Billboard (open access)

Billboard

Patent for billboards built for wind resistance.
Date: November 28, 1922
Creator: Kelly, Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Article Holder or Stand. (open access)

Article Holder or Stand.

Patent for a device that conveniently and readily supports books, photographs, picture cards, and other similar articles. The new design is formed from a single strand of wire, and is specifically adapted for holding books in an open position and allowing the pages to be turned as needed.
Date: February 28, 1922
Creator: Boyette, Oren K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gas-Release Packer. (open access)

Automatic Gas-Release Packer.

Patent for automatic gas release packer that uses constant pressure regulated by spring-controlled valves for better control when lifting oil out of wells.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Cummings, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clip for Eyeglass Cases and The Like (open access)

Clip for Eyeglass Cases and The Like

Patent for a clip for eyeglass cases and the like. Meant to provide an inexpensive and simple clip to hold eyeglass cases in the pocket to prevent displacement.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Evans, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Headlight. (open access)

Automobile Headlight.

Patent for an improved automobile headlight equipped with a movable lens and reflector to cast light down towards the roadway.
Date: November 14, 1922
Creator: Head, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animated Sign (open access)

Animated Sign

Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap (open access)

Ant Trap

Patent for an ant trap designed as a ring-shaped trough and which allows for the drainage of rainwater through a pipe fitted with a porous plug. Both walls of the trough are capped with inward and downward curved flanges.
Date: August 1, 1922
Creator: Scrivner, Jefferson Davis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rhodes Grass (open access)

Rhodes Grass

Revised edition. "Rhodes grass was introduced from southern Africa in 1902, and has proved of value for cultivation in the warmer parts of the United States, being grown more largely in Florida and Texas than elsewhere.... It makes a heavy yield of hay of excellent quality, as the stems are slender, tender, and very leafy. The hay is cured easily and is relished by all kinds of live stock.... This bulletin mentions the soil preferences of this grass and gives the methods of seeding and after-treatment employed as well as handling the hay and pasturing and seed saving." -- p. 2
Date: 1922
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Soil map, reconnoissance survey, northwest Texas sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, counties, towns, experiment substations, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1922
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil Map, Texas, Denton County Sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, roads, bridges, railroads, towns, schools, churches, stores, and experiment substations. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1922
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnoissance soil survey of northwest Texas (open access)

Reconnoissance soil survey of northwest Texas

Soil survey of 22 counties in northwest Texas, just south of the Panhandle region. Included are Bailey, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard, Garza, Hale, Hardeman, Haskell, Hockley, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lynn, Lubbock, Motley, Stonewall, Terry, and Yoakum Counties. Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, soils, and irrigation of these counties.
Date: 1922
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Geib, H. V. (Horace Valentine); Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter); Anderson, A. C.; Bushnell, T. M. (Thomas Mark); Stroud, J. F. et al.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Denton County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Denton County, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Denton County, Texas.
Date: 1922
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas) & Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Settegast 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: 1922
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Stephenville Sheet

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 1:125000
Date: 1922
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Roby Sheet

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 1:125000
Date: 1922
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Park Place 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: 1922
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology of the Wiles Area Ranger District, Texas (open access)

Geology of the Wiles Area Ranger District, Texas

This report describes the economic geology of the Wiles area Ranger District, Texas.
Date: June 28, 1922
Creator: Dobbin, Carroll E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Producing Horizon in the Rios Well in Caldwell County (open access)

The Producing Horizon in the Rios Well in Caldwell County

Report describing the geological structures and formations in Caldwell County, Texas. These include oil production.
Date: 1922
Creator: Sellards, E. H. (Elias Howard), 1875-1961
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Geology of Johnson Country (open access)

The Geology of Johnson Country

Book discussing the geology of Johnson County, Texas, including the county's physiographic subdivisions, geologic formations, and economically valuable geological features.
Date: 1922
Creator: Winton, W. M., 1885-1960 & Scott, Gayle, 1894-1948
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Soft Red Winter Wheats (open access)

The Soft Red Winter Wheats

"At least 66 distinct varieties of soft red winter wheat, known by nearly 400 different names, are grown commercially in the United States, and additional varieties are grown experimentally. These varieties differ widely in yield, adaptation, milling and baking value, and other characteristics. The most widely grown varieties in the United States in order of importance are Fultz, Fulcaster, Mediterranean, Poole, Red May, Red Wave, and Harvest Queen. The area of each of these varieties in 1919 varied from about 4,800,000 acres to about 1,000,000 acres." -- p. 2
Date: 1922
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882 & Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hard Red Winter Wheats (open access)

The Hard Red Winter Wheats

This bulletin discusses the classes and varieties of hard red winter wheats and the areas in which they are successfully grown. Among the varieties discussed are Turkey, Kharkof, Kanred, Blackhull, Minturki, and Baeska.
Date: 1922
Creator: Clark, J. Allen (Jacob Allen), b. 1888 & Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Atlanta 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 1:62500
Date: 1922
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Lake 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 1:62500
Date: 1922
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

La Sal Vieja 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 1:62500
Date: 1922
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History