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[Letter from Dr. Charles A. Rush, Jr. to Linda L. Ramsey, January 6, 1987] (open access)

[Letter from Dr. Charles A. Rush, Jr. to Linda L. Ramsey, January 6, 1987]

Letter from Dr. Charles A. Rush, Jr. to Linda L. Ramsey endorsing the nomination of Dr. May Owen for the Medical College of Pennsylvania's Board Award. Included is a biography on Dr. Owen and a list of highlights from Dr. Owen's career.
Date: January 6, 1987
Creator: Rush, Charles A., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Falls County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 6, 1874
Creator: Wise, Louis C.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Rosebud] captions transcript

[News Clip: Rosebud]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a police investigation regarding a murder in Rosebud, Texas.
Date: January 6, 1996, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Tom Connally to Daniel W. Kempner, August 6, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from Tom Connally to Daniel W. Kempner, August 6, 1952]

Letter from Tom Connally to Daniel W. Kempner offering to write letters of introduction to various American ambassadors for Mr. Kempner's upcoming trip to Europe.
Date: August 6, 1952
Creator: Connally, Tom, 1877-1963
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "relates to that class of windmills in which semicircular wings are employed upon a vertical shaft; and it has for its object to provide simple and efficient means to govern the speed of the same, and also to throw the windmill into or out of operation when desired . . . A further object of the invention is to provide a windmill of the above-mentioned class which will possess merit in point of durability, inexpensiveness, and general efficiency" (lines 11-21).
Date: November 6, 1888
Creator: Moore, Charles M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Operating Windmill Pumps. (open access)

Gearing for Operating Windmill Pumps.

Patent for new and improved gearing for windmill pumps. This design has for its object "to raise water from wells by suitable mechanism connected with a fan, from which the power is communicated to the pump through said mechanism" (lines 13-16).
Date: September 6, 1887
Creator: Jordan, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History