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[News Script: Car-wagon accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a collision between a car and a wagon in Fort Worth.
Date: September 11, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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 gableā€¦ more
Date: September 16, 1916
Creator: El Campo Studio
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Home of J. M. Foraker]

Description: Photograph of a group of people standing outdoors in front of two small barns. Two women are seated in a carriage drawn by one horse. A small boy is standing near the front of the photograph with a sign that has the date written on it. The caption states that the photograph depicts the home of J. M. Foraker.
Date: September 25, 1908
Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

[Postcard of a Fire Station, Bryn Mawr, Pa.]

Description: Postcard of the Bryn Mawr Fire Department at their new station, a two-story brick building with a belfry on the left. At the front of the station, there are three garage doors at the base, with a balcony above. The fire fighters are lined up with two horse-drawn wagons outside of their respective garage doors. On the back of the postcard, the sender has left a handwritten message that says, "As there is no principal strut here I will send you this. I am at St. David, Pa. These is nothing here bā€¦ more
Date: September 11, 1907
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard of a Horse-Drawn Hook and Ladder]

Description: Postcard of fire fighters in a horse-drawn wagon at a fire station. The garage at the station is labeled, "Hook & Ladder 4." On the back of the postcard, the sender has left a handwritten message that says, "At home again. Here the two views of Cen. Fire Sta. that I have sent you. Duplicates or not, please. [...] I may get new views for you now."
Date: September 10, 1912
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[People in Horse-Drawn Buggy]

Description: Photograph of three unidentified people (possibly members of the Palm family) riding in a buggy drawn by two horses up a steep path in a canyon with rocks, shrubs, and other plants on the sides of the path and the bottom and walls of the canyon visible in the background. The photograph was taken during a family trip to Blue Springs.
Date: 1912-09-07/1912-09-08
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Postcard of Musee de Versailles]

Description: Postcard of a grand horse-drawn carriage painted blue and accented with gold, with a large crowd in the background. The scene is described as "Musee de Versailles - Voiture du Mariage de Napoleon I." The letter is illegible. The postcard is addressed to "Miss M. McFaddin 1906 McFaddin Ave Beaumont, Texas, U.S.A."
Date: September 3, 1908
Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

Beeville Main Street 1914

Description: View of Washington Street in 1914 looking north. The red brick three stories building on the left was the first ā€œskyscraperā€ for Beeville. It was the Grand Opera House, built by A.F. Rees and E.J. Kinkler at the corner of Washington and Bowie Streets in 1907, and opened in 1908. Many Broadway stage plays, musical comedies, and light operas were presented in the opera house. The building was destroyed by fire in 1919. The building to the left of the Grand Opera House was Beevilleā€™s first baā€¦ more
Date: September 29, 1914
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

[A horse-drawn carriage at the 13th annual County Seat Saturday in Denton]

Description: Photograph of a horse-drawn carriage at the 13th annual County Seat Saturday in Denton, Texas. The carriage is white with red seats along with large, spoked wheels. The black canopy of the carriage has been left down, revealing the dark hair of the vehicle's single occupant. At the back of the carriage is some text vaguely resembling "Doubieliee Carriages" and "631-4996" along with a red high-visibility triangle. Pulling the carriage is one horse with a brown coat, white feet, a white mane and ā€¦ more
Date: September 12, 1998
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cars driving past the square on County Seat Saturday]

Description: Photograph of cars driving past the square on County Seat Saturday. The camera captures a view of the square where cars move towards the right sight of the photo across a multi-lane road, passing by horses in full tack and the courthouse at the center of the square. Amongst the cars in the photo's foreground are a few people standing next to vars or crossing the street. One car's passenger door is opened by a still-seated occupant. Beyond the cars, on the lawn surrounding the courthouse, a largā€¦ more
Date: September 28, 1991
Creator: Thomas Judd Photography
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farmers Union Cotton Yard]

Description: Photographs of a farmers' union cotton yard in Coolidge, Texas. On an wide, plain field are horse-drawn wagons full of cotton. In the far background are possibly piles or stacks of cotton bales.
Date: September 1, 1911
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Vehicle-Axle.

Description: Patent for a vehicle axle for buggies, which has easy access to the inner parts of the axle for repair and runs easily.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: York, Doctor Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame.

Description: Patent for a hame that has an improved fastening device that easily secures trace chains or tugs to the harness. It is easily adjustable.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent for a draft equalizer for vehicles drawn by three horses. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Tedder, Iverson, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Equalizers

Description: Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Wagon and carriage]

Description: Photograph of a wagon and a carriage on an open prairie, each hitched to a team of two horses. Three people are visible in the wagon, which has a canvas stretched over the passengers. Five people are visible on the covered carriage, including a boy standing on a running board.
Date: September 1912
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Horse-Releaser

Description: Patent for a horse releaser that allows the quick removal of horses from a vehicle in case of an emergency.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Burleson, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Tom Roberts' Produce Display at the Llano Hotel]

Description: Photograph of Tom Roberts' display of produce in front of the Llano Hotel in Midland. The produce, sourced from Roberts' farm west of Midland, has been brought in front of the hotel on a wagon pulled by two horses and a cow, and the display bears tall sheaths of grain, watermelons, vegetables, small fruits, and other large produces placed within the wagon and adjacent to its wheels. Tom Roberts, who owned the first herd of registered Jersey cattle in the county, leans against his wagon (marked ā€¦ more
Date: September 1906
Partner: Midland Historical Society
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