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Cotton year in Killeen, Texas

Photograph, taken 1905 or 1906, depicts cotton loaded on a railroad car. A group of men stand atop the bales and alongside on a platform; men sit in two horse-drawn drays next to the pile of bales. The caption for the photograph reads: Loading bales of cotton on flat cars at Santa Fe Station in a bumper cotton year. Two-wheeled drays (left) hauled bales from cotton yard located in the 400 block of Avenue D.

Date: 1905~/1906~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Killeen City Library System

[Cotton Baling Inside Mill]

Two near-identical images of a cotton baling press in use at a mill. A bale is at the front and a man is standing just behind it at left, near the machinery. There is a blur where the man moved during the exposure. Descriptive text printed below the images in the lower-right corner: "7722- Baling Cotton--a powerful press just releasing a 500-lb. bale--at a mill in Texas." The same text is printed on the back in six languages

Date: 1905

Creator: Sun Sculpture Works and Studios

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Cotton Gin

Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.

Date: March 7, 1905

Creator: Fuller, James T.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Gins" (lines 4-5) with description and drawings. Improvements include a "lint-removing mechanism and designed...especially for reginning or delinting cotton-seed" (lines 13-15) and the abiity to stop the float and delinting process instantly.

Date: September 12, 1905

Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.