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Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press
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Industrial Accidents in the California Oil Fields

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on a study of the causes of employee accidents in California oil fields during the year of 1921 - 1922. This investigation was conducted to develop safety procedures and future accident prevention. This report includes tables.
Date: December 1923
Creator: Miller, H. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[The Williams boys on a beach]

Description: Photograph of Charles, Byrd III, and John Williams on a beach in California. John looks at the camera while his hands are placed on a toy construction vehicle. Byrd looks down at the toy truck he is playing with, in the sand. Charles sits next to John and looks at the camera. All three boys are wearing coats and hats.
Date: 1923~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Williams boys with a girl]

Description: Photograph of John, Charles, and Byrd Williams III with a young girl. The girl is possibly Mary Ellen Williams, eldest daughter of Byrd Jr's brother, Robert Johnson Williams. The children appear to be standing on a hill with multiple houses in the background.
Date: 1924~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Byrd and John Williams]

Description: Photograph of Byrd III and John Williams, standing on a rocky shore, looking at the ocean. They stand next to one another with their backs to the camera.
Date: 1923~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Williams boys with a girl and a dog]

Description: Photograph of John, Charles, and Byrd Williams III with a young girl and Brownie the dog. The girl is possibly Mary Ellen Williams, eldest daughter of Byrd Jr's brother, Robert Johnson Williams. The children appear to be standing on a hill with multiple houses in the background.
Date: 1924~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Evening coat

Description: Clutch style coat of floral brocade and blue velvet. The mid-length wrap coat is made of jacquard woven silk in a pattern of flowers in blues, taupe, and browns on a dark brown ground, with metallic gold stitching throughout. The raglan sleeves and the collar are edged in wide bands of shirred aqua blue/green velvet. Center front opening with no closures. The coat is lined in aqua blue/green velvet. No labels in garment.
Date: 1926
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Plastic Magnesia

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the production methods and uses of plastic magnesia. Methods, properties, and uses of plastic magnesia are discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1925
Creator: Ralston, Oliver C.; Pike, Robert D. & Duschak, Lionel H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin applies to that part of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts in the irrigated regions of the West; it aims to aid those familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those whic… more
Date: 1928
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Eelworm Disease of Wheat and Its Control

Description: Revised edition. "The eelworm disease of wheat, long known in Europe, has been found during the past year causing considerable damage in Virginia and in isolated localities in West Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, and California. Every effort should be made to control the trouble in these infested regions, to prevent its further spread, and to find other localities where the disease may exist. The disease may be recognized on young and old plants and in the thrashed wheat by the descriptions given … more
Date: 1920
Creator: Byars, Luther P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rhodes Grass

Description: Revised edition. "Rhodes grass was introduced from southern Africa in 1902, and has proved of value for cultivation in the warmer parts of the United States, being grown more largely in Florida and Texas than elsewhere.... It makes a heavy yield of hay of excellent quality, as the stems are slender, tender, and very leafy. The hay is cured easily and is relished by all kinds of live stock.... This bulletin mentions the soil preferences of this grass and gives the methods of seeding and after-tr… more
Date: 1922
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1928

Description: From introduction: The district discussed in this report embraces the entire northern peninsula of Michigan and the parts of northern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota that were covered by a re-advance of the Superior lobe of the Labrador ice sheet late in the Wisconsin stage of glaciation.
Date: 1929
Creator: Mendenhall, W. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Byrd Williams Jr. on a beach]

Description: Photograph of Byrd Williams Jr. standing on a rocky beach in a suit. He stands with his hands behind his back and looking at the camera. The ocean tide can be seen rolling in, behind him. He wears a mid-tone suit, light-colored shirt, dark tie, and a hat.
Date: 1923~
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Dodder

Description: Report discussing the weed commonly known as dodder or love vine and methods for controlling it. If procedures are properly followed, eradication of the weed in the United States is possible. Topics include varieties of dodder and plants that susceptible to attack by it, its life cycle, and ways it is unintentionally introduced to farms.
Date: 1921
Creator: Hansen, A. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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