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Cleaning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a vacuum for cleaning cotton gins that attaches to the pneumatic elevators generally found in cotton gins.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Sadler, Arthur E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Cotton Compress]

Description: Photograph of an early cotton compress in Longview, Texas. When cotton was brought in to Longview, it was left in stacks on the street in front of F. T. Rembert's office. Eventually, the street where Rembert's office and businesses were located was named Cotton Street.
Date: 1900~
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Partner: Longview Public Library

Austin Cotton Gin

Description: Austin Cotton Gin was owned by W. T. Caswell and was located on the west side of Chicon St. Horse-drawn wagons with bales of cotton. Workers pose for photograph. Hand-crank loading cranes on platform.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Caswell, W. T.
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Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Austin Cotton Gin

Description: Austin Cotton Gin was owned by W. T. Caswell and was located on the west side of Chicon St. Horse-drawn wagons full of cotton. Workers pose for photograph.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Caswell, W. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Cotton year in Killeen, Texas

Description: 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: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Killeen City Library System

[Cotton Baling Inside Mill]

Description: 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: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[First cotton gin (built in 1906)]

Description: Postcard image of the first cotton gin in Rosenberg (built in 1906) during its 1907-08 ginning season. Man standing in foreground. Two men in wagon. Man standing on platform of gin. Bales of cotton on platforms. Two horses grazing on right. Mule wagon on right.
Date: 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Prude and Hood Store

Description: Photograph of Fealon Vaun Christian and John Prude standing outside of the Prude and Hood General Store. This store was between Mansfield and Logansport, Louisiana. It had everything from lace to snuff tp licorice. It had a huge bar inside, and the store served people from miles around. A cotton gin was to the west side of the store (back and left) where everyone brought their cotton to be ginned. The stor had advertising signs across the front. This photo was included in a research paper by M… more
Date: 1902
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Machine for Cutting Bagging.

Description: Patent for a cutting machine for cloth bags for cotton presses, which has cloth continuously being fed into it and cuts it at predetermined lengths which can be adjusted as needed.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Clark, Robert
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam and Air Valve Operator.

Description: Patent for a steam and air valve operator that allows "the rotative movement of element to be transformed into reciprocity movement of another element." (lines 11-13). It also has new setup for double gears within the device that allows rest of the parts between movements.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Greeson, David H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Baling Cotton.

Description: Patent for improvement in process of baling cotton is to “heat the cotton-bat at a point between the gin-condenser and the pressing-rollers, exposing the heated bat while incompact to the action of dry air, then compress the cotton-bat into bale form.” (Page 2, lines 39-43) Illustration is included.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Forming Round Bales.

Description: Patent for a method making round cotton bales at cotton gins more efficiently by providing a way of winding the bat of cotton into a ball in between press runs.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Feeder

Description: Patent for a gin feeder. This invention is designed with an automatic stop mechanism to terminate the feeding mechanism whenever the gin becomes choked. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Norris, Michael E. & Norris, Jesse L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Saw Cleaner

Description: Patent for a gin saw cleaner. Object of the invention "is to provide a gin saw cleaning device which may be forced into contact with the saw blades by pressure exercised in the direction of the length of the cleaning device" (line 14-19) Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Jordan, George J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Saw Cleaner

Description: Patent for gin saw cleaner. This invention operates on the cotton bulbs when they are damp and cling to the saw blade. Illustrations included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Henderson, Robert L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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