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Corn-Header.

Description: Patent for a device for the removal of the heads of corn. The device contains a blade and attaches to a person's hand.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Hooper, Howard Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Midland 1914 Sheet 6

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Midland 1914 Sheet 5

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Midland 1914 Sheet 7

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Midland 1914 Sheet 1

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Midland 1914 Sheet 4

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Midland 1914 Sheet 3

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Midland 1914 Sheet 2

Description: Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Midland in Midland County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1914
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for an improved spark plug assembly used in explosive engines allowing for easier cleaning of the electrodes while the motor is running, among other enhancements over contemporary spark plug design.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Inman, John P. & Estes, Robert E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tool for Building and Repairing Wire Fences

Description: Patent for a wire fence building and repair tool that includes "features of a wire stretcher, staple puller, hammer, and a crowbar" (lines 15-16) and can "secure together the two extremities of a broken fence wire so that the same may be tied or intertwisted." (lines 18-20)
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Bingham, Robert L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for a spark plug used in explosive engines. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Estes, Robert E. & Inman, John P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch-Throwing Mechanism.

Description: Patent related to switch throwing mechanisms, specifically for vehicles. This switch throwing mechanism allows the operator of the vehicle to properly conduct the switch without stopping the vehicle.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Reiger, Paul J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Road-Machine.

Description: Patent for "a machine for resurfacing roads or preparing new roads" (lines 9-10). Machine includes an adjustable scraper to aid in leveling of the roadway and compresses the edges of the roads using drags or shoes. The machine is adaptable to aid in road construction "depending upon the nature and condition of the road's surface" (lines 16-17).
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Dean, William A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show: Announcement Catalogue

Description: Booklet documenting information about the second annual Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show held in 1915, including information about the organization membership, rules and regulations of the show, and listings of registered livestock to be auctioned off at the end of the show, along with local business advertising that is indexed on the back cover.
Date: 1915
Creator: Midland County Fair & Fat Stock Show Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Midland-Seminole Mail Line]

Description: Photograph of a long car loaded with bags of mail and postmen, en route running a mail line between Midland and Seminole created by the Spaulding brothers. The car is parked on a dirt surface in front of a Cadillac building with four men and a woman in the back. The driver may be Trafton Yarborough.
Date: 1911~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Flood at Main and Wall Street, Midland]

Description: Photograph of a flood on the corner of Main and Wall Street in Midland. Water flows towards the right on Wall Street (bottom-left corner to center-right side), and people stand on the sidewalks of Main Street examining the flood. In front of the First National Bank, the large Neoclassical building on the street corner, more people have gathered, with stores visible to the left of the bank.
Date: May 8, 1917
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.997600 -102.074269
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Program: The Professors Love Story, 1911]

Description: Program for a benefit performance of a comedy titled "The Professors Love Story," listing the cast and a brief synopsis listing the setting of the acts in the center of the page with local advertising printed around the outside. The are two ticket stubs attached near the top of the page for Section 8, Row H, Numbers 2 & 3.
Date: 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Midland Historical Society

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator that throws the dirt out of the way to allow the plants to be chopped more easily.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Arthur, George P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for cotton chopper attachment for wheeled cultivators that allowed the user to "cut or chop out portions of the cotton row so that the growth of the remaining cotton is facilitated."
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Arthur, George P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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