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[Men Standing Around Whale]

Description: Photograph of several men standing around a dead sperm whale laid on wooden boards in Port Arthur, Texas. A wooden fence is visible to the right, and there is a coil of rope on the boards in the foreground.
Date: March 18, 1910
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Car Outside House]

Description: Photograph of a car parked outside a white house with a picket fence and several trees in the yard in Liberty, Texas. A red brick building and a white building are visible in the background to the left.
Date: February 18, 2010
Creator: Bell, Jim
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
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[News Clip: Pilot escapes as jet smashed fence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Navy jet losing power on takeoff from Grand Prairie's Hensley Field, skidding across a road, and crashing into a fence. The jet didn't hit any cars and the pilot was uninjured.
Date: April 18, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher. It is "a device of simple and improved form and possessing great power for the purpose of making taut fence or other wires" (liens 14-16). It is operated by rotating a shaft
Date: August 18, 1896
Creator: Willie, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post-Driver.

Description: Patent for a machine that drives posts and "can be placed on the running gear of a vehicle in such a manner that it can be readily adjusted to operate on posts at either side of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle" (lines 14-18). It can be easily adjusted and is simply constructed.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Harris, Stephen G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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