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Corn-Sheller. (open access)

Corn-Sheller.

Patent for improvement in corn-shellers; in which “it consists in a perforated casting provided with radial teeth or projections which extend toward its center and which is to be secured to a support having an opening through it, combined with a double-ended handle which has an opening through its center and teeth projecting from the opening.” (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Bander, Charles Bornet
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Auger. (open access)

Post Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-auger. This design "is to improve that class of post-augers whose blades are made adjustable so as to make large or small holes. They have ordinarily been adjusted by means of a bolt, nut, and slot in the blade; but the blades work out of correspondence with each other, the nuts becoming more or less loosened. [This design] dispense[s] with bolt, nut, and slot" (lines 15-23).
Date: October 22, 1889
Creator: Harris, Green Berry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for car-couplings.
Date: December 22, 1874
Creator: McCormick, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Andrew Melontree, June 22, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Andrew Melontree, June 22, 2015

Interview with Andrew Melontree, a retired lawyer from Marlin, Texas. Melontree discusses his upbringing, education, experiences with discrimination and Jim Crow, his military service in the Air Force in the Korean War, his work as a laboratory technician, and his civil rights activism in Tyler.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Melontree, Andrew & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling. (open access)

Thill-Coupling.

Patent for carriage and wagon couplings, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1891
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Anthrax] (open access)

[News Script: Anthrax]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas animal health officials who said that the anthrax situation in Falls county in central Texas is now stable.
Date: July 22, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Deputies] (open access)

[News Script: Deputies]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Falls County sheriff Brady Pamplin who called for an investigation of the Austin State Hospital, where an man is accused of fatally shooting two of his deputies.
Date: August 22, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Wigley, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard with a View Looking Down a Road Between Trees]

Postcard with a photograph of a view looking down "Lover's Lane" positioned underneath a grove of trees; the caption reads: "You had better bring Harry down here. What you think?" The note on the reverse side of the card reads: "Am having some joy - so sorry you would not ride with me Sunday. Lots of girls here. I leave tomorrow. At home about Sun./six."
Date: August 22, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History