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Backwoods to Border (open access)

Backwoods to Border

Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Backwoods to Border (open access)

Backwoods to Border

Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined Cotton, Corn, And Sorghum Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton, Corn, And Sorghum Planter

Patent for improvements to a previously made patent serial no. 287,764: the improvements would include adjustable feed disks, simple and adjustable means of regulating the feed of the seed, bracing rods for the drill, and improvements in construction of the frame and hopper.
Date: May 28, 1889
Creator: Schofield, Jake Drommond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer, September 25, 1946] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer, September 25, 1946]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dan Oppenheimer discussing about the firm's group health insurance policy that can only be accomplished based on certain conditions and not to drop their current individual policies.
Date: September 25, 1946
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, and inexpensive, which may be readily converted from a corn into a cotton planter, and vice versa, which may be easily and effectively adjusted so as to plant the corn in hills at any desired distance apart, and which shall be in every respect convenient and efficient" (lines 10-17).
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 325.
Date: 1926
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History