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Baling - Press.

Description: Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Curry, Monroe & Roberts, William P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Postcard of Farmers Union Warehouse]

Description: Postcard of a man standing between stacks of cotton bales in a large barn, with the caption, "Rogers Tex. Farmers Union Warehouse." A handwritten note on the back of the postcard is addressed to Miss Annie Wiggers in Temple, Texas and says, "Hello. How are you this eve? I am down in the bottom cutting wood now. Got 8 more boys with me. We are having a good old time. Well how was preaching Sunday? Mattie & Leo. Kreuger were at our house Sunday. All went to Knob Creek to prayer meeting Sunday nig… more
Date: January 24, 1907
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Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Gertrude Osterhout, September 24, 1880]

Description: Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his daughter, Gertrude Osterhout, discussing affairs at home. He wrote about his family's health and a show that came to Belton, Texas that his sons went to see. He told Gertrude that he hoped he would come to like the doctors she worked with and that his son needed to start working on their cotton crop.
Date: September 24, 1880
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
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[Compress in Temple]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Temple Cotton Compress, a wooden structure with a tower and smoke stack, with rows of bales of cotton and several men moving individual bales in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Compress, Temple, Texas." There is handwritten correspondence on the back of the postcard.
Date: May 1, 1909
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Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Knee-Protector.

Description: Patent for a durable, sleeve-like knee protector which contours the knee for comfort and allows for easy application and removal. Includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: McCall, Dougald Bell
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper. The invention "relates to cotton-choppers, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device of this class whereby grass, weeds, and the like may be removed from the spaces between stands of cotton, corn, and similar vegetation" (line 8 - 13).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Taylor, William Harlow
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Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer

Description: Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
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Cotton Stalk Cutter

Description: Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. This invention is designed for cutting cotton stalks while mounted on an axle, consisting a frame whereby the cutter could be adjusted.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Hallmark, Ples C.
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Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
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Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates … more
Date: November 21, 1893
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
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Cotton-Compress.

Description: Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L. & Bessonette, William T.
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[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig, September 30, 1950]

Description: Letter from D. W. Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig expressing pleasure at receiving his letter and clarifying a misunderstanding about correspondence during a trip. He apologizes for any missed letters, especially one to the Grand Hotel. He also mention poor reports of the cotton crop in his area and the impact on business in Galveston. He is pleased that Mr. Bertig has a television set and shares their travel experiences in Europe. .
Date: September 30, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
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Partner: Rosenberg Library

Cotton Cleaner And Gin Feeder

Description: Patent for a cotton cleaner and gin feeder. This invention is designed to clean cotton of impurities and then feed the cotton into the gin. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Norris, Mishael E. & Norris, Jesse L.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction and design of cotton-choppers.
Date: December 27, 1887
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
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Device for Packing Cotton.

Description: Patent for an improvement in devices for packing and compressing cotton in press-boxes. This patent is an improvement on the inventor's previous Letters Patent of the United States granted June 26, 1883, No. 280,333.
Date: December 15, 1885
Creator: Summer, Dewitt C.
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