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[Photograph of Remains of Hardware Store]

Description: Photograph of a heavily damaged hardware store after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Brick walls have been demolished by the storm. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "What is left of a hardware and implement store on Water Street." and "E.H. Caldwell Hdw. and Impl. The family company is still in business on Agnes Street - 1983 Bob Clark." Also a note, "Cotton bales are some of hundreds that washed in from the compress on Municipal Wharf - on waves they battered the downtown. C.L. Baskin" more
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
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Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

[News Script: New top Texas weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about rain and occasional thunderstorms which again are roaming the Texas coastal regions where turbulent weather erupted during the night.
Date: June 26, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Inter-Office Letter from Thomas L. James to Isaac Herbert Kempner, August 10, 1951]

Description: Inter-office letter from Thomas L. James to Isaac Herbert Kempner mentioning about the weather and the scarcity in finding cotton pickers. He mentions how the next few days would be busy with ginning the bales and includes about the cattle, which is doing okay, and plants being dehydrated because of no rain. Then he adds about his plans of going on fishing at Port Aransas.
Date: August 10, 1951
Creator: James, Thomas L.
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Partner: Rosenberg Library

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, John Thomas
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vacuum Cotton-Picking Machine.

Description: Patent for vacuum cotton picking machine and improvements, such as it is more portable, a receiver for the cotton and discharge of the cotton, and an improved cotton picking nozzle.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Chaney, Bailey E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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