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Maverick County

Description: Map of Maverick County, Texas, including the South Texas Plains region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1892
Creator: Warren, W. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Oral History Interview with Joe Schmerber, December 5, 2017

Description: Transcript of an interview with Joe Schmerber, who worked for and helped establish departments in Mooney Aircraft Company and Bridgestone Tires. The interview discusses his parents, early years as one of nine children, his work experience, education, interest in aviation, and family life. Copies of photographs follow the transcript.
Date: December 5, 2017
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Schmerber, Joe Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Eagle Pass High School]

Description: Postcard image of Eagle Pass High School in Eagle Pass, Texas. The two story school building is positioned within a fenced yard area with trees covering the front entrance on either side. In the foreground one automobile with passengers inside is visible on the dirt road in front of the school. On top of the school there is one American Flag flying.
Date: unknown
Creator: C. T. Photochrom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[News Script: New Top Texas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of mild temperatures and numerous scattered showers and thunderstorms which are prevailing over Texas.
Date: August 31, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
transcript

Oral History Interview with Connie Douglas Reeves, February 27, 1998

Description: Interview with Connie Douglas Reeves from Eagle Pass, Texas. The interview includes her stories of growing up on the Mexican border, later moving to San Antonio and becoming a member of "The Lassos," and teaching horseback riding.
Date: February 27, 1998
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Witt, Gerald; Reeves, Connie Douglas & Bethel, Ann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Joe Schmerber, December 5, 2017

Description: Interview with Joe Schmerber, who worked for and helped establish departments in Mooney Aircraft Company and Bridgestone Tires. The interview discusses his parents, early years as one of nine children, his work experience, education, interest in aviation, and family life.
Date: December 5, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Schmerber, Joe Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Speed-Recorder.

Description: Patent for recording instruments to use in connection with automobiles to record the speed of conveyance during the period of travel.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Bowdish, Harry A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie Mold

Description: Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ignition System for Gas-Engines.

Description: Patent for improvements to ignition system for gas internal combustion engines that is simple, compact and serves as "a combination coil, distributer, interrupter and condenser for use in connection with storage batteries and low tensioned magnetos not timed to the engine shaft."
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Kelly, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shoe-Tongue Support.

Description: Patent for a shoe tongue with a backing support to keep it from slipping down or sideways, which is held in place by the shoelaces.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Thomas, Robert P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Tie.

Description: Patent for an invention relating to the railway tie that aims to produce "a tie which is adapted to be constructed of reinforced concrete" (lines 14-16). Other objectives and illustrations of invention are included.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shawl Strap.

Description: Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).
Date: August 19, 1884
Creator: Tharp, William B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie

Description: Patent for a railroad tie “which is so constructed as to enable the rails to have resiliency” (lines 16-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 9, 1915
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Newspaper-File.

Description: Patent for improvements in newspaper-holders by using a long metallic “piece bent at its upper end to form a spring and a means of suspension for the holder, and also bent at its lower end to form a similar spring and a hand-grasp, an upper and a lower loop connected to the bent ends of the metallic piece, and a retaining-tongue pivotally connected to the lower loop and having a hooked end for engaging the upper loop” (lines 82-89) to hold the newspaper. Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Newspaper File.

Description: Patent for a new and improved newspaper file. This design "is adapted and designed to be laid upon a table or placed in the usual rack or suspended by a hook, and . . . it may be held in one hand by means of its handle at the base while perusing the paper" (lines 17-22). It consists, "with a standard formed at or near its upper and lower ends . . . with a suitable perforation extending through the same from the back to the front thereof, of springs arranged upon the back of the standard, one ne… more
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chas. Fessmann

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name with text reading: "Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars, And Agent for the Anheuser-Bush Keg and Bottle Beer."
Date: 1892
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Cutlery-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for a cutlery sharpener "which may be used for dressing down the edges of knives," "may be employed in the kitchen to rapidly condition kitchen knives," (line 16, lines 18-20) and create different types of beveled edges on a blade. It provides instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Ball, Ewart M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Desk Receptacle.

Description: Patent for a "novel, convenient, and ornamental bottle or receptacle, adapted to contain ink, a sponge, or the like, combined with a pin-cushion and a pen-wiper" (lines 11-14), with illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.; Terrell, Edward H. & Terrell, James R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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