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[Men looking at tables of books]

Photograph of a men browsing through books from a table with a wide variety of books on it. The men are in a large tent with several tables that have books on them and other people are shown in the photograph browsing through the collection of books.
Date: June 29, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from J.M. Crockett to R.P. Crockett, May 29 1879] (open access)

[Letter from J.M. Crockett to R.P. Crockett, May 29 1879]

Letter from J.M. Crockett to R.P. Crockett. The letter is dated May 29, 1879.
Date: May 29, 1879
Creator: Crockett, J.M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Letters to Oswald

Photograph of a letter to Lee Harvey Oswald from the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The letter is dated May 29, 1963.
Date: March 29, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feria del libro (open access)

Feria del libro

This article deals with promoting local Hispanic authors by conducting a book fair in Dallas where they might be able to create contacts with publishers. Both the original Spanish article and the English translation are included.
Date: June 29, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in Targets for Shooting-Galleries (open access)

Improvement in Targets for Shooting-Galleries

Patent for a shooting gallery target that releases balls when hit in the center.
Date: May 29, 1877
Creator: Hoshall, David W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wash Boiler. (open access)

Wash Boiler.

Patent for a new and improved wash-boiler. This design "consists in, first, the combination of the boiler and revolving drum placed therein, with the steam-generator secured to the bottom of the boiler, and a steam motor or engine for revolving the drum; second, the combination of the boiler, a revolving-drum placed therein, and the steam-generator with a tank for clear water, and a suitable chamber and valves for connecting the tank and generator together" (lines 13-22).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Wilson, Homer T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Time-Signal for Telephones (open access)

Time-Signal for Telephones

Patent for standard time-signaling instruments and consists of "an instrument for and a manner of signaling standard time through an entire system or systems of telephones."(lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 29, 1882
Creator: Oram, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Call Box. (open access)

Telephone Call Box.

Patent for reduction of movements in an improved telephone call box with illustrations.
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Oram, John M.; Sutton, Henry M. & Garrett, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus (open access)

Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus

Patent for "a more simple, efficient, and convenient arrangement than has hitherto been known" for fire extinguishers (lines 16-17).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: Stamps, William Oscar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Guard for Cars. (open access)

Safety-Guard for Cars.

Patent for a safety-guard for cars that use a flexible netting in front of the car and has a double frame for support. It folds compactly when not in use.
Date: January 29, 1895
Creator: Champlin, William B., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree. (open access)

Whiffletree.

Patent for an all-metal one-piece whiffletree of "strength, economy, durability, and lightness" (lines 21-22) with solid metal ends that interlock with trace-hooks and prevent "the trace-coupling from becoming accidentally disconnected" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Arc Lamp. (open access)

Electric Arc Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved electric-arc lamp. This design is "for utilizing a part of the magnetic field of the electro-magnet to act as a retarding medium or a brake to the carbon-holder, which consists of a system of gear-wheels provided with a ratchet and pawl . . . actuated from rack-teeth cut in the side of the upper-carbon rod, on the last spindle of which is adjustably secured a disk of soft iron or other magnetic material, so located as to be within the influence of the magnetic field of one end of the electro-magnet" (lines 36-47).
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current-Controler or Rheostat. (open access)

Current-Controler or Rheostat.

Patent for an electric-current control or rheostat to be used when a "close, accurate, and absolute graduation of the current is necessary" (lines 15-16), in places "where a very delicate graduation is necessary either in passing the plain galvanic current or where the current is used for producing anesthesia" (lines 19-21).
Date: December 29, 1896
Creator: Werner, Ernest Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a cotton gin that removes lint-cotton from the saws using an air-suction mechanism instead of a brush, which pose a fire hazard and can impair the gin's effectiveness. An air-blast mechanism is also an ineffective method of cleaning lint-cotton from the saws. The air-suction mechanism sucks "the lint-cotton directly from the rear portions of the saw-teeth independently of and without a brush, and an apparatus for preventing the withdrawn lint-cotton from passing into and through the air-suction apparatus" (lines 84-89).
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 29, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1893 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 29, 1893
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1891 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 29, 1891
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1888 (open access)

The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 29, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1889 (open access)

The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 29, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1895 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 29, 1895
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1894 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1894

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 29, 1894
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1896 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1896

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 29, 1896
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1894 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1894

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 29, 1894
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1897 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1897

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 29, 1897
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History