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Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:100000
Date: 1985
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.25 -97.50
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: F-84]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the midair explosion of a F-84 Thunderjet over the town of Buda near Austin. The pilot was killed in the accident, the cause of which is unclear.
Date: April 9, 1953
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Scrapbook for The Experience, 1981-1984]

Description: Scrapbook containing color photographs, letters, name tags, stickers, brochures, invitations, and tickets in relation to "The Experience" and its' participants. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. The scrapbook also documents social gatherings of those who participated and coordinated "The Experience."
Date: [1981..1984]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of the flyer for the Vets-4-Vets Taskforce for Coronavirus Assistance]

Description: Photograph taken by Alba Melgar-C'De Baca at the Veteran center in Buda, Texas on March 19th, 2020, showing the photographer's spouse holding a flier. The flier promotes awareness of an organization created by Baca and her spouse to help home-bound citizens during COVID-19 with grocery deliveries. The nonprofits F7 Group and Central Texas VSO Alliance funded the organization for over 90 days to help citizens get past the initial challenges and adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Alba Melgar-C'De
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Tire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for improvements in tire tighteners by using wedges with longitudinal ridges, longitudinal tapering ridges or webs, together “with a wheel-rim, clamps arranged in pairs upon each side of the felly-joint, the clamps consisting of plates have a fluted or corrugated inner surface …., the extension of the registering plates being connected by transverse bolts.” (lines 37-45) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Reeves, Alexander Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Agricultural Implement

Description: Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention allows for the interchangeability of different blades. Illustration included.
Date: October 2, 1906
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for a hay-press where "the plunger or traverser is arranged in a suitable frame and is drawn toward its rearward position by means of a spring. rods are connected to the opposite sides of the plunger or traverser, and these are in turn connected to a cross-head, which in turn is connected with a pitman provided on its outer end with a hook that engages mechanism to give it a motion which imparts a reciprocating motion to the plunger" (lines 15-25).
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: McIntosh, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Basket.

Description: Patent for a metallic produce basket. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1897
Creator: Taylor, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Franks, Lewis W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date: June 11, 1918
Creator: Stubs, Orace Virgil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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