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Fire Escape. (open access)

Fire Escape.

Patent for a new and improved fire-escape. This design "relates to that class of fire-escapes which embody a long sack or flexible tube mounted upon a frame adapted to be secured in a window and permit the passage of the occupants of the burning building to the ground through said sack or tube. The object of [the] invention is to provide a simple and improved fire-escape of this class which will possess advantages in point of inexpensiveness, ease of application, and general efficiency, and which may be conveniently transported and occupy but little space when not in use" (lines 8-20).
Date: May 29, 1888
Creator: Reimers, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch (open access)

Gate Latch

Patent for a gate latch. Illustration included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Abernathy, James Rubin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Donations] captions transcript

[News Clip: Donations]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: September 29, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Steroid Bust] captions transcript

[News Clip: Steroid Bust]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: August 29, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Anthrax] (open access)

[News Script: Anthrax]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas animal health commission which reports progress in it' s battle against an outbreak of Anthrax in Central Texas.
Date: July 29, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Postcard of Public School Building in Marlin, Texas]

Postcard of the Public School Building in Marlin, Texas. A crowd of individuals poses in front of the building. Text in the bottom left-hand corner of the front of the card reads "Allen's City Drug Store." A handwritten message on the back of the car reads: "Did not fail to post the letter. Now it's up to me. Shirley." The card is addressed to Miss Annie Forsgard of Waco, Texas.
Date: October 29, 1908
Creator: Allen's City Drug Store
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scrub Brush. (open access)

Scrub Brush.

Patent for an invention that combines a mop and a scrub brush into one device. With this device "the mop will travel in the rear of the brush and take up water and scour what may have been passed over by the brush" (lines 10-13) including illustration
Date: September 29, 1905
Creator: Sanders, Ida D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Torbett Sanatorium and Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse]

Postcard of the Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse, Torbett Sanatorium, and Hot Well Pavilion in Marlin Texas. The illustration depicts two or three red brick buildings on the left side and center back of the image and a smaller tan building in the right foreground. The text, "Torbett Sanatorium, Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse, Hot Well Pavilion, Marlin, Texas" is printed in red across the top of the postcard. The correspondence on the back is addressed to "Mrs. E.P. Winters."
Date: August 29, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History