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Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Advertising Device.

Description: Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "consist[s] in the fixed staff or upright having pulley, bent rotary vane having the opening, and adapted for the display of advertisements, inside [the] bent rotary vane, and the governor adapted to regulate automatically the speed at which the vanes are to revolve" (lines 68-80).
Date: February 19, 1884
Creator: Carly, John Wesly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal power (engine). This design "consists in an animal-power constructed with a small wheel placed loosely upon a stationary upright shaft, and connected by hinges with the inner ends of arms and sweeps attached to the main wheel, which is mounted upon caster-wheels to support the weight of the wheel and its attachments. . . . The object of this invention is to economize power and promote convenience" (lines 16-25).
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Knox, William Curtis
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General highway map Limestone County Texas

Description: Map shows mid-twentieth century city boundaries, highways, roads, railroads, oil fields, gas fields, and structures. Includes legend, key to counties, and population statistics. Scale not given.
Date: 1958
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Limestone County, State of Texas.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Limestone County, Texas land tracts, patents, date of title, and deed recording data; railroads and towns; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1888
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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