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Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for cotton gin, which includes a huller roller, seed bar, and seed grate to separate and remove seeds from the cotton. Ginning points/pins are used instead of saws. Due to the positioning of the ginning points/pins, the surface of the ginning cylinder in its entirety is available for ginning and there are fewer mechanical friction points.
Date: October 17, 1911
Creator: Hollingsworth, J. C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Designs by Lucinda]

Description: Photograph of a stand selling "read" pins, for fifteen dollars each. The stand, "Designs by Lucinda," was taken at the 40th anniversary Church and Synagogue Library Association conference held at the Inn at Valley Forge in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Date: 2007-07-12~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 40.101286 -75.383553
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New member for Wise Owl Club]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the induction of Fredrick W. Kittrell to the exclusive Wise Owl Club.
Date: June 16, 1954
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Combined Pen or Pencil Holder and Pin.

Description: Patent for a new and improved writing-utensil holder and pin. This design "not only forms a convenient receptacle for a pen or pencil, but . . . it is also adapted for use as an ornamental scarf or breast pin, and to this end the bands may be appropriately shaped to confine a stone or other setting, which can be held from endwise displacement, if necessary, by means of lugs . . . at each end of the bar" (lines 63-71).
Date: July 31, 1888
Creator: Stewart, Samuel F.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a car-coupling that has a "simple construction which can be operated without going between the cars both in coupling and in uncoupling, and also to provide for adjusting the height of the coupler or draw head so that cars of different heights can be readily coupled" (lines 17-22).
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Duggan, Nicholas S.
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Combined Car Coupling and Bumper.

Description: Patent for a combined car coupling and bumper. It has a draw-head with a throat, mouth, recess, and coupling pin hole; the recess has a slot that opens into the front of the draw-head; a lock-block that fits in the slot; a pin-seat that receives the lock-block; a spiral spring that holds in the pin-seat; and a coupling pin in the pin seat and a link.
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Wallace, William
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a novel, simple, and practical car coupling that has a link and gravity pin. It "may be set to coupe two of the improved couplings on approaching cars, when these devices engage each other, and also that may be manipulated by the usual lever or chain attachment to uncouple two connected drawheads, effecting such a detachment from the sides or roof of the car" (lines 12-19).
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Tiner, John F.
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvement in car-couplings by using many separate parts to work together to connect cars; and it can be operated without the operator going between the cars. Illustration is included.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Goss, Wilson Lumpkin
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for improvements in car-couplings in which it can be adapted “to the draw-heads of car-couplings that is already in used and that there need not be two similar couplings of this character in order to permit the device to operate successfully.” (Lines 74-78) Illustration is included.
Date: October 13, 1891
Creator: Yates, Junius E. M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Kristy and Mark Phillips at PTH table]

Description: Photograph of Kristy and Mark Phillips at the Portal to Texas History display table at the Dallas Heritage Village Pavilion for the DFW Archives Bazaar. There are wall posters, buttons, and pamphlets as handouts on the table and two standing display posters with newspapers and advertisements on display.
Date: October 14, 2018
Creator: Lehman, Lois
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.773264 -96.788703
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Display case on table]

Description: Photograph of a glass-top display box at a booth in the Dallas Heritage Village pavilion, where several tables were set up for the DFW Archives Bazaar. Inside the box are items kept at the Heritage Village's 'General Store' including hair-weavers, medicinal plasters, and advertisements. The note in the case reads "The Village's General Store lets visitors experience old fashioned commerce. We also have a collection of containers and ephemera of historic consumer goods. Groceries, household clea… more
Date: October 14, 2018
Creator: Williamson, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.773264 -96.788703
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Eagle Commons Library items]

Description: Photograph of the Eagle Commons Library display table at the Dallas Heritage Village Pavilion for the DFW Archives Bazaar. There are american flag candies, squirrel buttons, pencils, and US Constitutions for visitors to have and books like "Oral History for Texans" and others on display.
Date: October 14, 2018
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.773264 -96.788703
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[UNT Libraries table items]

Description: Photograph of the table display from UNT Libraries and Special Collections in the Dallas Heritage Village pavilion, where several tables were set up for the DFW Archives Bazaar. On the table is a display box, buttons, an interactive whiteboard, handouts and a large print photograph of people supporting the LGBT community at a night event.
Date: October 14, 2018
Creator: Williamson, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.773264 -96.788703
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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