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[News Clip: District 1]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 18, 1985, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Snake at zoo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about treating the python at the Forest Park Zoo for an infected jaw.
Date: August 18, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Spoon Excavator]

Description: Spoon excavator with a mother-of-pearl handle decorated with carved cross-hatching and floral patterns and a red jewel at the base of the handle. A second jewel is missing in the center of the handle.
Date: unknown
Creator: Samuel Stockton White Dental Manufacturing Company
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Tongue Depresser]

Description: Tongue depressor carved from mother-of-pearl with two purple jewels and star shaped carvings on one side. The reverse is smooth.
Date: unknown
Creator: Samuel Stockton White Dental Manufacturing Company
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Group of Dental Instruments]

Description: Group of four dental instruments that have handles made of decoratively-carved mother-of-pearl with jewels. From the bottom to top: a spoon excavator, a hand-held mirror, a second spoon excavator, and a tongue depressor.
Date: unknown
Creator: Samuel Stockton White Dental Manufacturing Company
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Hand-Held Mirror]

Description: Round, hand-held mirror set in mother-of-pearl, with a mother-of-pearl handle. The border around the mirror is decorated with three red jewels spaced around the sides and top, and a fish motif carved below the base of the mirror. The brass band between the handle and the mirror has 1 red jewel and 2 purple jewels.
Date: unknown
Creator: Samuel Stockton White Dental Manufacturing Company
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Improvement in Instruments for Filling Teeth

Description: Patent for improvement in instruments for filling teeth. "The object of this invention is to furnish an improved mode of filling teeth, by the use of which the filling may be built up, hardened, and polished at once, so that the filling will be as hard as marble when the patient leaves the operator's chair, and so that they can be immediately used for masticating."
Date: February 29, 1876
Creator: Ludwig, Carl D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Instrument.

Description: Patent for an improved dental instrument with a pointer and plunger combination to precisely locate the opening of the root canal and fill it effectively. The simple construction with few parts efficiently produces a compact tool with low production costs.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Payne, David H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dental Instrument.

Description: Patent for a new and improved dental instrument "designed to be used for removing the enamel around the base of a tooth preparatory to crowning the same and may be also employed for the purpose of removing crowns from teeth" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1916
Creator: Hamilton, Arthur L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Dental Instruments.

Description: Patent for a dental instrument which is to attach to a dental drill handle. Protecting the patient's tongue from being cut by the drill or grinding disk while the patient's lower teeth are being operated on, including illustrations.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Luzzi, August F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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