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[UT Students' Army Training Corps Memo Number 33]
Memorandum outlining the Depot Zone plan to facilitate the distribution of quartermaster supplies in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Boyle, John B.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gage.
Patent for a water-gage measuring the height or volume of water in a steam boiler, particularly those "held closed by the weight of the operating handle" (lines 11-12). The device is designed for simple manufacture and easy assembly & disassembly without tools, and features a valve seat that stays in place, illustrations included.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Leidecker, Helmoth M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for Draft Equalizer. Patent states this invention "relates to the new and useful improvements in draft-equalizers" (lines 10-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1918
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J. & Bryant, Marvin H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas
Article about Natural Gas Reserves production and Consumption in Dallas, Fort Worth in Texas
Date:
February 1916
Creator:
Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley) & Matson, George Charlton
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fuse Plug
Patent for "improvements in automatic fuse plugs" (lines 12-12). These are "adapted to be successively engaged by a swinging contact arm" (lines 16-17).
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Bowman, Levi M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger
Patent for an improved post-hole digger/auger with multiple blades that cut in a spiral pattern and has the blades adjust and lock on the base. The blade shanks form a cage and keeps dirt from clogging the blades.
Date:
May 22, 1915
Creator:
Hoover, Orville M. & Ardery, Sarah, J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Means for Vehicle Axle Suspension.
Patent for a more resilient vehicle axle suspension and created specifically for motor vehicles.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
Guthrie, Nehemiah & Johnson, Callender L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie
Patent for a new design of railroad-ties meant "for clamping together the two members of the tie and for adjusting them relatively to each other so as to adapt them to clamp rails of different widths" (lines 13-16), with illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Grant, James K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage Burning Furnace
Patent for a new and useful garbage burning furnace that burns garbage efficiently in a combustion chamber. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Stokes, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Drier.
Patent for a fruit drier that includes "a series of hinged trays adapted to be folded into small compact form." (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 24, 1914
Creator:
Reid, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn that can produce butter in very short period of time with minimal effort.
Date:
May 19, 1913
Creator:
Hoefer, Charles Jr.; Belt, Marcus L. Jr. & Belt, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
View in San Benito, TX
Black-and-white image postcard of a sidewalk lined with small palm trees and the text "View in San Benito, Texas." The back of the postcard is addressed to Mrs. Mara Ferguson, Watonga, OK.
Date:
August 9, 1916
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1918
A collection of writings on the shorter contributions to general geology.
Date:
1919
Creator:
White, David
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Postcard from Lena Southern to Lois Matlock, February 21, 1910]
Postcard from Lena Southern to Lois Matlock with an illustration of three pink flowers and a caption that reads: "The world is filled with flowers, The flowers are filled with dew, The dew is filled with love For you, and you, and you." Lena mentions in the note on the card that her school lets out in two months time.
Date:
February 21, 1910
Creator:
Southern, Lena
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Lena Southern to Lois Matlock, February 10, 1910]
Postcard from Lena Southern to Lois Matlock with a tinted photograph of the Cathedral Spires at the Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs, Colorado with a small carriage situated at the bottom. There is also a short note on the back of the card that asks how Lois and the family have been.
Date:
February 10, 1910
Creator:
Southern, Lena
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Dr. Joseph Pound from Mittie Pound Sorrell, August 31, 1911]
Letter to Dr. Joseph Pound from Mittie Pound Sorrell in Russell, Oklahoma concerning life on their land and saying their crop yield should be good after the rain they had: "Our cotton looks good if nothing happens..." She says that "Jake and I joined the M. E. church all the children went in with the Baptist."
Date:
August 31, 1911
Creator:
Sorrell, Mittie Pound
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Bernard Shannahan to George Pendexter, 1912-06-10]
Postcard from Bernard Shannahan to George Pendexter saying he would be glad "to exchange with [Pendexter] at any time. He also tells Pendexter the address for J. P. Eagan and says he has good pictures too; the photograph on the reverse side shows an few oil tanks caught on fire with a caption reading: "Tanks of Oil Destroyed by Fire June 13-1911 Sapulpa, Oklahoma."
Date:
June 10, 1912
Creator:
Shannahan, Bernard
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Bernard Shannahan to George Pendexter, July 7, 1912]
Postcard from B. Shannahan to George Pendexter with a photograph showing a firemen convention in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The photograph shows a horse-drawn fire wagon racing down a street with a large crowd of people lined up on the sidewalk watching the action; some of the firemen on the wagon are working with the large hose loaded in the back.
Date:
July 5, 1912
Creator:
Shannohan, Bernard
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Turner, James S. & Campbell, John Luther
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Mayhew, John Daugherty
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen
Patent for a well screen which allows water to flow through easily while stopping any other items from going through into the well.
Date:
November 8, 1910
Creator:
Decker, Harry R. & Houk, Russell W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Map of Routes of Coronado and Army]
Map of the Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542, through parts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The map includes state boundary lines, bodies of water, major towns, forts, and areas of elevation. A legend, included in the lower-right corner, indicates directions of the routes of Coronado and his army. No scale indicated.
Date:
1912
Creator:
Root, George A.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clara Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:31680
Date:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burkburnett Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:31680
Date:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History