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[Letter from Cpt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, September 18, 1945]

Letter from Captain Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing the weather, difficulties he has been having at work, aviation, and the medical department at his job.

Date: September 18, 1945

Creator: Drew, Edward Allen

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Folding Umbrella

Patent for "a folding umbrella which may be quickly reduced in size, so that it may be conveniently inserted in a valise, satchel, or other receptacle, and also to construct the umbrella in such a manner that it may be held rigidly in either an open or closed position" (lines 9-15)

Date: July 18, 1892

Creator: Seymour, George H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Copy Holder.

Patent for a new and improved paper holder. This design is "to provide an indicator for use in connection with the copy-holder, so that when the copyist is interrupted . . . the indicator may be made to point out the exact place at which [she or] he left off" (lines 12-17). It consists, "with the copy-holding frame and the cross-bar mounted thereon, of an indicator formed of spring metal, said indicator having a slideway to fit the cross-bar, and a laterally-extending hand" (lines 125-130).

Date: November 18, 1890