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Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n combination with the base, the frame having the cross-bars, churn provided with a dasher-shaft, a second shaft passing through cross-bars and connected with the dasher-shaft, pinions . . . secured to the shaft and adapted to rest upon the cross-bars . . . a[nother] shaft journaled in [one of] the cross-bar[s], and a mutilated gear engaging the pinions" (lines 16-24).
Date:
June 5, 1888
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the radial arms of the wheel-frame and the vertical pivot-posts thereon, the sails or fans pivoted to said posts, the pivoted detents, and the pivoted governing-levers to which said detents are connected, said levers carrying adjustable weights" (lines 16-23).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Witherspoon, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements to double plows, so that they are pivotally connected and can move independently of the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
Payne, Hiram Ezkiel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Scraper
Patent for new "construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-11) to improve cotton choppers and scrapers, with illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Rouse, Samuel James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Charles B. Moore, March 5, 1860]
Letter to Charles B. Moore from Henry S. Moore regarding plans to build a cotton gin and how the work on the building would be done. On the first page is a drawing of the building and the second page contains an estimate of costs for construction.
Date:
March 5, 1860
Creator:
Moore, Henry S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Charles B. Moore, April 5, 1860]
Letter to Charles B. Moore from Henry S. Moore regarding the state of machinery in a mill.
Date:
April 5, 1860
Creator:
Moore, Henry S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 5, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 5, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Van Landingham, Lewis E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Pen.
Patent for a new and improved fountain pen that provides a “novel means for manipulating the compressible reservoir” (lines 13-14) of the pen and of which the contents "may readily be fed manually, to the ink-applying portion of the pen" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Edwin Ruthven
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein-holder.
Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Campbell, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Soot Arrester for Stacks
Patent for a smoke and soot arrester that may be used to contain products of combustion from smoke stacks or chimneys. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 5, 1908
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard of Cora Stone with her roses]
Postcard of two women and a man standing outside of a house with two dogs sitting in front of them. A handwritten note on the front of the postcard says: "N. B. Here is something to keep the crows away. Where my roses were in bloom. " A handwritten message on the back from Cora Stone to Miss Vonnie Moseley reads: "Your letter received and was glad to hear from you. Am sending you in today's mail the waist pattern, also my skirt pattern. All well except colds. Pa thinks of going to Carroe (or Conroe?) this week, if so will go to see you all. Will write later. Yours, C. S. (Cora Stone is written in ink on a later date)" The postcard is addressed to Miss Vonnie Moseley, Mount Sylvan, Texas, Route 1.
Date:
December 5, 1910
Creator:
Stone, Cora
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Snow]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about snowfall in North Texas.
Date:
January 5, 1960
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1943
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 5, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 5, 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1941
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 5, 1941
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 5, 1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1945
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 5, 1945
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1942
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 5, 1942
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1942
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 5, 1942
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1940
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 5, 1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1945
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 5, 1945
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1942
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 5, 1942
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1922
Weekly newspaper from Deport, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1922
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History