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[Os-Aple Jubilee Week Parade]

Description: The 'Os-Aple' jubilee was the 1912 celebration marking 60 years of existence for the City named 'El Paso'. El Paso was originally settled and named as the Franklin Settlement in 1849. The Franklin Settlement was later renamed to 'El Paso' in 1852; hence the 1912 jubilee celebration for the City of El Paso, Texas. According to the El Paso Herald, 24 October 1912 front page, "Military Parade Proves Jubilee's Biggest Feature - Over Two Thousand Infantrymen, Cavalrymen, Artillerymen, Hospital Co… more
Date: October 24, 1912
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: El Paso Public Library
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[News Clip: Transit]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 27, 1983, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Trolley bus at TXSSAR Board of Managers meeting]

Description: Photograph of a red trolley bus at the October 5, 2019 Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution Board of Managers meeting. The bus is facing to the right of the camera. Its doors are open, and a member of the TXSSAR Color Guard can be seen sitting in one of the seats, facing away from the camera.
Date: October 5, 2019
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Street car]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about seven out of service Dallas streetcars being bought by Boston.
Date: October 2, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Street car]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about seven out of service Dallas streetcars being bought by Boston.
Date: October 2, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[DAR members on trolley bus at TXSSAR BOM meeting]

Description: Photograph of members of the Daughters of the American Revolution on a trolley bus at the October 5, 2019 TXSSAR Board of Managers meeting. They are sitting in bench seats, looking at the camera and smiling.
Date: October 5, 2019
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of United States National Bank Building Construction, #3]

Description: Photograph of the construction phase for the United States National Bank Building. Construction workers work in the construction site with people walking along the street and a trolley traveling by. Wood structures and logs are piled on the left side of the photograph and established buildings fill in the background.
Date: October 27, 1923
Creator: Westlake Construction Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.305440 -94.792733
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Trolley-Catcher.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient trolley pole that can be "dropped to a position of safety when the trolley wheel leaves the wire, whereby the pole is prevented from coming in contact with the supports of the trolley wire, the feeders, &c." (lines 10-14). The pole is easily re-engaged.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Cobb, Woodson D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch Operating Device

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient design for an operating switch for use on street-railway cars to enable a motorman to quickly throw a switch or set switch without leaving the platform of the car.
Date: October 15, 1901
Creator: Tanner, Calvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Car-Step.

Description: Patent for folding steps attached to a railway car or trolley, which are easily operated by the conductor and when folded block the exit of the car to prevent passengers leaving or entering without the steps.
Date: October 29, 1907
Creator: Felkner, William G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a sprin… more
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Baade, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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