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Union Hill Baptist Church Record Book (1890-1921) (open access)

Union Hill Baptist Church Record Book (1890-1921)

Minutes of church meetings, lists of members, records of baptisms, deaths, church finances, projects.
Date: August 10, 1890
Creator: Union Hill Baptist Church
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Evaluation of the Chico, Texas, Secondary School (open access)

An Evaluation of the Chico, Texas, Secondary School

A complete evaluation of the secondary school in Chico, Texas
Date: August 1939
Creator: Rann, George Cleo
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Chico Elementary School and Some Recommendations for Improvement. (open access)

An Evaluation of the Chico Elementary School and Some Recommendations for Improvement.

A study to determine the status of the Chico Elementary School and compare it to established norms and standards.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Teague, B. E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Teachers' Ratings of Pupils as Bright or Dull (open access)

An Analysis of Teachers' Ratings of Pupils as Bright or Dull

This thesis resulted from an examination conducted to determine teacher ability to identify individual student capability based on rapport between the two parties.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Lovelace, William True
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quadrula mortoni, Specimen #971

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a round shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; external sculpturing in the form of pustules. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quadrula mortoni, Specimen #972

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a round shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; external sculpturing in the form of pustules. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quadrula mortoni, Specimen #893

One preserved mussel specimen including the left valve only. The specimen exhibits a round shape; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Potamilus amphichaenus, Specimen #661

One preserved mussel specimen including the right valve only. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; bluish-white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Leptodea fragilis, Specimen #662

One preserved mussel specimen. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; bluish-white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen was assessed to be live when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #819

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; bluish-white internal coloring; reddish-brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be recently dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #820

One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; reddish-brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures over 120 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #821

One preserved mussel specimen including the right valve only. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures over 120 mm in length and was assessed to be long dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pyganodon grandis, Specimen #822

One preserved mussel specimen including the left valve only. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the Trinity basin. The specimen measures over 120 mm in length and was assessed to be long dead when collected.
Date: August 12, 1972
Creator: Britton, Joseph
Object Type: Specimen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Baugh, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener. (open access)

Sash Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved sash-fastener. This design consists "[t]he combination, [of] an angle-bracket having an opening produced in its horizontal member wider at its top than at its bottom, and an essentially yoke-shaped bar passed through the said opening, [and] a thumb-lever hinged in the vertical member of the bracket, extending over and parallel with the horizontal member of said bracket, and a lip integral with the under edge of the lever, concavo-convex in cross-section, and capable of entering the opening in the bracket and contacting with . . . the yoke-like bar" (lines 7-19).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Miller, Charles H. & McDonald, Samuel A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter. (open access)

Seed-Planter.

Patent for improvements in seed-planter by using different sizes of disks to construct a hopper that can be revolved, in which it can be adapted to plant cotton, corn or other seeds. Illustration is included.
Date: August 25, 1891
Creator: Thompson, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Attachment for Plows.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for plows. This design "has relation to devices for guiding or directing shovel-plows, sweeps, or cultivator-plows, and thus release in a great measure the strain upon the arms of the plow[person] consequent upon directing the plow in its proper course; and it consists in the detailed construction of a device or attachment of that class" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 29, 1882
Creator: Welborn, Wisp J. N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter. (open access)

Feed-Cutter.

Patent for a feed cutter that has a casing that makes up tilted side walls with transverse openings, a reciprocating knife that sits between the casing walls, a link that connects the knife to the casing, a feed trough, and a staple that engages the trough.
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Butler, Jacob
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the suspended rolling gate [and] the toggle-jointed levers . . . connecting the gate with a fixed point" (lines 102-104). It further consists in a lever "pivoted at one end to a fixed point, the lever pivoted to [another] lever near the outer end of the latter, the lower end of the lever being attached to the free end of the lever, the pivoted hand-levers fulcrumed on opposite sides of the gate, and the rod connecting the inner ends of the said hand levers with the connected ends of the [other] levers" (lines 1-8).
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Lewis, John Coleman & Rainey, Willain Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
What Changes in the Decatur Elementary School Curriculum should be Made to Meet the Needs of the Maladjusted Child (open access)

What Changes in the Decatur Elementary School Curriculum should be Made to Meet the Needs of the Maladjusted Child

The problem of this thesis is to study the types, causes, and effects of maladjustments found in analyzing certain pupils of the sixth grade. Also the problem seeks to determine why the present curriculum is not meeting the needs of these maladjusted children of the Decatur Elementary School.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Morris, Eval, P.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the United States Soil Conservation Service Program of Grassland Recovery on the Land Utilization Project in Wise county, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the United States Soil Conservation Service Program of Grassland Recovery on the Land Utilization Project in Wise county, Texas

This investigation was undertaken in order to evaluate the United States Soil Conservation Service program of grassland recovery on the land utilization project in Wise County, Texas.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Hyman, Ruel Richard
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Weather] (open access)

[News Script: Weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe storms and tornadoes in Fort Worth, Boyd, and Eagle Mountain Lake and the damage throughout those areas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Dallas Weather, Lodge, Weather] captions transcript

[News Clip: Dallas Weather, Lodge, Weather]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a severe storm in Dallas and the damage sustained in Richardson and South Oak Cliff, severe storms and tornadoes in Fort Worth, Boyd, and Eagle Mountain Lake and the damage throughout those areas. The video also includes a news story about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and his address before the American Bar Association in Dallas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water-Tank. (open access)

Water-Tank.

Patent for a railroad water tank, which automatically opens the discharge valve when the spout is opened.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Miller, Charles H. & Bunnell, Walter A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History