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Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
Date: August 13, 1872
Creator: Gaines, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner, Jr., to Harris Leon Kempner, 1963]

Description: Handwritten letter from Harris Leon "Shrub" Kempner, Jr., to his father discussing a trip to Mexicali, reporting when the gin there will be operational and when the cotton crop should be delivered. He discusses the attributes of a person named Paco who is running the operations there. He also provides details of money spent on the trip and requests a refund.
Date: 1963-08~
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon, Jr.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[News Script: Cotton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 1957's first bale of cotton grown in North Texas being processed at the Dietz cotton gin at Crandall.
Date: August 7, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cotton]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 1957's first bale of cotton grown in North Texas being processed at the Dietz cotton gin at Crandall.
Date: August 7, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to D. W. Kempner, August 24, 1950]

Description: Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to D. W. Kempner providing updates about the night watchmen on Kempner's estate, cotton gin reports, correspondence from Bill Keyser, a meeting with John Harris about the Galveston Orphans' Home, cotton sold to Japan, seed prices, and notice that he is leaving for Paragould.
Date: August 24, 1950
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[William Eason Findley's Cotton Yard]

Description: Stereographic photographs of William Eason Findley's cotton yard. Four workers face the camera standing among of long rows of cotton bales set on the grass. A building and a set of machinery, known as the Munger gin process, are visible in the background.
Date: August 25, 1911
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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