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[News Script: Chase]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: May 2, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Old Vet Honored with Army Medal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Walter W. Williams. At age one-hundred-and-thirteen, Williams is the oldest surviving veteran of the Civil War. He receives a medal authorized by the eighty-fourth Congress.
Date: November 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Description: Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clothes Pin

Description: Patent for a clothes pin. This clothing pin is made of wire and designed to be used for hanging clothes on a line. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Luster, Thomas A. & Stewart, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bottle.

Description: Patent for non-refillable bottles which can be filled and emptied easily with inexpensive construction. Instead of a stopper, a bottleneck pattern can be used which is efficient and safer.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Holland, Willie Washington
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Robertson Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Robertson County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1919
Creator: Maxey, John W. & Newton, John C.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Map of Nacogdoches and Robertson]

Description: Cadastral map of Nacogdoches and Robertson Counties, showing property lines, ownership, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, forts, rivers, and creeks. The map includes four tables of references to military personnel along the right side of the map. No scale indicated.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

General Highway Map, Robertson County, Texas

Description: Highway map of Robertson County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, cemeteries, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, railroads, ranches, state parks, military bases, a federal prison, and airports. Map includes eight inset maps (Easterly, Ridge, New Baden, Inset No. 1, Bremond, Benchley, Wheelock, and Mumford), a k… more
Date: 1969
Creator: Texas. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 66, July 1962 - April, 1963

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 615.
Date: 1963
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Cattle-Guard for Railroads.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard for railroads that improves on preventing cattle from passing from their enclosure onto a railway track. The invention does not trap animals or people or cause injury, and lies below the upper treads of the rails.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Brady, Peter L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Brady, Peter L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle and Back Band Hook.

Description: Patent for a new and improved buckle and back-band hook. This design "contemplates certain improvements in combined buckles and back-band hooks; and it consists of a buckle having, or to which may be separately applied, a peculiar hook or tongue" (lines 10-14).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Munger, Ennis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter

Description: Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
Date: February 18, 1890
Creator: Peeler, John Wiliam
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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