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[Hand saw with a steel blade]

Description: Hand saw with a carved wooden handle and steel blade. Handle has a carved leaf pattern on one side with three brass bolts: top two are 1.2 cm in diameter and have no surface decoration, bottom bolt is 2.2 cm in diameter and is stamped with an eagle and with "Warranted / Pat. Dec. 27, 1887 / Superior"
Date: 1890
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Compass saw]

Description: Compass saw that has an upside down G-Shaped handle with two screwed where the blade inserts. The one further away from the blade is 2 cm in diameter and is stamped with H Disston & Sons Philada With a little emblem in the center. The other is 1.2 cm in diameter and is plain. The blade is most likely the original because it has been engraved with the same names.
Date: 1895
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Man Sawing a Log]

Description: Photograph of a man sawing a log at the pioneer log house raising, at the Texas Folklife Festival. The project is directed by Arnold Griffin, a rancher and building contractor in Devine. The log has been laid in place on one wall of the log cabin. With a large manual saw, the man is cutting out a groove in the log to create a corner join in which another log will be laid perpendicular.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Standing in a Door Frame at the Pioneer House of the Danish Heritage Museum]

Description: Color photograph of Clyde Runnels standing in a door frame inside the pioneer house at the Danish Heritage Museum, where is working on its reconstruction. He is wearing a blue work jumpsuit, sneakers, and a hat; around his waist, he has a tool apron hanging from his waist. A sawhorse is visible in the foreground, as is a machine that has the words "Table Saw" on its front. A long, thin plank of wood is balanced against the sawhorse and ends at his feet.
Date: unknown
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[News Script: Tunnel under road]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the construction of a pipeline beneath Highway 157.
Date: May 21, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man Working a Saw]

Description: Photograph of a man operating a large machine saw in front of a chain link fence in Columbus, Texas There are wooden platforms in the foreground, a pile of red terra cotta behind the man, and two cars parked behind the fence.
Date: November 4, 2009
Creator: Bell, Jim
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Wood being sawed]

Description: Photograph of wood being sawed. A saw can be seen at about halfway through the wood. A person wearing work clothes is yielding the saw, holding down the wood with the help of another person.
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Speech and Drama Building during construction 4]

Description: Photograph of workers inside of the structure of the Speech and Drama Building that is being built on the NTSU campus. One is sawing a wooden plank for use on the framing of the walls. There are materials and tools scattered around them and the exterior wall as well as the framing for the roof is visible in the photo.
Date: Summer 1967
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Do It Yourself Exhibit Opened]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a home repair and decoration do-it-yourself show at the Leonard Brothers Store in Fort Worth. The show featured demonstrations on how to reupholster furniture, as well as tutorials on how to use various tools and appliances for home improvement.
Date: April 1, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man whittling a piece of wood]

Description: Photograph of a man whittling a piece of wood in a work shop. The man uses a small, dual-handed saw to whittle, and stands in the center of the image while looking down at the wood. In the background another work station is seen set up to the left of the man, and three large windows are seen on the walls around him.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sawing wood]

Description: Photograph of men sawing through a tree. In the image, two men are using a two man saw while two boys sit on either end of the tree for stability. More people can be seen in the background surrounding a pile of straw or wheat.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sawing wood]

Description: Photograph of men sawing through a tree. In the image, two men are using a two man saw while two boys sit on either end of the tree for stability. More people can be seen in the background surrounding a pile of straw or wheat.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Last spike driven on new rail line]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a ceremony marking the driving of the final spike on a new rail line between Dallas and Denton County that will provide Dallas with direct rail service to Chicago.
Date: November 3, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trees]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the last of a native old Elm tree that is dying.
Date: January 15, 1964
Duration: 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of two men sawing wood, 1]

Description: Photograph of two men in a workshop. The man wearing overalls is holding a board against more boards held up by sawhorses. The other man wearing suspenders is sawing off the end of the board. The ground below the boards is littered with off cuts of the boards. Above their heads are wooden beams crisscrossing the ceiling with light bulbs hanging down. In the background is an assortment of equipment, including shelves, tools, and two windows.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a man milling a log]

Description: Photograph of a man pushing a milled log through a saw. The man is wearing a hat, gloves, and jacket. The jacket and hat are dusted in sawdust. In the background is a giant pile of sawdust next to some trees. Off to the side of the sawdust pile is a pile of sawed off pieces of wood and bark.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a lumber milling site]

Description: Photograph of people working at a lumber milling site. In the foreground are two people working at the mill while two people watch. All around them in piles are strips of bark that have been sawed off of the logs, other piles are stacks of milled planks. In the middle ground is a long row of unmilled logs. In the background is a destroyed forest, stripped of its trees. All that is left are a few of thin dead trees.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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