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[News Clip: Pony express]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a reenactment of the Pony Express mail delivery ride from San Antonio to Austin, a promotional stunt for the San Antonio Stock Show.
Date: February 10, 1953
Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[First Air Mail Service to Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph showing 10 men standing in front of a Trans-Texas Airways plane around a cart with mailbags. A woman and a man are looking on through the cabin door, and the cargo door is open. This is a photograph taken by the newspaper's photographer to cover the initial flight of the first air mail route through Marshall, Texas. The dignitaries are wearing hats and suits, and a few are wearing overcoats. The airline crew members are wearing uniforms, but no jackets. "News Messenger" is printed at… more
Date: August 1953
Creator: Marshall News Messenger
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[News Script: Mail bag]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about more questions than answers in the case of the U.S mail bag found by Dallas and Collin County sheriff's deputies.
Date: August 2, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Mail-Bag-Handling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for "a mail-bag handing apparatus, and more specifically [an] apparatus designed to practically simultaneously deliver and receive bags or pouches containing mail or other matter, to and from a moving train or body" (lines 9-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1913
Creator: Brunkenhoefer, Henry F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag Fastener.

Description: Patent for a mail bag fastener which automatically locks when closed and can only be opened with a key.It also holds the mail bag open when letters are being withdrawn.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Barr, George Taylor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag.

Description: Patent for a mail bag, which opens completely from top to bottom to prevent any mail from being missed in the bag.
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Forehand, Blake
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Handling Device.

Description: Patent for a mail handling device that mounts into a train car to assist in loading and unloading of mail bags.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Kost, Joseph L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Delivery and Receiving Device

Description: Patent for a mail delivery and receiving device. This invention is designed for use whereby mail bags may be passed to and from passing trains. Illustrations included.
Date: January 5, 1909
Creator: Wehling, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Crane

Description: Patent for a mail crane. This invention is designed for the delivering sacks of mail to passing trains. Illustration included.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Hagmann, Charles C. & Fitzpatrick, Jacob C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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