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[Letter from F. H. Kollock to H. K. Redway, January 6, 1876] (open access)

[Letter from F. H. Kollock to H. K. Redway, January 6, 1876]

Letter from F. H. Kollock to H. K. Redway which states that Kollock has enclosed the warranty deed from J. Q. Brigham. Kollock details that he has also included the certificate of register of deeds from the county, showing that the mortgage has been "satisfied of record."
Date: January 6, 1876
Creator: Kollock, F. H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Check From the Bank of Canada, Kansas (open access)

Check From the Bank of Canada, Kansas

Check for $50.12 dated January sixth,1891. Isac Goert received of D. Meier - Bank of Canada, Kansas.
Date: January 6, 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stock-Car (open access)

Stock-Car

Patent for an improvement on patent no. 326,591 so as "to enable a series of troughs in a stock-car to be extended toward and withdrawn 'from a position in line with the heads of the stock simultaneously; second, to provide for a vibrating water-trough a self-folding end support; third, to provide a car-door for the entrance of the stock which is capable of being folded and will unfold to close the door-opening in line with the inner surface of the car; fourth, to provide a sliding rear support for a folding car-door when closed; fifth, to enable the vibrating stall-partitions to be released from a horizontally-retained position from either side of the car; sixth, to enable one exterior end portion of a stock-car to be folded in line with the end hay-racks; seventh, to combine a folding exterior end portion of a car with the interior hay-rack" (lines 18-36).
Date: January 6, 1891
Creator: Stoner, Jacob B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Parsons Weekly Blade. (Parsons, Kan.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900 (open access)

The Parsons Weekly Blade. (Parsons, Kan.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Parsons, Kansas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Plaindealer. (Topeka, Kan.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900 (open access)

The Plaindealer. (Topeka, Kan.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Topeka, Kansas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 1900
Creator: Harris, Will
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll, January 2, 1915] (open access)

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll, January 2, 1915]

Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll discussing additional information regarding the consolidation of the 11th and 12th seniority districts and raised legality regarding the situation as a result of the delayed response from a President Carter and the Joint Protective Board.
Date: January 2, 1915
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to W. S. Carter, January 3, 1916] (open access)

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to W. S. Carter, January 3, 1916]

Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to W. S. Carter discussing prior meetings and arrangements of the consolidation of the 11th and 12th seniority districts through the Joint Protective Board. The author also asks if he has the authority to consolidate these districts based on votes of the district members.
Date: January 3, 1916
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll, January 6, 1916] (open access)

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll, January 6, 1916]

Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll discussing correspondence between the Chairman and President Carter regarding the consolidation of the seniority districts. The union is not in a position to consolidate districts until the Joint Protective Board is in session and willing to revise the schedule.
Date: January 6, 1916
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit (open access)

Drill-Bit

Patent for new improvement in drill-bits. The object of the invention is to "provide the driller with advanced knowledge of the formation into which he is about to extend his main hole".
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Smith, Primus W.; Bookhout, John J. & Monce, Edwin W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 8, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 8, 1944]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Hutson Hotels stationary, discussing flying a Cessna to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, her current layover in Amarillo and pending trip back to Wichita. In postcript, she asks the recipient to send a friend a fruit box.
Date: January 8, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 14, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 14, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing being unable to deliver a plane due to bad winter weather, her friend Marion, new uniforms, and gifts from and letters to Dick Colby's mother. Typed on Friendly Hotels stationary.
Date: January 14, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 20, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 20, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing ferrying aircraft and trouble with weather, flying between Dallas, Wichita, Pampa, and Walnut Ridge, her friends, and food. Written on Hotel Chisca (Memphis) starionary.
Date: January 20, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 26, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 26, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes (probably to her father) discussing being grounded due to weather, a letter from the recipient and bonds, cigarettes, mail, finances, flying a new plane out of Long Beach, Army regulations, and her friends Bobby and Marion. Written on Friendly Hotels stationary.
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Orders #5] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #5]

Orders for an Air Force pilot and two WASP to ferry planes from Love Field in Dallas, Texas to Wichita, Kansas.
Date: January 27, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. R. Atchison to Blanche Perry] (open access)

[Letter from H. R. Atchison to Blanche Perry]

Envelope and letter from H. R. Atchison of the Church of Christ in Wellington, Kansas to Perry describing church interior in preparation for a baptistry painting.
Date: January 27, 1944
Creator: Atchison, H. R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[AAF Pilot School (Basic) Operations Memorandum, January 28, 1944] (open access)

[AAF Pilot School (Basic) Operations Memorandum, January 28, 1944]

A memorandum from the operations office at Independence Army Air Field discussing reports of "padding" of flying time. The memo is signed by Gayle Snell.
Date: January 28, 1944
Creator: Taylor, Bryant
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Order #6] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Order #6]

Orders for several Air Force Pilots and WASP to ferry aircraft from Wichita Kansas to air bases in various U.S. cities.
Date: January 28, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Orders #8] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #8]

Orders for several Air Force pilots and WASP to ferry various aircraft from Wichita, Kansas to Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lt. Robert Thompson to Mickey McLernon, January 31, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Lt. Robert Thompson to Mickey McLernon, January 31, 1944]

Letter from Lieutenant Robert Thompson to Mickey McLernon discussing aviation, weather interfering with classes, and his eyesight. On the back of the envelope is a message that reads " Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country ".
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: Thompson, Robert A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum Receipt #4] (open access)

[Memorandum Receipt #4]

Army delivery receipt certifying that WASP Gayle D. Ewing ferried a PT-13 D model aircraft to an air base in Fort Dix, New Jersey to be installed with a radio and bombsight equipment.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces War Department
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Investigation of the Zinc-Lead Deposits in Horizons Below the Grand Falls Chert, Galena District, Cherokee County, Kansas (open access)

Investigation of the Zinc-Lead Deposits in Horizons Below the Grand Falls Chert, Galena District, Cherokee County, Kansas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the zinc-lead deposits in Cherokee County, Kansas. As stated in the introduction, "the purpose of this report is to present the factual data derived from both the preliminary examination and the subsequent field work." (p. 3). This report includes tables, and maps.
Date: January 1949
Creator: Ruhl, Otto & Ballinger, Homer J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to A. S. Cornway, January 4, 1950] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to A. S. Cornway, January 4, 1950]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to A. S. Conway informing that he is distressed to hear the struggles of the war.
Date: January 4, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Hoskins Held in Kansas Bank Holdup] (open access)

[News Script: Hoskins Held in Kansas Bank Holdup]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Joe Herbert Hoskins, who will be tried in Kansas for a bank robbery. He was arrested by FBI agents in Dallas last night.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Rescue] (open access)

[News Script: Rescue]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a man from Wichita, Kansas being rescued by fireman and police from the frozen Arkansas River.
Date: January 31, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library