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Valve-Gear.

Description: Patent for a valve-gear that uses a single eccentric, "together with devices by which such eccentric may be shifted upon the shaft and locked in its various positions to effect either a reversal of the engine or a stoppage thereof with a full head of steam on, and to run the engine in one or the other direction, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Hill, Millard F. & Easley, Clifton W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clay Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Clay County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1924
Creator: Morriss, G. C. & Giles, J. Bascom
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Historical Map of Clay County, Texas.

Description: Pictorial map of Clay County, Texas, showing populated areas, creeks, rivers, railroads lines, old cattle trails, property ownership, and various outlying buildings (schools, houses, mills, general stores). The map is surrounded in a border of old cattle brands. Scale [ca. 1:63,360] (1 miles to the inch).
Date: unknown
Creator: Slagle Abstract Company
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Clay County Courthouse

Description: Photograph of the newly constructed Clay County Courthouse. A note on the photograph mount credits W.H. Wilson as its architect and Strain, Risley, & Swinburn as the builders.
Date: 1900
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Map Showing Geologic Structure Near Henrietta, Clay County, Texas

Description: Map of a portion of Clay County noting land parcels and owners, major roads and railroad tracks, and bodies of water. Symbols are added designating where drilling has happened and what has been found, with contour marks added in red. Scale 1:48,000.
Date: 1915
Creator: Robinson, H. M. & Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley), 1881-1935
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map Showing Structure of Parts of Parts of the Area Between Wichita Valley Railway and Wichita River, in Clay County, Texas

Description: Map of a portion of Clay County noting land parcels and owners, major roads and railroad tracks, and bodies of water. Symbols are added designating existing and dry wells, with contour marks added in red. Scale 1:48,000.
Date: 1915
Creator: Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley), 1881-1935 & Robinson, H. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Henrietta Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date: 1957
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.88 -98.12
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1898
Creator: Hillermann, August & Heinen, Christopher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined or Covertible Tool.

Description: Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a screw-driver, its blade having a hole and a lug, and its handle having in its end a socket with a slotted reversible tool, pointed at one end and formed for a screw-driver at the other end adjustably held against one side of the screw-driver by means of a screw and nut and the lug, and adapted to fit in the socket when out of use" (lines 63-71).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Barber, Edwin L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Pot.

Description: Patent for a coffee pot "wherein the water is forced to percolated through a body of coffee or tea held in a holder or receptacle near the top of the vessel." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1897
Creator: Royer, Lemon S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Burning Garbage.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for burning garbage that is made up of a roasting chamber, a grate to hold the garbage, two furnaces, a passage for the ashes, a third furnace connected to the passage, flues, a smokestack, non-combustible absorbent material around the flues and beneath the grate, and flues beneath the grate.
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Risley, Ward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

New Liberty School

Description: Students at the New Liberty School in 1930. Written on the back of the photo, "LR Front: Lola Bolden, Snyder, Lorene Lemons, Cleta Mae Broom, 2nd Row: Evelyn Bolden, Cliffford Godfrey, Thurston Denson, Boyd Lee Gray, Lewis Johnson, Alma Bulls, Principal McDaniel, Back: I.J. Sewell, J.F. Bulls, Theron Watson, Pressley Cozart, Alvin Phagan."
Date: 1930~
Partner: Clay County Historical Society

Automatic Engine-Starter.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Automatic Engine-Starter, of which the following is a specification. The present invention appertains to engine starters, and aims to provide a novel and improved automatic spring-actuated starter for internal combustion engines" (lines 5-11).
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Beck, John Wesley & Gaines, Nolan T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Carbureter

Description: Patent for a "carbureter adapted for use in connection with internal combustion engines, and being of novel construction whereby the air is drawn through the gasolene or liquid fuel to vaporize the fuel and thereby provide a thorough and proper mixture of the air and fuel" (lines 10-16), including illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Nichols, Theodore J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cork-Puller

Description: Patent for a cork-puller which eases the removal of a cork from a bottle, without damaging either cork or bottle, with illustrations.
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Moser, Jacob W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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