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[News Clip: Boys clubs in competition]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a sports competition event between two local boys clubs in Fort Worth.
Date: July 26, 1955
Duration: 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Trolley Cars in Downtown Port Arthur]

Description: Photograph of four trolley cars in downtown Port Arthur, TX. The cars are square with a dome roof. They have two large windows on either end and each side wall has a row of windows. Large of crowds of people are standing on downtown sidewalks by the trolley cars. A line of electrical poles is running to their left alongside the tracks. The first building on the left is clearly marked as a billiards hall.
Date: unknown
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Billiard room, 2]

Description: Photograph of a billiard room with a billiard table in the center of the room. The room has a low ceiling and wood-paneled walls. There are chairs, a bed, a floor shelf, and patterned curtains throughout the room.
Date: 195X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Billiard room]

Description: Photograph of a billiard room with a billiard table in the center of the room. The room has a low ceiling and wood-paneled walls. There are chairs, a bed, a floor shelf, and patterned curtains throughout the room.
Date: 195X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a man playing pool]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man playing pool. He reaches for the white cue ball with one hand and holds up a stick in the other. He smiles widely and looks down at the pool table, away from the camera.
Date: 196X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a billiard table in a room]

Description: Photograph of a view inside a large interior space. A billiard table is situated in the center of the room. On the wood-paneled wall to the left, a desk sits in front of a window that is covered with patterned curtains. An aquarium and a couch are partially visible placed against the brick wall on the right.
Date: 1957
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[South Fifth Street and Austin Street, Waco]

Description: Photograph of South Fifth Street and Austin Street in Waco, Texas. Along this corner is the R. T. Dennis & Co. house furnishing store in the Dennis Building at center, the Wood Bros. male clothing store, Chris's Cafe, and the "Grocery So Different" to the left of the Dennis Building, the Oriental Billards and Dominos building on the other side of the road. Cars and bicycles are parked along the curb, and people walk across the street and along the sidewalk.
Date: July 5, 1957
Creator: Gildersleeve
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Triangle for Billiard-Balls.

Description: Patent for an improved triangle for billiard balls that consists of sides, movable doors on the bottom edge, a fixed guide on the side of the triangle, and springs to hold the doors.
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination Pool and Billiard Table.

Description: Patent for a combination pool and billiard table. The table has plugs for the pockets, which can be used to convert the table from a pool to a billiard table. There is also a circular removable covering, which converts the table from a game table to an ordinary household table.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Lee, Hoard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Billiard-Ball Holder.

Description: Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Billiard Cue

Description: Patent for an improved billiard cue with a tip that can be quickly and easily removed and replaced by another and that will be adapted to hold a quantity of powdered chalk for use when needed.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Farrand, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Billiard Cue

Description: Patent for a billiard cue. This invention is designed with removable tips. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Borroughs, John Vertie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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