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[News Clip: Horse show]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 23, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Saddle factory fire]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 26, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Richardson Centennial Celebration

Description: Photograph of a line of horses in tack at the Centennial celebration. They are standing beside Richardson Public Library. A group of people are sitting on the window sills of the building. One person in the background is standing.
Date: June 1973
Partner: Richardson Public Library

Richardson Centennial Parade

Description: Photograph of cars parked in a line waiting to participate in the Centennial parade. A group of women wearing costumes are gathered around the back of a white Datsun car. Behind the white car, there are women dressed in costume gathered around a red convertible. In the background, there is a woman and horse on a grass lot, and people beside a red truck.
Date: June 1973
Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Horse Riding}

Description: Photograph of children riding horses and going on trail rides. Tacking and saddling horses in middle slide.
Date: [1969..1970]
Creator: Rogers, John & de Bruchard, Georgette
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Girth-Rigging for Side-Saddles.

Description: Patent for girth-rigging for side-saddles that secure the saddles so the saddles only move when the horse does. It has an extended "saddle-tree so as to produce shoulders, the same underlying the saddle-seat at its front and in supporting upon its shoulders and also upon the tree in rear of the cantle-girth suspension-straps that are continuous" (lines 24-29).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for an improvement in saddle trees that secures the saddle more firmly to the horse than other saddles.
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Tenison, Albert P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for a riding-saddle with a "short rigid tree, which constitutes the front or forked portion of the saddle, and [the inventor] construct[s] the body and cantle of pieces of thick but duly flexible leather" (lines 21-25). This makes the saddle more comfortable for both horse and rider.
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Whip-Holder.

Description: Patent for a whip holder that locks the end of the whip into the holder, and lap-robes and other similar articles can also be held in the invention so they cannot be stolen.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Reeves, Fountain O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for a ridding-saddle that is an improvement previously granted to Jesse D. Padgitt (No. 540,940). The improvements include increasing the strength to the flexible rear portion of the saddle. The first patent was for a saddle "distinguished by a tree or frame formed of a short rigid fork and a flexible body or rear portion, including a seat and cantle, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material" (lines 10-14).
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Padgitt, William C. & Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Stalk Puller

Description: Patent for a cotton stalk puller. This invention is a "wheeled farm implement that may be drawn by horse power along a row of cotton stalks and will pull the stalks out of the ground as it passes over them" (line 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Marshel, John B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shaft-Tug.

Description: Patent for a shaft tug for horse harnesses, which allows one side of the harness to be attached at a time.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Henshaw, Fred M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for an improved riding saddle that eliminates curling of saddle jockeys and chafing of rider's legs.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Hicks, Frank O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle.

Description: Patent for a buckle "wherein a closed frame or box is employed that is formed with a smooth exterior surface to avoid contact with and injury to the animals on which it is used, and prevent the reins from contacting therewith, and dispensing with the use of a guard thereover; and at the same time producing a secure fastening that is applied to straps without the necessity of the employment of stitches or other modes of fastening" (lines 9-18).
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Monday, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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