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Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: Airmen protest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 60 airmen, mostly Black, protesting for a shorter tour of duty at the Laredo Air Force Base.
Date: September 19, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon visit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Richard Nixon visiting a facility for holding drug smugglers in Laredo.
Date: September 21, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon visit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Richard Nixon coming to Texas.
Date: September 18, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a car crashing into a creek following rain.
Date: September 27, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in downtown Laredo.
Date: January 4, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Political trip]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about elected officials taking a trip to Texas on the Presidential jet.
Date: October 4, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Handle-Fastener

Description: Patent for handle fastener for tools such as screwdrivers, chisels, and augers. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: McMillan, Eugene C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blind-Slat Fastener.

Description: Patent for improvements in shutter attachments, in which it locks the slats in place at a desired angle. Illustration is included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Winslow, Walter W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chain Jack.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Phillips, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition for Removing Boiler-Scale

Description: Patent for "an extract of the plant know to botanists by the name 'Larrea Mexican,' to be used in removing boiler-scale and in preventing the reformation of the same" (lines 9-13).
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Pena, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Filter.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in filters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: McLane, Albert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Historic Marker Application: Juan Francisco Farias Residence]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Juan Francisco Farias Residence, in Laredo, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: September 16, 2009
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

Texas: Webb Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Webb, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, water tanks and wells, borders, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Brown, Earl L.; Nicholas, R. U.; Mills, W. H.; Minter, W. H.; Abbott, W. T.; Smith, A. Y. et al.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Las Mujeres Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Las Mujeres Ranch in Webb County, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, ranches, water bodies, boundaries, oil pipelines, and landmarks. Includes a road classification diagram in the lower-right corner. Relief shown by contours (interval 20) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Webb County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Webb County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:380,952] (10,000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1908
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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