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[Cuellar Cafe interior with frame]

Description: Photograph of family members inside the Cuellar Café restaurant located in Kaufman, Texas. Two men and two women stand behind the counter. A woman stands next to the counter stools in front of the restaurant tables and chairs. Written on back of the photograph: "Cuellar Cafe, Kaufman, TX 1928 - Carolina (sister), Frank Cuellar Sr., Julia Cuellar, Isabel, Amos (brother). This place originated in June 7, 1928".
Date: 1928
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Report of the Twenty-First National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1928

Description: Report of the annual conference on weights and measures, hosted by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. It includes conference proceedings, a list of attendees, information about committees and officers, and other reports or commentaries discussed at the meetings.
Date: May 1928
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
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Choice of Profile for the Wings of an Airplane Part 2

Description: This report gives a general method for drawing airplane profiles. This method is useful, but it leads to a somewhat laborious drawing which becomes quite complicated when we take a transformation function having terms of a high degree.
Date: June 1928
Creator: Toussaint, A. & Carafoli, E.
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Steel Spars

Description: A history of English metal spar construction is presented in this paper. The way in which different spar designs or spar materials influence the aircraft wing loading and aerodynamics is described.
Date: April 1928
Creator: Martin, Brian L.
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Parachutes for Aircraft

Description: Report covering some characteristics of parachutes for aircraft. In order to provide the essential data on air resistance, rapidity of opening, shock stresses in opening, etc., for subsequent use, we will first give a few test results.
Date: February 1928
Creator: Müller, Waldemar
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