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[News Clip: Electrocution]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a local boy being electrocuted by an electric fence in Bedford, Texas.
Date: July 30, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Little cowboy on fence]

Description: Photograph of a little cowboy leaning on a fence to watch livestock at the Broseco Ranch located in Omaha, Texas. The ranch is home to over 2,000 award wining Red Angus cattle, whitetail deer, and two 100-acres lakes filled with Florida bass.
Date: July 1996
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.

Description: Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: McElroy, Jesse Roberts
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Tightener.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design "has for its object to provide a novel, simple, economical, and efficient implement or tool for tightening wire fences by forming twists or loops in the fence-strands to take up the slack, and to provide a novel implement of this type wherein a rod or bar can be conveniently applied to increase the leverage in turning the implement to form the twists or loops" (lines 8-16).
Date: July 15, 1890
Creator: Bellah, William N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "the combination of a bar provided with a toothed quadrant and with a boss having an overhanging projection at its rear end, an eccentric pivoted on the face of the said boss for holding the wire against the projection, a hand-lever pivoted to the bar, and provided with a spring-detent engaging with a toothed quadrant, a plate pivoted at one end to the hand-lever and provided with an overhanging projection, and a second eccen… more
Date: July 19, 1887
Creator: Mason, James Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "consists in the combination of a slotted lever provided with points at one end to catch against the side of the post and a hook over which one end of the chain is fastened, a sliding frame, a reel or drum, pawls, a guiding-pulley, a wire or chain, to which the clamp is secured, and a chain for fastening the stretcher to the post . . . [it] is to provide a slotted handle a sliding frame . . . so that when the strain of the wire being str… more
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Dunbar, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mold for Earth and Stone Fences.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mold for earth and stone fences. This design "consist[s] of the inclined adjustable sides, having inclined standards, removable boards, and boards, tables, and locking-bolts . . . [and] the sides having lower boards or metallic pieces, upper removable boards or metallic pieces, and inclined standards of the tables, locking-bolts, handles, and stakes" (lines 21-30).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Budd, Lewis R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Slag Fence]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 23, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Slag Fence]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 23, 1991, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Gate.

Description: Patent for a sliding gate with an improved track rail.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Bohne, Fritz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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