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Business Interior with Staff

Description: Copy negative of Cameron and Phillips Hardware store and staff. There is a sign on the wall that reads "studebaker wagons." Twelve men stand in the the hardware store, including George L. Paxton Sr. Items visible in the store include feeding bowls, pots, ceramic serving utensils, wheelbarrows, wood burning ovens, and lamps. Most men in the photograph are wearing hats and mustaches.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Compressed-Air Machine.

Description: Patent for an "an automatically acting compressed air machine where a reciprocating action is desired" (lines 9-11) "which will be automatic and positive in its action, which may be operated with minimum amount of compressed fluid, and which has relatively few parts that might get out of order" (lines 12-18).
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Saurenmann, Jacob Gilmore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Articulating Plate

Description: Patent for "new and useful articulating plate" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: April 11, 1900
Creator: Driskill, T. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

PRINTER'S QUOIN

Description: Patent for Printer's Quoin. "The invention relates to printers' lock-ups; and its object is to provide a new and improved printer's quoin..." (lines 8-10) and illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Decker, William Scott
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ant-Trap.

Description: Patent for ant traps that has a body portion with upper and lower inlet chambers. The trap is connected with the upper inlet chamber by a passage-way through which the ants may pass.
Date: December 19, 1911
Creator: Seifert, Adolf R. R. & Campbell, Bertha
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Machine.

Description: Patent for “a new and improved well-drilling machine adapted to be driven by horse-power and arranged to permit of actuating the drilling tools for drilling purposes and to allow of conveniently and quickly raising the tools from the well…” (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Moore, Robert Burns
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Scrubber And Mop.

Description: Patent for the combination of a scrubber, a mop, and a water receptacle to supply the cleansing liquid to the surface that is being cleaned and it provides a mechanism for wringing the mop.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Lee, Bryant
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose-Coupling.

Description: Patent for new usability improvements for hose coupling, designed for novice users, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Stephens, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Antifriction device for sucker rods.

Description: Patent for "an improved antifriction device for use in connection with inclosed traveling rods and the like to reduce the wear occasioned by the rubbing of the rod in its casing, and at the same time to so far reduce the area of said antifriction device which projects from the rod as to interpose the least possible obstruction to the free passage of material in the casing."
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William Leslie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cleaning Implement.

Description: Patent for a cleaning tool for cleaning chicken coops, sidewalk edges, or removing ice, which combines a scraper/digger, broom, and brush and which fits in small spaces.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Kuettner, Max
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Thinner.

Description: Patent for improvements in corn-thinners for removing excess stalks in the field by constructing the “upper portion’s blade flat to present straight side cutting edges, and having the lower portion curved transversely to present to a lower semicircular cutting edge.” (Lines 53-56.) With this design, the operator would not have to stoop over, making the thinning operation easier. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Horn, Henry G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for an oil-burner, “and it has for its object to provide a construction in which stream will be admitted to the oil or commingled therewith in sufficient quantity to aid combustion…” (lines 11-15) including illustrations.
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Chandler, William E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Two Men Holding Tools]

Description: Photograph of Amon Carter, to the left, holding a shovel on his shoulder. Wiley Gulick Clarkson, an architect, stands to the left with a pickax over his shoulder. A dog sits behind Clarkson, and cars are visible in the background.
Date: February 24, 1936
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

[Letter to an Editor of a Newspaper]

Description: Newspaper clipping containing several letters to the editor published in a Waco newspaper, starting with a poem from " Portfolio of a Deceased Confederate Soldier " and commentary providing insight on the soldier's life, family, property, and death. Other letters and articles discuss horse thieves that were shot, the Election Law that had recently been passed on the front, with text on the back describing recent events and anecdotes and bounties, with advertisements.
Date: August 1872
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[News Script: Deceptograph]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant County sheriffs testing a new polygraph lie detector machine, known as the "Detectograph."
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Parking lift]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a demonstration of an elevated parking lift device in Dallas designed to increase the capacity of parking lots.
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rainmaker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a scientist experimenting with a cloud seeding device at the Grand Prairie Airport.
Date: May 9, 1956
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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