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[Crown of thorns]

Photograph of a spool of barbed wire resting on the top of a fence post.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Range fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about range fire burning over two acres of land on ranches in West Texas.

Date: August 2, 1972, 12:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.

Date: August 18, 1908

Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie.

Patent for "a bale-tie which may with readiness and case be locked in position upon a bale and which will be positive in operation and thoroughly efiective for the purpose designed"(lines 8-12)

Date: October 28, 1902

Creator: Griggs, James Wesley

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Double strand, Forked Tongue Brotherton Barbed wire

Date: unknown

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Side View from Across a Tilled Field of Perini House

Copy negative of a Perini family house. The house is in the background and partially obscured from view by several trees. There is a field in the foreground that is lined by a barbed wire fence. There power lines cutting across the field.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Double strand barbed wire, Glidden winner, Patented November 24, 1874

Date: November 24, 1874

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Double strand, horse barbed wire

Date: unknown

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Cistern at the Sproul Ranch

Photograph of a cistern at the Sproul Ranch. It is behind a barbed wire fence, and there are many plants in the surrounding area.

Date: August 6, 2005

Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.691606641161492 -104.03130006208562

Partner: UNT Libraries

Single strand barbed wire, spring expantion joint found in sheep fencing

Single strand barbed wire, spring expansion joint found in sheep fencing

Date: unknown

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Double strand barbed wire, A.J. Upham Staple barb on two lines.]

Double strand barbed wire, A.J. Upham Staple barb on two lines, Patented August 29, 1876

Date: August 29, 1876

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Fort Bend Museum

The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas

Book containing the history of Spur Ranch and its London-based owners, the Espuela Land and Cattle Company. It covers topics including the founding of the ranch, its environs, expenses, personnel, conflicts with native peoples and neighbors, and life on the range.

Date: 1970

Creator: Holden, William Curry, 1896-

Item Type: Book

Partner: Texas State Historical Association

[Wane Brown sitting on chair with book]

Photograph of Wane Brown sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, and facing to the left of the camera. In the image he is holding a book titled "The Wire That Fenced The West," and in front of the chair is a display of different wires.

Small piece of Waukegan wire half round barb barbed wire.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Debris and Damaged Buildings After Tornado

Photograph of a pile of debris that includes pieces of metal, wooden boards and tree limbs after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. In the foreground is a patch of grass and a puddle. In the background are several damaged trees and small buildings.

Date: April 1947

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum