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Threshing Rice on O. R. Johnson's Rice Farm

Description: Photograph of a group of men outdoors threshing rice on a rice farm one mile east of El Campo (this information is repeated on the back of the photograph's mat in hand-written text). The farm belonged to O. R. Johnson. The actual thresher is on the far right of the image, a large machine with several wheels and a conical pipe on its leftmost side. To the left, there are horses, some being ridden, while others appear to be harnessed to various equipment. Several bales of rice surround them on … more
Date: 1912~
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Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Washburn Wheat Harvest Crew]

Description: Photograph of a wheat harvest crew by a thresher and pile of wheat in Washburn, Texas; on the left a young woman and two men are standing on top of the machine, five men are standing in front of it in the center, and on the right two men are standing on the pile of straw holding pitchforks.
Date: July 16, 1914
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Wheat Harvest Equipment and Crew]

Description: Photograph of a man in the back of a horse-drawn wagon throwing a bale of wheat into a threshing machine in front of a large mound of wheat; another man is standing on top of the machine, another is on the ground in front of it, and on the right several men are sitting on top of sacks of wheat.
Date: [1911..1934]
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Threshing Machine

Description: Patent for machine adapted to operate upon maize, Kafir corn, cane, and the like so as to effectively remove or rub off the seed or grains, without crushing or breaking the same.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Newsom, John W.
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Process of Obtaining Oil and Stock Food from Cotton-Seed.

Description: Patent for a process for preparing stock food and extracting oil from cotton seed. The objectives include obtaining more oil from seed and a very nutritious stock food. The other objectives are eliminating waste of the residue after the oil has been extracted, regulating protein, and killing germs from the food. The patent includes illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1913
Creator: Covey, Thomas H.
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Grass and Weed Cutter

Description: Patent for devicd for the cutting of grass and pulling of weeds from the root. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Taylor, Lawrence S.
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Wind-Stacker

Description: Patent for a wind stacker to be adapted to threshers. Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Richmond, George E.
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Folding Grain-Harvester Reel.

Description: Patent for making the arms of the folding reels of grain harvesters shiftable and creating a way to brace the arms and hold them in different positions.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Buchanan, David E.
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Cotton-Threshing Machine.

Description: Patent for an improvement to cotton-threshing machines that threshes "the cotton crop by extracting and separating the cotton locks from the bolls and stalks" (lines 13-15). This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Patterson, Warren A. & Kemp, Joseph A.
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Cotton-Picking Machine

Description: Patent for a cotton picking machine. An improvement on the cotton picking machine that uses a pair of picking drums with attached picking fingers.
Date: April 6, 1915
Creator: Pruser, Gustav A.
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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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[Threshing crew]

Description: Photograph of a threshing crew at work. Two wagons loaded with bundles of grain are at the left, adjacent to the threshing machine at the center. Several men are standing on the wagons and on the ground nearby. A group of women stands at the end of a stack of bags filled with grain. A large mound of chaff is in the background.
Date: August 1919
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Threshing crew]

Description: Photograph of a threshing crew at work. The tractor powering the threshing machine is in the foreground, with a horse-drawn wagon loaded with grain bundles standing next to the threshing machine. Four men are visible on the machinery or standing on the ground. A large mound of chaff is in the background.
Date: August 1919
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Threshing crew]

Description: Photograph of a threshing crew feeding bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon into a threshing machine. One man stands on the wagon, one man on the ground. A large mound of chaff is in the background.
Date: August 1919
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Threshing crew and wagons]

Description: Photograph of a threshing crew at work. Two horse-drawn wagons loaded with bundles of grain stand next to the threshing machine, an empty wagon is pulling away in the foreground, and a smaller, empty wagon stands between them. Six men are visible on the wagons. An automobile stands at the right of the right, and a large mound of chaff is in the background.
Date: August 1919
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Seed-Grader.

Description: Patent for a machine which uses blasts of air to separate batches of commingled seeds or to sort one type of seed into groups according to size. Designed to be easily cleaned and repaired.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Leach, Grover C.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to cotton choppers and the primary object of the invention is to provide a cotton chopper which may be mounted upon any cultivator frame and which will operate easily and efficiently to thin out standing cotton or other plants which are growing in rows" (lines 5-15).
Date: December 7, 1915
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
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