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Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Katie E. Logan and Family]

Description: Portrait of Katie E. Logan and her family of three. It is unclear as to which woman is Katie E. Logan - the woman standing up or the woman sitting down. In addition to the women, two men are in the photograph, who in correspondence to the women both stand and sit. A written note on the back reads, "Katie E. Logan and Family, March 1, 1893."
Date: March 1, 1893
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Anna Oliver]

Description: Portrait of Anna Oliver, seated on a patterned chair, wearing a white dress with lace detailing around the collar and hemline. A hand written note on the back reads, "Anna Oliver, born 1894, father B. W. Oliver, Waco, TX."
Date: 1895
Creator: Sanders, M. L.
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Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Map of McLennan Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of McLennan County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:246,154] (6000 varas to 13/16 of an inch).
Date: 1896
Creator: Pressler, Herman
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.

Description: Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date: November 26, 1895
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.

Description: Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: White, Charles W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Band-Cutter and Feeder for Thrashing-Machines

Description: Patent for an attachment for thrashing-machines "for cutting the bands on the sheaves of wheat, rice, or other grain, to spread the loosened bundles out uniformly, and to then feed them thus spread out into the thrashing-machine, whereby the strain on the machine can be made more uniform" (lines 15-20) and the capacity and efficiency can be increased.
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Hill, Frank R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16).
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Hollingsworth, Joseph
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Clip for Type-Writers.

Description: Patent for a clip for type-writers for Remington or similar type-writers that holds post-cards, envelopes, and similar short items in place. The invention prevents "the blurring or bad impression which is apt to be made, more particularly in machines having type bars with two types each, when the paper is not held firmly to the roller or platen" (lines 12-16).
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Gibson, Allen J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal-Poke.

Description: Patent for "a combined animal poke and halter of simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby stock to which the device is applied are prevented from forcing through or throwing their weight against barbed and other wire fences, and also whereby a halter strap or chain may be readily applied thereto to provide for securing the stock in their stalls when stabled." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1896
Creator: Parker, William H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Funeral Notice for Jennie Beville]

Description: Funeral notice for Jennie Beville. It reads: "Funeral Notice. DIED - Tuesday Morning at 12:30, February 7, 1893, Mrs. Jennie Beville, Wife of Dr. A. A. Beville. The friends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the family residence, to-day, [Tuesday] at 3 o'clock. Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery [a part of First Street Cemetery], Rev. H. M. Whaling officiating."
Date: February 1893
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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