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Wire-Tightening Implement.

Description: Patent for a wire-tightening implement meant to tightening wires in fences by making loops or twists in the wires. It has two handles forming jaws around a fulcrum, the jaws have flat faces with parallel grooves, and the jaws coming together at their ends. The grooves in the jaws form different sized loops.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: West, James M.
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Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire.

Description: Patent for a tool that tightens wires and takes up slack on wire fences. It also splices and joins wires together. The invention has "a novel construction whereby a loop is formed in the strand of wire which is to be tightened and the parts of such wire adjacent to the loop and brought into parallelism so that they may be intertwisted accurately and neatly" (lines 20-25). It also forms loops of different sizes in the wire.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G. & Embrey, Leonard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hinge.

Description: Patent for gate-hinge that will attach to gate and supporting-post and will "retain the gate normally in closed position." (lines 11-12), including description and illustrations.
Date: October 15, 1901
Creator: Roots, Preston
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "compris[es] the main end and intermediate posts anchored in the ground, the longitudinal wires connected to said main end posts and let into said intermediate posts, said end posts being suitably braced and said longitudinal wires being connected together by tie-wires, and the supplemental posts, to which are also bound or secured said longitudinal wires, having the horizontal feet of approximate figure-8 shape resting squarely on the ground or … more
Date: May 27, 1890
Creator: Kerr, James, Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Compatriot group picture outside at Jester Park]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. They are standing in two rows and are all wearing uniforms. Some are holding rifles and one of the two CAR members is carrying and playing a drum. Behind them are a row of flags for the chapters present.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Compatriots gathering under tree]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. Among them are the TXSSAR President, Tom Jackson, and members from the Arlington and Denton chapters, including Jerry Cope, Ted Wilson, and Sonny Replogle. They are all wearing uniforms and are gathering underneath a large tree. Some have rifles and behind them a car and Oakwood Cemetery are visible.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Compatriots lining up at Jester Park]

Description: A video of TXSSAR compatriots and two CAR members going down a short run of stairs and lining up for a group photo. They are at Jester Park, in Corsicana, TX, for the unveiling of the new SAR membership emblems that are located at the graves of George Jester and Edward Monroe Polk in the nearby Oakwood Cemetery. There is a row of flags behind them.
Date: August 11, 2018
Duration: 34 seconds
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Compatriots gathered together at Jester Park]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. Among them is Arlington Chapter member Ted Wilson. All are wearing uniforms and are gathering underneath a large tree. Some have rifles and behind them Oakwood Cemetery is visible.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Compatriots gathered together under tree]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. Among them are the TXSSAR President Tom Jackson and members from the Arlington and Denton Chapters, including Jerry Cope, Ted Wilson, and Sonny Replogle. They are all wearing uniforms and are gathering underneath a large tree. Some have rifles and behind them a car and Oakwood Cemetery are visible.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Compatriots gathered under tree]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. They are all wearing uniforms and are gathering underneath a large tree. Some have rifles and behind them a car and Oakwood Cemetery are visible.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Compatriot group picture at Jester Park]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. They are standing in two rows and are all wearing uniforms. Some are holding rifles and one of the two CAR members is carrying and playing a drum. Behind them are a row of flags for the chapters present.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[TXSSAR members gathered at Jester Park]

Description: Photograph of compatriots at a joint SAR-DAR event at Jester Park in Corsicana, TX. They are all wearing uniforms and are gathering underneath a large tree. Among them are Arlington Chapter members Jerry Cope and Ted Wilson, Denton Chapter member Sonny Replogle, and TXSSAR President Tom Jackson. Some have rifles and behind them Oakwood Cemetery and two cars are visible.
Date: August 11, 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Arlington Chapter 7.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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