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Leg-Protector.

Patent for leg-protectors or overalls for cotton-pickers to wear to protect them from the ground. Waterproof material covers the legs of the wearer with leather reinforcement outside the knees. There is spacing around the waste for a belt, and regular fabric forms the rest of the overalls.

Date: June 23, 1896

Creator: Herbelin, Alfred

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Button.

Patent for a button that can fit in any buttonhole. It is "a bar having a button or know affixed thereto and having key-hole-slots, of a button attached to an arm having a tongue and a contracted offset portion adjacent thereto and between the same and the button carried thereby, the said tongue being of a thickness substantially the same as the width of the slot" (lines 55-62).

Date: July 21, 1896

Creator: Burroughs, John J.