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[News Clip: Farmworkers]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 9, 1982, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Threshing-Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date: February 9, 1869
Creator: Fuos, Matthias
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harvester

Description: Patent for a harvester for corn and other, similar crops with a cutting mechanism that may be raised or lowered based on the height of the stalks. Illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Parton, Andrew Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Threshing crew]

Description: Photograph of men at work threshing wheat. The thresher is in the center background, with the tractor powering it at the right. Several men stand on or around the machinery.
Date: August 9, 1911
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Threshing crew]

Description: Photograph of a threshing crew at work. Two horse-drawn wagons loaded with wheat are in a line next to the thresher, which is spewing chaff onto a large mound. Stacks of filled grain sacks stand to one side. Several men are at work on or around the machinery.
Date: August 9, 1911
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
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