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[Historic Marker Application: Saint Mary's Help of Christians Catholic Church]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Saint Mary's Help of Christians Catholic Church, in Blanco, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1965
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 29.994228 -98.392482
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for "a light and effective head-frame for horned cattle, designed to prevent their going through or injuring wire fences or from goring persons or animals." (Lines 14-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: Moore, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Sheller.

Description: Patent for improvements in corn-shellers in which it would be easily-operated and consists of “a semi-cylindrical trough having serrations upon the sides and bottom thereof, so that upon pushing the ear back and forth in the trough the corn will be scraped off.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Townsley, Christopher C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle attachment. This design "consists of a contrivance of nose-clamping strap having end rings through which pass the ends of a chin-strap connected by reign-straps passing through rings of a head-strap of the attachment . . . the invention comprising also a connection of the martingale-straps with the rings of the nose-clamping straps . . . to powerfully check up the horse when required, and also to prevent rearing and plunging" (lines 9-20).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Massey, John T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1440

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The authority of the Commissioners' Court of Blanco County to employ counsel to represent the Commissioner's Court in a suit brought to set aside an order of the Commissioners' Court distributing automobile registration fees.
Date: September 19, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: LBJ plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a private plane crash that killed the pilot and co-pilot near Johnson City, Texas.
Date: February 20, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Lynda Bird's Dress]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dress worn by Lynda Bird Johnson, the eldest daughter of the president, which was given to her as a Christmas gift while he was on tour in Scandinavia as vice-president.
Date: December 26, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Park]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the creation of a new park that will be ready by fall of the following year.
Date: July 16, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Rena Fay Stone Sherman, September 15, 2000

Description: Interview with Rena Fay Stone Sherman, descendant of Kerr County settlers and local business owner from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Sherman describes some of her family history, local history, and her two antique businesses. She also discusses her family's ranch.
Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Sherman, Rena Fay Stone
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with Elaine Crider Hurt, November 1, 2001

Description: Interview with Elaine Crider Hurt, the most current owner of Crider's Rodeo & Dancehall, from Kerrville, Texas. Elaine tells the story of her parents' ranch and the start of Crider's Rodeo & Dancehall in 1925, where dances, concerts, and other events are still held. She discusses the continuing success of the Crider's, despite struggles to keep it open during rough times, including when a large oak tree ruined the dance floor.
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle & Hurt, Elaine Crider
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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