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Truncilla macrodon, Specimen #1439
One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date:
August 9, 1891
Creator:
Walker, J. B.
Object Type:
Specimen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lampsilis hydiana, Specimen #1447
One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an oval shape; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Walker, J. B.
Object Type:
Specimen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Marriage license]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a county attorney investigating the validity of a marriage license of two men.
Date:
October 6, 1972
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Marriage?]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a county attorney investigating the validity of a marriage license of two men.
Date:
October 7, 1972
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.
Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Spivey, Lillian Hale
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Extermination
Patent for a device to exterminate boll-weevils on cotton. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Hebert, Paul E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blower and Suction Device.
Patent for a blower for a threshing machine that regulates the amount of air put out of the machine, and is both affordable and durable.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
Brown, Harry M. & Dahl, Harry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Spring Tightener
Patent for improvements in bed-spring tighteners, for adjusting the tension of a bed spring supporting wire as may be required. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Tlustos, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyor-Bucket.
Patent for a conveyor bucket, which reduces waste of material.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Barnett, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Point
Patent for an improved casing point with improvements in the strainer or screen frame for wells.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Lindstrom, Conrad
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing Point or Strainer.
Patent for casing point or strainer "particularly adapted for use in oil and Artesian wells... which will permit free circulation of the liquid around the lower portion of the casing and free and easy entrance of the same into the casing, and yet will prevent entrance of sand and gravel into the casing" (Lines 12-22).
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Carlson, Andrew Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condensing-Pump.
Patent for a condensing pump with a new type of valve mechanism.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Leggett, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis
Patent for a clevis. This invention is designed to connect with gang plows allowing vertical and lateral movement. Illustration included.
Date:
September 10, 1907
Creator:
Barnett, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for an oil-burner, “and it has for its object to provide a construction in which stream will be admitted to the oil or commingled therewith in sufficient quantity to aid combustion…” (lines 11-15) including illustrations.
Date:
November 11, 1902
Creator:
Chandler, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Carriage
Patent for book carriage. This invention is designed to cradle open books and registrars. Illustration included.
Date:
July 18, 1905
Creator:
Marsh, Sidney Augustus & Gifford, George Chester
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer
This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date:
June 2012
Creator:
Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cast of School Play
Copy negative of the cast of a school play in Peach Creek, Texas. The group includes Andrew Hefner, Lillian Brockman, Nellie Maupin, Henry Davis, Beatrice Gilmore, May Brockman, Frankie Baskett, Manie Hodge, Bertie Baskett, Oma Johnston, Maggie Rucker, Aggie Rucker, Hettie Kirkland, Verna Smith, Gertie Gilmore, Suzie Milam, Jess Davis, Tom Hefner, Lewis Smith, Lela Hefner, Walter Milam and Eugene Milam. The group is arranged with three young men in military uniforms on either side of several young women in white dresses and sashes. In the center are two women and one man in costumes from the 1700s. Above the group is a banner that reads, "GLADLY WE GREET YOU". In the foreground are several empty benches.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Singing Class
Copy negative of a singing class in Peach Creek, Texas. The back row has twelve men standing in dark suits and bow ties, including two men wearing hats. The front row has ten women and two young girls in dresses and ties, including seven women wearing hats. They are in front of a brick building. Written across the bottom of the photograph is, "Peach Creek Singing Class".
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
School Picture
Copy negative of a Peach Creek School group picture in 1898. The group includes twenty-three boys in suits and neckties, twenty-two girls in dresses, pinafores and bows and C.P. Webb seated in the center in a suit and bow tie. In front of the group are eighteen hats. Printed across the bottom of the photograph is, "Peach Creek School, Prof. C.P. Webb, Teacher. Photo by E.H. Webb, Feb. 9, 1898."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wharton Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Wharton 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:
1906
Creator:
Morris, J. W. & Giles, J. Bascom
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Three Unidentified Boys]
Photograph of three unidentified boys posed on a raised platform with a wood railing. The boy in the middle - who appears to be the eldest - sits in a chair and holds a book in his right hand. The other two boys stand on either side of the sitting boy. All three boys wear dark-colored jackets with shorts, bow ties, tights, and lace-up boots.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Ramsey & Lind
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Joseph Andrew Hamilton House Photograph #2]
Postcard of the Joseph Andrew Hamilton House in Wharton, Texas.
Date:
April 1984
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[El Campo Library Building Photograph #3]
Postcard of the El Campo Library Building in El Campo, Texas.
Date:
August 1989
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Joseph Andrew Hamilton House Photograph #1]
Postcard of the Joseph Andrew Hamilton House in Wharton, Texas.
Date:
April 1984
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History