a cap-plate resting on the top of the jar and through which the legs of the bolt extend, and securing nuts turning on the ends of the bolt above the cap-plate" (lines 78-84).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Dickey, Marion Flutcher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Low-Pressure Alarm and Indicator for Air-Brakes.

Description: Patent for "air-brake mechanisms in general, and more particularly to the alarms for giving warning when the pressure in the train-pipe drops to a predetermined point and for giving a visual signal when such condition exists" (p. 1, lines 8-13).
Date: October 25, 1900
Creator: Parsons, Avery H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Kitchen-Sink

Description: Patent for a kitchen sink. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Ogle, Thomas Scott & Polansky, Robert F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.

Description: Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
Date: September 5, 1876
Creator: Mathes, William McConnell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk- Cutter

Description: Patent for a Stalk-Cutter, a "simple, durable and efficient device for cutting stalks, like cotton, cornstalks or weeds, while standing" (lines 13-14).
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Wilburn, Sylvestor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Puller.

Description: Patent for a stalk puller that is adaptable to different size stalks, better built, and more efficient than previous stalk pullers.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Richardson, Columbus John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Staple Extractor.

Description: Patent for a staple extractor used for removing wire from the posts of wire fences. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Hunt, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties.

Description: Book containing a brief overview of the state of Texas and more specific focus on six specific counties, with extensive biographical sketches about persons related to the history of those places. An alphabetical index of persons who are included follows the table of contents at the front of the book.
Date: 2017
Creator: Lewis Publishing Company
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties.

Description: Book containing a brief overview of the state of Texas and more specific focus on six specific counties, with extensive biographical sketches about persons related to the history of those places. An alphabetical index of persons who are included follows the table of contents at the front of the book.
Date: 1893
Creator: Lewis Publishing Company
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Quilting-Machine.

Description: Patent for a sewing machine that stitches in rows or patterns, using select techniques to stitch through layers of fabric and batting, in the manner of old-style hand quilting. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1884
Creator: Woods, Evans
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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