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[News Clip: Farmers Cotton]

Description: VB-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 24, 1981, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the … more
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Turnpaugh, James William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Cotton Queen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ginners Day at the State Fair, with Anita Ardinger in attendance as the Queen of Cotton.
Date: October 13, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Webb Cotton Gin Burns]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire at a cotton gin.
Date: October 5, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Seed Scale Hopper]

Description: Photograph of the the seed scale hopper for weighing cotton seed in the Burton Farmer's Gin with printed text at the top that says, "S[...] Weight on Seed Scale." There are chains above the chute and the wall behind it is made of corrugated metal.
Date: October 1978
Creator: Felder, Greg
Partner: Texas Cotton Gin Museum

[Seed Scale]

Description: Photograph of the seed scale on the second floor of the Burton Farmer's Gin including visible rafters and corrugated metal roofing. Windows are visible in the background, on the right side of the image.
Date: October 1978
Creator: Felder, Greg
Partner: Texas Cotton Gin Museum
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