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Soren Jensen/Peter Jensen Home

Description: Photograph of a farmstead in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Soren and Peter Jensen. Photograph was taken at a distance from the buildings, capturing a large portion of the cotton plantation that accompanying information states was being cultivated. Past the cotton, on the left side, there is a two-story house with an intersecting gable roof. One double-hung window is visible on the top floor. In the middle, there appears to be a windmill, and past it, towards the right of the photograph, there a… more
Date: 1917
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Cotton Calculator

Description: Pamphlet with printed tables used to calculate prices of cotton. According to the title page, "Showing the results of any multiplications of all quantities from 300 to 600, at rates beginning with 1-20c or 5 points, and advancing in five points, one-sixteenth, one-eighth and one-quarter of a cent, and by cents from one to thirty." The title page also includes examples to show how to use the tables for calculations.
Date: 1917
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Process of Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Cotton.

Description: Patent for improvements to the processes of ginning, cleaning, and bleaching cotton, and "particularly to stripping the lint cotton from the seed and for treating cotton with an air treatment after it leaves the saws" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
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Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins.

Description: Patent for an invention that improves mote boards for cotton gins by causing the "impurities and dust thrown off by the centrifugal action of the brush to be conducted away by a dust passage" (lines 19-22).
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Wooldridge, James L.
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Cotton Tramper and Baler.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton tramper and baler that can more efficiently compress cotton into bales that are convenient for handling and shipping.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Crowell, Pearl K.
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Cotton-Square-Gathering Device

Description: Patent for cotton square gathering device will "provide a gatherer by means of which the punctured squares can be quickly collected off of the ground without compelling the user to bend, as ordinarily, with the result that a much smaller number of people can gather the punctured squares in a given area than has been possible heretofore in a given length of time" (lines 21 - 28).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Summers, Martin Vandver & Passmore, Henry Tracy
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Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.

Description: Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date: September 17, 1917
Creator: Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
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Cotton-Threshing Machine.

Description: Patent for a cotton threshing machine with wheels designed to be constructed in the cotton field and easily moved to different parts of the field.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
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Cotton-Cleaning Cultivator Attachment

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton-cleaning cultivators. The improved cultivator "is designed for cleaning cotton or similar crops so as to eliminate the necessity of hoeing cotton," (line 14-16) uproot unwanted surrounding plants, and level ridges formed while cultivating cotton.
Date: December 29, 1917
Creator: Hasting, Thomas
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for cotton-chopper improvements providing a longer elliptical orbit for the hoe in order to chop closer to the ground.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Noblett, Adontram J.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a machine to thin and cultivate cotton plants without covering them with debris. Designed to be used with most cultivators and to be inexpensive to construct.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Gunn, Jc. Christon
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Sack for Cotton-Pickers

Description: Patent for improvements to sacks of cotton-pickers which include adjustable, flexible, and tublar design that is reversible and detachable. It is open at both ends and includes detachable fasteners for these ends. Illustrations included.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Whiteker, Bosque M.
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