Federal Disaster Assistance after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav, and Ike (open access)

Federal Disaster Assistance after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav, and Ike

Report that provides information on federal financial assistance provided to the Gulf States after major disasters were declared in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in response to the widespread destruction that resulted from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005 and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008. This includes a brief summary of each hurricane and a discussion concerning federal to state cost-shares.
Date: July 5, 2013
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R. & Nagel, Jared Conrad
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commission Talking Points (open access)

Commission Talking Points

Commission Talking Points concerning Red River Army Depot.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Ft. Sam Houston, TX (open access)

Base Input - Ft. Sam Houston, TX

Base Input - Ft. Sam Houston, TX. Briefing chart and maps.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Sheppard Air Force Base, TX (open access)

Base Input - Sheppard Air Force Base, TX

Base Input - Sheppard Air Force Base, TX.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
BRAC Commission Analysis - Texas, Recommended Texas Base Realignments and Closures (open access)

BRAC Commission Analysis - Texas, Recommended Texas Base Realignments and Closures

BRAC Commission Analysis - Texas, Recommended Texas Base Realignments and Closures.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
BRAC Analysis - Notes and Research (open access)

BRAC Analysis - Notes and Research

Contains final deliberations from Army Team Analyst Elizabeth Bieri regarding Red River Army Depot, TX
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commissioner's  Base Visit Book, NAS Corpus Christi, Texas (open access)

Commissioner's Base Visit Book, NAS Corpus Christi, Texas

Base Visit Book - Commissioner's Base Visit Book, NAS Corpus Christi, Texas. Commissioner James T. Hill, BRAC, 07 July 2005.
Date: August 5, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Correspondence - From Memebers of the Senate To Chairman Principi (open access)

Executive Correspondence - From Memebers of the Senate To Chairman Principi

Kay Bailey Hutchison, John Cornyn, Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor
Date: August 5, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter from Roger TenNapel to the BRAC Commission (open access)

Letter from Roger TenNapel to the BRAC Commission

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Port Industries of Corpus Christi President Roger TenNapel to the BRAC Commission regarding a resolution to support Naval Station Ingleside in Texas.
Date: August 5, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integration of Fort Sam Houston (open access)

Integration of Fort Sam Houston

Disregard restriction of header and footer MEMORANDUM FOR Chairman, Headquarters and Support Joint Cross Service Group (HSA JCSG) Chairman. Medical Joint Cross Service Group (MED JCSG) Chairman, Supply and Storage Joint Cross Service Group (S&S JCSG) Chairman, Technical Joint Cross Sewice Group (TECH JCSG)
Date: September 5, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dept of the Army Auditing Docs, Report "Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Corpus Christi Army Depot, Audit Report" (30 Jun 04) (open access)

Dept of the Army Auditing Docs, Report "Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Corpus Christi Army Depot, Audit Report" (30 Jun 04)

The Director, The Army Basing Study Group asked SAAG-IMT to validate data that the Study Group and six Joint Cross-Service Groups will use for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 analyses. This memorandum summarizes the results of their validation efforts at Corpus Christi Army Depot.
Date: September 5, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes. (open access)

Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.

Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Smitham, Nicholas L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Actuating Device for Circuit Closers (open access)

Actuating Device for Circuit Closers

Patent for an actuating device for circuit closers. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Young, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device. (open access)

Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.

Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hood, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Structure (open access)

Building Structure

Patent for a building support structure for bridges, buildings, dams, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Morton, Milo A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Shuck Chopper. (open access)

Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on top of a stationary knife-blade." (Lines 7-19) Illustrations are included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Pluck, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine (open access)

Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine

Patent for convertible mixing and cleaning machine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Stacey, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seal. (open access)

Car-Seal.

Patent for a car seal, made of a long, thin, and narrow metallic strip. When it is looped through two parts of the car body, the ends can be pinned together with sealing irons. This car seal cannot be tampered with without visible evidence showing.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Lawler, Claude B.; Bryan, William A. & Keller, John.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel. (open access)

Car-Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: Clark, Fred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and a cultivator.This invention allows for the raising and lowering the cultivator teeth. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Robertson, Newton K. & Jones, Isaac W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Base-Ball Score-Card (open access)

Base-Ball Score-Card

Patent for a baseball score card that has spaces for putting the players name on the card from both teams on the same side.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Dealey, Walter A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History