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Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Standard Park [and Amusement Park]

Description: A Trolley went by Standard Park and Standard Pavilion before 1913. A popular place,the Standard had a swimming pool, amphitheater, dancing and playgrounds. The North Oak Community is now at this location. Information was taken from A.F Weaver's "Time Was" second edition.
Date: 1913?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Photograph of Track Team]

Description: Group photograph of the 1913 Academy Track Team at Simmons College in Abilene, Texas. The frame is stamped with "Our Baby's Picture," "Name," and "Born." Handwritten note on the front of the photo reads, “JE Burnam Graduated from Simmons College in 1913.”
Date: 1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Automobile Body.

Description: Patent for an automobile body that is designed for people who enjoy doing outdoor activities. Compares this design to the current design of what is called "touring cars."
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Saxon, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Card Game

Description: Patent for an invention of a new card game to assist with arithmetical computations and outlines of different objects, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Hobbs, James Joseph
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Race at Galveston Beach]

Description: Photograph of a car race at Galveston Beach. Two cars are visible behind the spectators. The inscription on the back reads "L. Disbrow in his 290 HB 'JIC' attempts to lower record for beach comer."
Date: July 29, 1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Bullfight in Juarez, Mexico]

Description: Photograph of a bull charging a horseback matador in an arena. A small crowd watches from the bleachers and a shaded balcony. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Bull Charging Picador, Juarez 4-13-13. The horses being blind-folded, stands his ground - The bull is thrust off with the long lance - not always does the horse escape being [illegible] - in this instance, the picador had his breeches ripped at the seam."
Date: April 13, 1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Bullfight in Juarez, Mexico]

Description: Photograph of a bull by a downed horse in a bull fighting arena. Two matadors have their backs turned to the camera, watching the bull. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "Bull tossing a horse he has just gored to death."
Date: April 13, 1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 1, April 15, 1913

Description: Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: April 13, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 4, June 1, 1913

Description: Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: June 1, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum

[Blinn Tennis Club]

Description: Photograph of four young men identified as Blinn Tennis Club. Three of the men are sitting, and one man is standing. They are all holding tennis rackets.
Date: 1913
Creator: Winkelmann's Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscenses

Description: This book serves as a "treatise on insect and animal life" (p. 4) in and around San Antonio, Texas. It discusses the life patterns and behavior of Texas insects, fish, reptiles and other animals, as well as the hunting practices of the time, all in great detail and with accompanying photographs.
Date: 1913
Creator: Menger, R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries

[Wellington Basketball team]

Description: Photograph of a Wellington Basketball team. There are six young women pictured standing in a line, and one man standing in the middle of them. Handwriting on the back of the photograph identifies their names.
Date: 1913/1914
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Postcard of Cotton Palace Park Bridge]

Description: Postcard of a wooden bridge at Cotton Palace Park in Waco, Texas. A handwritten note on the back of the postcard is addressed to Mrs. L.D. Ormsly in Keyport, New Jersey and says "Dear Mama, Traveling over the worst roads I ever saw. In fact they are no roads half the time, have only 1-- miles of good roads to go now to D. Love Donn."
Date: June 24, 1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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