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Sweet potatoes gathered from City's Victory Garden

Photograph of men gathering sweet potatoes from Austin's Victory Garden. Baskets of sweet potatoes are visible in the foreground and cars are parked along the road in the background. Image was used in the City's 1943 Annual Report.

Date: November 9, 1943

Creator: Bureau of Identification Photographic Laboratory

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from Charles B. Moore to Mary Moore and Birdie McGee, November 9, 1897]

Letter from Charles B. Moore to Mary Moore and Birdie McGee in which he updates them on the cold weather; harvesting pears with Linnet; and the successes and failures of the garden and the crops. He also talks about the continuing construction on the house. He says that Billy Smith's daughter died.

Date: November 9, 1897

Creator: Moore, Charles B.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Potato-Cutter.

Patent for a potato cutter, which cuts potatoes into uniform slices for planting.

Date: November 23, 1909

Creator: Wise, James A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato Screening and Sorting Machine.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Potato Screening and Sorting Machines" (lines 6-8). "This invention relates to potato screening and sorting machines, and has for one of its objects the provision of a machine of this character, which is simple in construction, efficient in operation, and which can be manufactured at a nominal cost" (lines 13-18).

Date: November 23, 1915

Creator: Harris, Thomas Sanders & Morgan, Joseph Penell