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A Study of the Effect of Teacher - Pupil Ratio upon the Child's Achievement
This study examines the impact that classroom size makes on the development of secondary students. To gather data, the author focused on Leverett's Chapel School near Kilgore, Texas.
Date:
August 1938
Creator:
Tate, Curtis Baxter
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How Can the Educational Opportunities be Improved for the Colored Children of Rusk County, Texas?
A comparison of white and colored schools in Rusk county found that educational opportunities for colored students was unequal. A plan for improving the colored schools of the county is set forth.
Date:
August 1939
Creator:
Smith, James R.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0120]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Left to right: John Ogdon, Ardmore Golfer and Obie Bristow, Big Springs Texas Golfer and former OU student."
Date:
June 11, 1940
Creator:
Owen, A. Y.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.
Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baling and Compress Machine.
Patent for a combined baling and compress machine for cotton gins, which makes bales that fulfill the rules of transportation companies on cotton bale density and is cost efficient enough for small gins to purchase.
Date:
June 8, 1909
Creator:
Crow, Robert D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus
Patent for canning apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
March 30, 1909
Creator:
Brown, William N.; Brown, Clyde V. & Brown, Lester L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus.
Patent for an improved boiling apparatus for canning.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Still, Cuthbert A. Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airship that is equipped with gas bags to control the ascent and descent of the airship and make it float in case of landing in the water.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Bradshaw, John F. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rusk Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Rusk County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1895
Creator:
Pressler, C. W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Big Springs
Topographic quadrangle map of Big Spring, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date:
1954
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a High School Basketball Team]
Photograph of a basketball team from Henderson High School in 1917. A list of names is provided on the back.
Date:
1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 259, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 17, 1937
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 1937
Creator:
Dean, J. Lawrence
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1938
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1938
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 315, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1939
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 22, 1939
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 119, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1938
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 4, 1938
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.),, Vol. 1, No. 269, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 1932
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 26, 1932
Creator:
Bowman, George
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.),, Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1931
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 16, 1931
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 220, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 30, 1938
Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1938
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Oil field boom]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
May 15, 1981, 12:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "is to promote convenience in operating baling-presses and increase the efficiency of said presses. The invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 14, 1882
Creator:
Smith, William Fredric
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to produce a cheap and simple machine of this class which is adapted for use in connection with a cotton-gin and which will rapidly separate the dirt from the cotton and will also condense the cotton, so that it may be easily handled and baled" (lines 10-16). It consists in "[t]he combination of the case or frame having an inlet and its lower end and a hinged downward-curved hood at its upper end with the endless carrier mounted in the said case or frame with its higher end within the curved hood" (lines 47-52).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wherry, William B. & Smith, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Tightener
Patent for an improvement in belt fasteners, "especially adapted for use in connection with the running belts of planning, sizing, matching, molding and like machines" (lines 10-12) so that belts may be adjusted to tighten or loosen easily.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Noble, John B. & Hensley, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and effective cotton chopper that leaves the plants in bunches that is easily operated and uses a reciprocating motion to rotate the blades and chop the stalks.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Hyde, Frank Sule
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a coupling for air-brakes, of the movable arm having the recess or socket, and the pivoted arm having the shoulder or offset adapted to fit the recess and provided with the [other] arm to direct the said shoulder or offset to the said recess when the coupling-arms come together, the said shoulder and recess forming the terminals of the air-pipes at the ends of the cars" (lines 92-100).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History