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[News Script: Haslet fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire near the W.H. Neely Cotton Gin in Haslet.
Date: September 15, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cotton picking system]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Ellis County farmer Marvin Borders, utilizing a new type of mechanical cotton picker to revolutionize his business.
Date: September 19, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

By-Pass Draft Fan

Description: Patent for bypass draft fans used for the functioning of pneumatic conveyors. Pneumatic conveyors are used to transport solid materials through pipelines with the flow of air or other gases. Most pneumatic conveyors are located in mechanical processing plants.
Date: September 2, 1919
Creator: Martin, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Isaacson Cotton Gin Company, El Campo, Texas]

Description: Black and white photograph of a building known as the Isaacson Gin Company, where cotton is processed. The building is made of wood and has several different sections to it. The yard just outside the company is teeming with horse-drawn or animal-drawn wagons. Each wagon is filled with cotton; some of them are covered with a tarp. In the distance, several houses are visible, as are dirt roads that lead to and from the company yard.
Date: September 16, 1916
Creator: El Campo Studio Photo
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

Isaacson Gin Company

Description: Photograph of the Isaacson Gin Company, a cotton gin in El Campo, Texas, taken from a high angle and from a distance, capturing the entire structure and the surrounding homes that surround it. Several horse-drawn wagons are moving in a procession in an arc formation from the south-facing wall of the gin to the north-facing one. Groups of men can be seen directing them. Others are seen on the ground and on platforms near the cotton bales. The gin itself is a large two-story structure with gable… more
Date: September 16, 1916
Creator: El Campo Studio
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner, September 24, 1956]

Description: Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner discussing total losses from the Merchants & Planters Compress & Warehouse Co., fees from The Bertig Company, bales ginned from Plantersville, storage updates from Liberty Press in New Orleans and Blackshear's upcoming departure for a wedding in Greenville, along with information regarding total cotton bale stock.
Date: September 24, 1956
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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