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[Registry Receipt, January 6, 1896]

Description: A registry receipt from the Chambersville, Texas Post Office for registered letter number 2, received of C. B. Moore on January 6, 1896, and addressed to J. D. Shaw in Waco, Texas. The reverse side contains a message regarding the weather and other matters associated with farming.
Date: January 6, 1896
Creator: Chambersville Post Office
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Soil map, Collin County, Texas

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, towns, churches, schools, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1935
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Dam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date: September 8, 1966
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Journal of William Maxwell]

Description: Journal of William Reason Maxwell containing daily thoughts, activities, and accounts. Several pages in the back have been cut out.
Date: January 1876
Creator: Maxwell, William Reason
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

Report on Proposed McKinney - Bonham - Paris Interurban: Statistics and Photographs

Description: Book discussing statistics for the finances and infrastructure of McKinney, Bonham, and Paris, Texas and the surrounding areas. There is a map of Dallas and the surrounding areas and several photographs of the various cities discussed throughout the report. The statistics include city taxes, crop reports, public buildings, and local industries.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Fred A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Interurban Railway Museum

A History of Collin County, Texas

Description: This book gives an overview of Collin County, Texas. The text discusses the geography and prehistoric aspects of the county as well as the history of the people in the region (including Native American tribes and settlers). The book has a bibliography (starting on p. 279) and an index (starting on p. 283).
Date: 1958
Creator: Stambaugh, J. Lee, b. 1889; Stambaugh, Lillian J., b. 1888 & Carroll, H. Bailey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

[News Script: Renner]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Research Foundation's annual field day in Renner.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Riding-Plows.

Description: Patent for "an improved riding or sulky plow which shall be so constructed that the plow may be readily lowered into, raised from, and adjusted to run at any desired depth in the ground, and which may be adjusted to take or leave land, and to hold the carriage level when both wheels are running upon unplowed land, and when one wheel is running in a furrow." (Lines 14-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Florance, James L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Hame Fasteners

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvement in hame-fasteners. "This fastening can be readily fastened and unfastened without taking off the gloves, and with cold and benumbed fingers, and when fastened will hold the hames securely" (lines 35-38). Including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1877
Creator: Poland, Tunis H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for "a novel form of baling-press which will be readily transportable and owing to its peculiar construction can be manipulated by hand, a still further object being to provide such an improved baling-press that the wire ties can be wrapped around the bale after its formation easily and quickly and the bale can be readily removed from the press after it has been wired." (Lines 16-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1897
Creator: Hawk, Nathaniel H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "an improved gang-plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plows to take or leave land, and which will enable the wheels to be adjusted closer to or farther from the plows, as may be desired." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Cummins, John R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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