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[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Crowd from Parking Lot]

Description: Photograph of a crowd at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the Rockwall First Baptist Church, gathered on a parking lot adjacent to the church building. In front of the crowd are prominent leaders of the church, some wearing hard hats, standing near four shovels wrapped with bows and lodged in the dirt. Inside the church, people watch the ceremony from a window (center right). The church's steeple and the city's water tower are both visible behind the church building.
Date: February 1, 1998
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Baptist Class in Rockwall]

Description: Photograph of a class held in the Rockwall First Baptist Church. Adult students sit on rows of wooden chairs and stand along the back of the wall while a teacher (identified as "Tresenwriter") speaks from a podium at right. Several students are identified by name on the back of the photograph: standing in the back (positions unspecified), Anna Loflond, May Canup, Rhoda Holt, Myrtle Rlatts, Lofland, and Gilbert. Seated students: Clemmie Fondren, Janie Cook, Seely, Gladys Williams, Ethel Fondren,… more
Date: unknown
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Rockwall First Baptist Sanctuary #3]

Description: Photograph of the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Rockwall during a service. The chancel is positioned on a raised platform at the end of the sanctuary, atop which is placed the pulpit, the clergy chairs, and the choir section. On both sides of the chancel are the keyboard instruments, a grand piano at left and an organ at right. A large window sits above the chancel, and large lamps hang above the length of the sanctuary. Churchgoers are seated along several rows of pews. The church p… more
Date: unknown
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

["The Gift" Choir, Rockwall First Baptist]

Description: Photograph of a "The Gift" choir, arranged in the main sanctuary of the Rockwall First Baptist Church, which is decorated for Christmas with poinsettias and biblical imagery. The choir members, wearing red stoles and holding, red choir books, stand in three rows behind the conductor's podium and music stand, in front of the pews, where congregants are seated. A logotype reading "The Gift" is projected or printed above the choir.
Date: unknown
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[New Worship Center Groundbreaking: Panorama #2]

Description: Panoramic photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony for a new worship center at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall. Facing the east, the Rockwall water tower, the old worship center, and its white steeple is visible behind the large crowd of people standing together on the location of the worship center. In front of the people are parked cars in front of a row of parking cones. The crowd watches a group of people stand near a pile of upturned soil at right.
Date: February 1, 1998
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[First Baptist Educational Building Groundbreaking, Rockwall]

Description: Photograph of a ground-breaking ceremony for a new educational building for the Rockwall First Baptist Church on March 13, 1983. A man holds a spade, digging from a small dirt patch in a grass field, surrounded by multiple people. A list of names of people present at the groundbreaking is included.
Date: March 13, 1983
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Description: Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Hartman, Gus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flue-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a portable flue cleaner for boilers. Through a nozzle on the cleaner, the flue cleaner uses the steam from the boiler to remove dirt, dust and soot. The dirt is forced out of the boiler when the steam escapes.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Leonard, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Bank robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a mother of nine was captured after a police chase that followed after the Citizen's State Bank was robbed.
Date: February 16, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about turbulent weather which moved in on area 5.
Date: June 12, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Punch.

Description: Patent for a punch for "removing broken rivets from buggy-bow sockets" (lines 16, 17) that can be operated by one person.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: Stedham, William H. & Miller, John N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bolt and Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for "a nut-lock of such construction that it may be used either as a permanent nut-lock or one in which the locking feature may be thrown out of engagement when it is desired to remove the bolt for any purpose." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Nevill, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Funerals]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two of the three officers who were killed in Dallas had their funeral services at First Methodist Church and First Baptist Church.
Date: February 18, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Innocent Convict]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about George White Junior, who has served seven years in prison for robbery when in reality, he didn't commit the robbery. He was released, and the other robber was sent to jail.
Date: October 17, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX]

Description: Photograph of Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX. A paved parking lot sits in front of the courthouse with multiple cars and trucks occupying it, slightly obscuring the small lawn surrounding the building. The courthouse is constructed by off-white bricks and has a short set of stairs leading up to the windowed doors of the building. Across the walls of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows spaced a handful of feet apart from one another. In the center of the flat top of the build… more
Date: February 1975
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robbery Shoot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a 38-year old Forest Fuller of Rockwall who underwent brain surgery to repair damage from a bullet wound.
Date: January 25, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Wreck]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an automobile accident that resulted in the death of one man and other individuals being injured.
Date: July 4, 1958
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Antirefilling Bottle.

Description: Patent for a bottle that can be easily sealed but cannot be resealed after opened. There is a groove in the neck of the bottle, and the cork is placed below the groove. The cork is hollowed out and a plug is placed in the cork. The cork is hollowed out and a plug with a groove around it is placed in the cork.An elastic compressible locking-ring fits in the gap the groove in the bottle and the groove in the plug create.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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