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Helvig Berndt Home

Description: Photograph of Helvig Berndt's home in Danevang, Texas. The photograph was taken a distance away from the actual home, which can be seen in the back center-left. It is a two-story structure with intersecting gable roofs and several double-hung windows. A barn with a wide gable roof can be seen to the right. Two men are in the foreground on the leftmost part of the image. A horse-drawn wagon joins them. The two men have been identified as Anders H. and Helvig J. Berndt. The photograph has been … more
Date: 1902
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Page 28 of Byrd Williams Jr. scrapbook]

Description: Scrapbook page featuring 5 photos. Pictured on the top left is Byrd Williams Jr.'s horse, Dan. The photo on the top right is the original Cooke County courthouse in Gainesville, Texas, c.1904. The bottom photos feature a man pulling a lever near a train track, a river scene, and an unknown young boy.
Date: 1902/1908
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Whiffletree

Description: Patent for a whiffletree, a type of doubletree, which is part of a horse's harness.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Stansell, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Collar-Blocking Machine.

Description: Patent to improve machines for manufacture of horse-collars, specifically by addressing the shaping of the horse collar, or “blocking.” The patent specifies a collar holder that “conforms to the finished outline of the collar” (line 20), a binding mechanism “brought firmly about the rim of the collar and there held while pressure is brought upon the body of the collar to properly shape it” (lines 21-25), and independent control over the “degree of strain of the binder about the collar and the … more
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Dodson, Roy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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