T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore (open access)

T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
Date: 1982
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instrument, System and Method for Automated Low Cost Atmospheric Measurements (open access)

Instrument, System and Method for Automated Low Cost Atmospheric Measurements

Patent relating to an instrument, system and method for automated low cost atmospheric measurements.
Date: May 11, 2006
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Waller, William T. & Nebgen, Gilbert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Receipt for taxes paid, December 1, 1902] (open access)

[Receipt for taxes paid, December 1, 1902]

Receipt for taxes paid to the city of Montague, Montague County, Texas on December 1, 1902 by Levi Perryman.
Date: December 1, 1902
Creator: Alcorn, G. W.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Adequacy of the School Transportation Systems of Montague County, Texas (open access)

The Adequacy of the School Transportation Systems of Montague County, Texas

In this study an attempt is made to determine the adequacy of the school transportation systems of Montague County, Texas.
Date: 1950
Creator: Allen, Bill N.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can-Opener. (open access)

Can-Opener.

Patent for a can opener, which has a movable blade to allow for easy cleaning.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: Allen, Jasper McDonnel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 28, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 4, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 11, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 25, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 1, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 8, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 15, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 22, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 29, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1950 (open access)

The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1950

Weekly newspaper from Bowie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 6, 1950
Creator: Applegate, C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope for letter from G.L. Arledge to Levi Perryman] (open access)

[Envelope for letter from G.L. Arledge to Levi Perryman]

Envelope for letter from G.L. Arledge to Levi Perryman for tax receipts.
Date: unknown
Creator: Arledge, G. L.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shutter-Operating Attachment For Photographic Cameras. (open access)

Shutter-Operating Attachment For Photographic Cameras.

Patent for shuttering operating attachment for photographic cameras. Small mechanical device that is operated by a thumb-lever that causes the shutter of the photographic camera to operate.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Atwood, Harry C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator that has its frame and attachments are mounted on carrying-wheels, and the plows depend on the wheels. It is operated more easily than other cultivators.
Date: May 28, 1895
Creator: Aubrey, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt of Levi Perryman, August 3, 1880] (open access)

[Receipt of Levi Perryman, August 3, 1880]

Received of Levi Perryman through W. A. Morris the amount of $9.00 for costs in case No. 910.
Date: August 3, 1880
Creator: Bagwill, W. H.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pruning Implement. (open access)

Pruning Implement.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient pruning implement meant to prune trees, cutting brush, and trimming hedges. It has a reciprocating knife, an improved hatchet-blade, and an extensible saw-blade "which is seated within a groove or recess in the shank of the implement and capable of being extended and held in operative position by means of a retaining-spring" (lines 16-20).
Date: November 12, 1895
Creator: Baiey, George M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an improved windmill, a wind-driven wheel which will operate with the wind blowing in any direction and without the necessity of a typical vane and which produces a maximum velocity with a minimum amount of wind.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Bartlett, Robert S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Needle Threader for Sewing Machines. (open access)

Needle Threader for Sewing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved sewing-machine needle-threader. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the slide-bearing of the needle-bar, of the slide, its stop and spring, and the pivoted funnel-guide having a squared bearing to engage the spring, and a face-groove in its small end to engage the needle" (lines 73-78).
Date: September 2, 1884
Creator: Bellah, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History