Coyote Wisdom (open access)

Coyote Wisdom

This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 1938
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Irving crash] (open access)

[News Script: Irving crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Diane Hancock dying.
Date: July 1, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Boiler-Feeder. (open access)

Automatic Boiler-Feeder.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic boiler feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Sharp, Joshua H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a single piece wire clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: Rumfield, Henry I. & Donaho, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Propeller (open access)

Air-Propeller

Patent for a propeller for aircrafts. Illustrations included.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Buchanan, Jesey H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Environmental Impact Statement: Madison County

Map of Madison and the adjacent counties depicting a part of the route of a proposed high-speed railroad connecting Dallas and Houston in Texas.
Date: 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Highway Map Madison County, Texas

Highway map of Madison County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, and state prison farms. Map includes two inset maps - North Zulch and Midway - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Handwritten notes and calculations have been made on the map to indicate the location of Robbins's Ferry. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1961
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Youngland District

Blueline print of survey map of Youngland District, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, and land grants. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map. No scale information given.
Date: 1857
Creator: Matthews, R. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Madison County]

Map of Madison County, Texas, showing towns, creeks, and blocks of land. Map includes a legend corresponding to the owners of the blocks of land in the lower-right corner.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

La Bahia Road

Map of the historic La Bahía Road, showing counties, towns, creeks, rivers, and blocks of land. Map includes compass rose and scale bar in the lower-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640] (24 miles to the inch or 3 miles to 1/8 of an inch).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Madison Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Madison County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Hand drawn lines have been added to the published map in red pencil to denote the addition of La Bahia Road and San Antonio Road. At the intersection of La Bahia Road and San Antonio Road, the annotation "Robbins Ferry" has been added. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1922
Creator: Matzow, Fr.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Hayes release] captions transcript

[News Clip: Hayes release]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 27, 1980, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the frame, drum, the power-ropes to be wound thereon, and the platen combined with the levers having rounded upper and lower ends to operate in rounded sockets in the said platen and the upper part of the frame and the toggle-joints near the centers of the said levers, comprising the rounded projection on one of the members adapted to fit a corresponding cavity or recess in the adjacent end of the other member, the lateral ears and the pin to pass through said ears and the rounded projection" (lines 12-23).
Date: May 15, 1888
Creator: Bartle, John Nelson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Signal. (open access)

Automatic Railway Signal.

Patent for a new and improved railroad signal. This design, "[w]hen the wheels of a passing train come in contact with the spring and bent end of the lever . . . said end is lowered or depressed, causing the movement in the same direction of the outer end of said lever, which, through the agency of the wire, will cause the ringing or sounding of the gong or bell as the wheels . . . come in contact with the end of the lever. . . .[A]fter the wheels of the last car of a train have passed the point where the lever is located, said lever will be returned to its normal position by means of the coil-spring" (lines 57-71).
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Ross, Albert James & Darter, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH. (open access)

COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH.

Patent for formula used in whitewashing homes, walls, fences. etc. with ingredients and instructions included.
Date: April 20, 1880
Creator: Kerr, Archibald Henderson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable corn or cotton planter. It has a frame, ground-wheel, furrow opening and closing apparatuses, a hopper, seeding devices, a crank-arm, an agitator shift, a set-screw, a crank-pin, and bearings on the sides of the hopper.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Brown, Mathias
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 10, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 17, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 24, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 31, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 7, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 14, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 21, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1928 (open access)

The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1928

Weekly newspaper from Madisonville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 28, 1928
Creator: Knight, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History