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Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001

Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, teacher and pianist from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Wilson talks about coming to Kerrville to teach at the "Kerrville Colored School," life for African-Americans in the area, the African-American community, and her personal life.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Bacon, Dan; Bethel, Ann & Wilson, Itasco Sampson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Fashion designers] captions transcript

[News Clip: Fashion designers]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Bobbie Wygant about the Mike Benet Formals company in Pittsburg, Texas. The story begins with footage of Wygant talking to an unidentified designer about her sketches and designs and includes women in a factory cutting patterns and sewing fabrics, finished dresses displayed and inspected, and fashion models walking around a swimming pool in evening gowns.
Date: January 13, 1976
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Formal dresses] captions transcript

[News Clip: Formal dresses]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Bobbie Wygant about the Mike Benet Formals dressmaking company in Pittsburg, Texas which designs and manufactures formal dresses for clients such as the Miss America and Miss Texas Pageants and The Lawrence Welk Show. The story includes footage of Wygant talking to an unidentified designer and looking at sketches, factory workers cutting patterns and adding embellishment to fabrics, a finished evening gown, an interview with a company representative named Earl concerning a large order from the Texas Grand Chapter of the Evening Star, and a fashion model walking around a swimming pool in a finished evening gown.
Date: January 13, 1976
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Truckers] (open access)

[News Script: Truckers]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Ohio Highway Patrol who says that windshields of three trucks were shot out on Interstate highway 80 near Youngstown. A Nobel prize winning biologist says that it may unrealistic to believe a massive campaign against cancer can cure the diseases.
Date: January 30, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pittsburg] (open access)

[News Script: Pittsburg]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire in Pittsburg, Texas, and a prior event where a Camp County Sheriff, Jesse Graves, was shot at in his patrol car, suffering a minor head wound.
Date: January 1, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seed Planter. (open access)

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame, the rotary funnel-shaped hopper, the gear thereon, the axle and the gear of the inner fixed funnel-shaped pan, around which the hopper revolves, the apertured bottom plate in the hopper-shaped pan, the shaft connected to the hopper and revolving therewith, and a seed-operating device carried by the lower end of the said shaft over the seed-plate" (lines 98-107).
Date: January 12, 1886
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pistol and Carbine Holder. (open access)

Pistol and Carbine Holder.

Patent for a new and improved holster for pistols and carbines. This design includes a button to be attached to the desired firearm, and the button is designed to fit into a groove attached to a strap. The strap is secured around a person or horse, and a tug at the handle of the firearm causes springs in the groove to release the button, thus freeing the firearm quickly and easily.
Date: January 17, 1882
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, illustration included.
Date: January 26, 1875
Creator: Garner, John G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History