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[A Grist Mill]

Description: Color photograph of a red grist mill, a special antique relic on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Knelt next to it is a man named Matt Pantalion, who is from Nacogdoches. He is watching the grist mill work, as the conveyer belt rotates and the corn kernels, though only a few are visible, are processed.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy Using a Sugar Cane Mill]

Description: Color photograph of a young boy standing before a sugar cane mill, inserting a sugar cane into the opening at its front. The mill is made of metal and has wooden supports. A sign attached to the wood reads, "Sugar Cane, Courtesy of Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc." Directly behind the mill is a large pile of sugar cane stalks. Behind the pile of stalks is a white horse. A large tree limb visible just behind the top part of the mill spans the width of the photograph. The mill is a special a… more
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Matt Pantalion at Grist Mill]

Description: Photograph of Matt Pantalion, from Nacodoches, next to the grist mill at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is kneeling on the ground next to it with one hand on the funnel where the grain is poured in. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat, glasses, a white moustache, a button-up shirt, and jeans.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Frio County Peanut Growers Association Booth]

Description: Photograph of two women at the Frio County Peanut Growers Association booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman on the right is holding up a piece of peanut brittle and other people are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ruth Higdon at the Frio County Peanut Growers Association Booth]

Description: Photograph of Ruth Higdon at the Frio County Peanut Growers Association booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is holding a bowl of peanut butter and is wearing an apron that reads "Man doesn't live by bread alone, He also needs peanut butter."
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pickling and Preserving Booth]

Description: Photograph of a woman and a man at the pickling and preserving booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man is holding a spoon up to his mouth and there are samples on plates on the table. Other people are visible behind them.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pickling and Preserving Booth]

Description: Photograph of two women at the pickling and preserving booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jars of pickles and preserves are sitting on the table between the two women. Other visitors are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy Shelling Corn with a Machine]

Description: Color photograph of a young boy turning the wheel crank of a metal machine that shells corn, which is on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The machine's spout leads to a large metal bowl that catches the processed kernels. In the background is a fenced in area filled with corn husks. To the left of that area is a sign posted on a tree that reads, "Corn Shucking: 4-H Clubs of Medina."
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Corn Shelling Machine]

Description: Color photograph of a corn shelling machine, on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The machine is made of wood and has a bowl underneath it to catch the processed kernels. A young boy turns the crank on the side of the machine while a teenage boy who is operating the machine takes corn cobs from the next child in line. A woman in sunglasses stands to the left of the machine.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Shelling Corn]

Description: Color photograph of a group of children using a wooden hand-turned machine to shell corn. The machine is on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. As one child pushes a cob of corn down into an opening on the top of the machine, a young boy turns the crank on the side. A large bowl underneath the machine catches the processed kernels. Behind them is a large, partially fenced-in pile of corn husks.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Matt Pantalion at the Grist Mill]

Description: Color photograph of a man, Matt Pantalion, standing outside with a few people near a large piece of machinery called a grist mill. The grist mill is on display at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is gesturing with his hands in mid-speech to the people around him. Behind him, a man in a cowboy hat stands by the grist mill with a hand on its bin.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Milk Assn]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of law suit filed against milk producers who have incorporated violations against fair labor standard act.
Date: December 10, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

COTTON CLEANER

Description: This is a patent for a Cotton Cleaner. This new cotton cleaner is able to use air to rotate the rotors to then separate the dirty cotton from the clean cotton.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Cabrera, Maragarito
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Measuring and Proportioning Machine.

Description: Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
Date: May 5, 1896
Creator: Collins, Alonzo G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator that cools things "with the minimum expense for refrigerants; also, for affording ready access to the refrigerated substances" (lines 19-21). The cabinet has an outer layer, an inner layer, and a cooling layer. Ice is used to achieve lower temperatures.
Date: January 19, 1897
Creator: Cooley, Joseph H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fiber-Cleaning Device.

Description: Patent for a fiber cleaning device, which removes "the outer fleshy or non-fibrous tissues covering the fibers" (lines 19-21) for varieties of fleshy plants.
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Quijano, Ramon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Retainer or Dog

Description: Patent for improving a tool (dog) used in the operation of processing cotton bales. The (dog) tool does not require the replacement of other tools in cotton processing.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Cameron, Theodore R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Tramper and Baler.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton tramper and baler that can more efficiently compress cotton into bales that are convenient for handling and shipping.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Crowell, Pearl K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Silo.

Description: Patent for a feed storage building that allows silage to be discharged from bottom, removing the opportunity for air and spoilage organisms to affect remaining feed when silage is removed. A screw- or auger-like conveying device moves feed downward and eliminates the need for multiple points of door or window access in upper portions of the silo.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Round-Bale Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for a cotton press with a modified core pin that can be automatically removed from cylindrical bales through use of a hydraulic ram before the bale is expelled from the machine. This helps prevent the bales from coming apart (as would often happen when the core pin was removed by hand), and also has the advantage of creating bales with less dense centers, which aids with drying and helps prevent matting.
Date: unknown
Creator: Taft, John A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Sheet-Metal Vessels

Description: Patent for a cylindrical vessel made of sheet-metal rather than tin. Including a inward double hanging ledge and two layers of metal soldiered together.
Date: October 14, 1879
Creator: Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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