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[Photograph of Rhuman and Denton County Com.]

Description: Photograph of Doc Rhuman interviewing an unidentified person. They are both outdoor. Rhuman can be seen holding a small portable microphone. Both are dressed in formal attire. Plants and fences are visible in the back.
Date: May 16, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fences]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 25, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Building Behind Fence]

Description: Photograph of a large two-story building behind a fence bearing a sign reading "Private Property" in Decatur, Texas. There are trees in the foreground and bushes against the side of the building.
Date: May 29, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Photograph of a column of houses on the left side of a road]

Description: Photograph of a column of houses on the left side of a road, col. photograph taken at a breakfast event with Dallas mayor Jack Evans and members of the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas. On the right side of the shot, there is a long iron fence. This shot is specifically taken from the inside of an automobile.
Date: May 1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men playing baseball at WBAP picnic]

Description: Photograph of a group of men playing baseball, taken from behind a chain-link fence. A person is partially cut from the frame to the left. The men in the middle bend over with his glove down on the ground to catch the ball, while another man is holding a bat.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photo of men playing baseball at WBAP picnic]

Description: Photograph of a group of men playing baseball in a field, taken from behind a chain-link fence. The men in the middle bend over with his glove down on the ground to catch the ball, while another man is holding a bat.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wire Stretcher and Splicer.

Description: Patent for "a wire-patcher by which the wire rails of fences may be spliced when broken and stretched when any slack occurs." (Lines 16-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Massey, Joseph Borygard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Willie, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the side bars having a toothed wheel journaled between them and provided with a crank, a set of cross bars or bolts connecting the two side bars, a pawl hung upon one of the cross-bars and having its toothed end arranged to abut against the teeth of the wheel, and a chain passing over the toothed wheel and underneath the pawl" (lines 67-76).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Stiles, Frederick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire-and-Picket-Fence Machine.

Description: Patent for a machine that secures "pickets in wire fencing, the wires having been secured to and stretched between the fence-posts and the machine applied to the wires and operated by hand to secure the pickets to the wires by an operation which places them in crossed relation to form loops within which the pickets are secured at the proper distance apart" (lines 9-16). The machine works on wires that have already been stretched.
Date: May 12, 1896
Creator: Rice, Elisha A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design is "for stretching and repairing wire, the combination of a main bar having a longitudinal slot, and having an upwardly-facing shoulder provided with a groove, a guide-block in the lower end of the slot, a shaft journaled in the sides of the slot and having a pinion within the slot and a ratchet handle at its outer end for revolving it, a spring pawl engaging the pinion, a cam-lever pivoted upon the upper end of the main bar and engaging… more
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: La Bauve, Odelon Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Staple Extractor.

Description: Patent for a staple extractor used for removing wire from the posts of wire fences. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Hunt, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Building Wire Fences.

Description: Patent for a simple and effective tool used for building wire fences that is "a nail holding and driving device, a measuring attachment, and a wire cutter" (lines 12-14).
Date: May 15, 1894
Creator: Highsmith, Lewis C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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