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Cloth-Bolt Holder.

Description: Patent for a cloth bolt holder, which attaches to a counter and allows for easy rolling and unrolling of the bolt.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Flemister, Ernest T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Alta Berry to Linnet White, September 16, 1909]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Alta Berry and is addressed to Linnet White. In this letter, Berry informs White of the goings-on in McKinney. Berry discusses community news, details Minnie's plans to visit several friends before she goes back to Weatherford, and notes that the weather has been hot and windy, making everything dusty.She mention that John's Cotton crop is good, that he has planted cane, and notes that his corn was not a good crop. She stat… more
Date: September 16, 1909
Creator: Berry, Alta
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Saddlery shop of A.D. McNabb in Richmond, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the inside of saddlery shop of A.D. McNabb in Richmond, Texas about 1909. Men are left to right: ? Pollock, Ludwig Varga, and John Varga" as written on the back in blue ink. Rows of saddles on saddle racks in left foreground. Harnesses and reins hanging from ceiling in foreground. Horse collars hanging from ceiling in background. Glass topped cases on right. Man on right wearing dark apron. Man in middle (left) wearing slacks, jacket, white shirt, and hat; and man on left wearing … more
Date: 1909
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Children on the running board of a motor car]

Description: A photograph of three children standing on the running board of a motor car with the top up. The reverse side includes a manufacturing stamp that reads, "PRINTED AT THE GIBSON KODAK STORE - JACKSONVILLE, FLA." This item was originally part of a scrapbook assembled by Thomas Norwood Carswell, largely containing items related to his time at Simmons College (Abilene, Texas).
Date: [1909,1915]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Postcard of Austin Avenue Looking West]

Description: Postcard of Austin Avenue, looking West, in Waco, Texas. Text in the bottom right corner of the card's front reads "hand-colored." A handwritten message on the back of the card reads "Stopped at Waco over night enroute here and just had time after getting up to get some cards and catch an eleven oclock train. M." The card is addressed to Mary Euglehart of South Bend, Indiana.
Date: June 21, 1909
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Lace-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a lace cabinet which has many drawers with holders for spools of lace or ribbon and a slot in the front of the drawer, where the lace is pulled through to show what it is and allow easy dispensing of the product.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Thornton, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Post-Card Stand.

Description: Patent for a post card stand, which turns by a crank mechanism to show all the postcards on the rack.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Bishop, Marvin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Show-Case.

Description: Patent for a show case for goods in stores, which noes not require taking the goods in and out of the case to show them to customers.
Date: September 7, 1909
Creator: Ludeman, Bernard W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sign.

Description: Patent for a rotating metal sign, which does not warp from the turning action.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: Dazey, Nathan P. & Hall, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Self-Indexing Loose-Leaf Ledger.

Description: Patent for a self-indexing loose leaf ledger, which has vertical alphabetical tabs on the side of the book for surname indexing and horizontal alphabetical tabs on the bottom and top of pages for indexing first and second initials. This allows an account to be easily found in the book and not be mixed up with one with the same surname.
Date: November 16, 1909
Creator: Schwander, Peter W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Downtown Midland Ruins After Fire]

Description: Photograph of Downtown Midland, viewed from the southeast, after a fire that started on April 8, 1909, in the Llano Hotel. The hotel, mostly destroyed with some brick walls standing, is at center in front of the water tower, having collapsed due to the fire with debris scattered onto the main roads. The fire also destroyed the Midland Drug Store and Grocery, to the north of the Llano Hotel, leaving a dry goods store (with a Coca-Cola sign along the front) intact. Across the street from the hote… more
Date: April 8, 1909
Partner: Midland Historical Society

Calculator

Description: Patent for a calculator which consists of semicircular device with movable pointers and number indexes printed on it that allows the pointers to be moved to different numbers to produce the answer to a math problem such as calculating the cost of goods sold by the pound in a store.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Goss, George Wilson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cabinet

Description: Patent for a phonograph cabinet which has specialized storage for records with a built in cataloging and record finding system composed of letters running horizontally across the cabinet and numbers on a sliding strip which when put together with a letter will indicate the position of the record.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: Keltz, Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Changeable Exhibitor.

Description: Patent for a changeable exhibitor, which has horizontally and vertically moving rollers for displaying items.
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Williams, Winfield B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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