19 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow. (open access)

Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.

Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Peeples, Rufus P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaporator Cooler. (open access)

Evaporator Cooler.

Patent for an evaporator cooler.
Date: August 8, 1911
Creator: Tyson, William David & Tyson, Thomas Oscar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Falls County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Falls County, Texas. Falls are marked on the Brazos River, as shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: August 15, 1868
Creator: Martin, Joseph
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Hulling Machine. (open access)

Grain-Hulling Machine.

Patent for improvements in grain-hulling machines for further effectiveness and convenience at a lesser cost.
Date: August 26, 1916
Creator: Couch, Albert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Tom Connally to Daniel W. Kempner, August 6, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from Tom Connally to Daniel W. Kempner, August 6, 1952]

Letter from Tom Connally to Daniel W. Kempner offering to write letters of introduction to various American ambassadors for Mr. Kempner's upcoming trip to Europe.
Date: August 6, 1952
Creator: Connally, Tom, 1877-1963
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Tom Connally, August 2, 1952] (open access)

[Letter to Tom Connally, August 2, 1952]

Letter to Senator Tom Connally asking for letters of introduction to various American Ambassadors in Europe.
Date: August 2, 1952
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for a milk cooler, which has a water tank above the jugs of milk that slowly drips cold water onto porous cloths covering the milk jugs.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Dickson, Tomas Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Steroid Bust] captions transcript

[News Clip: Steroid Bust]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: August 29, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Coffee Fight] (open access)

[News Script: Coffee Fight]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 28, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Deputies] (open access)

[News Script: Deputies]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of 2 sheriff deputies who were shot and killed when they tried to arrest a man just outside the city limits of Marlin.
Date: August 21, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Deputies] (open access)

[News Script: Deputies]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Falls County sheriff Brady Pamplin who called for an investigation of the Austin State Hospital, where an man is accused of fatally shooting two of his deputies.
Date: August 22, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hospital Denies Charges] (open access)

[News Script: Hospital Denies Charges]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a superintendent of the Austin State Hospital who has denied charged of negligence made by Falls County Sheriff Brady Pamplin.
Date: August 24, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Murder] (open access)

[News Script: Murder]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of two deputies of the Falls County sheriff's department in central Texas were killed by gunfire.
Date: August 21, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shootings] (open access)

[News Script: Shootings]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a man who is accused of murdering two Fall County deputy sheriffs and was indicted by a grand jury.
Date: August 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Newspaper Clipping: A Woman Leads Texas Physicians] (open access)

[Newspaper Clipping: A Woman Leads Texas Physicians]

Newspaper clipping of an article about Dr. May Owen and her career.
Date: August 27, 1960
Creator: The Ocean Press
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Auger. (open access)

Post Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post auger. This design "has relation to that class of post-augers which consist of a number of concavo-convex cutting blades secured upon the lower end of a shaft having a cross-handle at its upper end, and provided with means for expanding the said blades for the purpose of boring holes of different sizes; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of parts of the same" (lines 19-27).
Date: August 14, 1883
Creator: Miles, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard with a View Looking Down a Road Between Trees]

Postcard with a photograph of a view looking down "Lover's Lane" positioned underneath a grove of trees; the caption reads: "You had better bring Harry down here. What you think?" The note on the reverse side of the card reads: "Am having some joy - so sorry you would not ride with me Sunday. Lots of girls here. I leave tomorrow. At home about Sun./six."
Date: August 22, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Torbett Sanatorium and Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse]

Postcard of the Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse, Torbett Sanatorium, and Hot Well Pavilion in Marlin Texas. The illustration depicts two or three red brick buildings on the left side and center back of the image and a smaller tan building in the right foreground. The text, "Torbett Sanatorium, Majestic Hotel and Bathhouse, Hot Well Pavilion, Marlin, Texas" is printed in red across the top of the postcard. The correspondence on the back is addressed to "Mrs. E.P. Winters."
Date: August 29, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine. (open access)

Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the supporting stand and the suds-box, of the cleats at the upper end of said box and formed with openings, the blocks pivotally secured to said stand and provided at one end with the thumb-screw, and the springs secured at their lower ends in said blocks and their upper ends working loosely in the openings in the cleats" (lines 24-31).
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: Neal, Stephen N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History