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CHURN

Description: Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: HARRISON, DAVID M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Farmer's Market at the Dancing Pavilion at Elmhurst Park]

Description: This photograph, printed in A.F. Weaver's "TIME WAS IN Mineral Wells..." on page 88, illustrates a display of fruit jars at the Mineral Wells Fair, held at the Dancing Pavilion at Elmhurst Park. Canned fruits and vegetables were customarily entered in Palo Pinto County's annual fall harvest fair. Elmhurst Park hosted the fair, among other popular events during its heyday. The popularity of personal automobile transportation made transit by street car unprofitable by 1913, and the p… more
Date: 1910?
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Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Bale-Tie Buckle

Description: Patent for a bale-tie buckle which can be fastened quickly. The bale-tie buckle "can be economically manufactured," is "capable of resisting enormous pressure," and "can be quickly and easily placed on the bands or ties."
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
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Bale-Tie.

Description: Patent for bale ties that "have the securing members permanently connected" (lines 12-13) and do not have projecting ends that could damage cotton bales or other fibrous materials.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: McFarland, Frank H.
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Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: McFarland, Frank Hays
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Apparatus for Destroying Weevils.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for destroying weevils and moths, infesting corn, peas, hay, sweet potatoes, beans, and the like, when stored. The apparatus consists of a container with an improved means of distributing heat to the contents in which the weevils and moths are found.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Kasmeier, John
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Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that cleans burs and other foreign matter from cotton through a suction process prior to ginning, including instructions and illustrations. The inventor claims this apparatus is simpler, more affordable, and more effective than previous methods for cleaning cotton.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Brown, Thomas N.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Barrel-Stand.

Description: Patent for a barrel-stand "designed to support a barrel or other like dispensing receptacle" (line 10) to be tilted for pouring and can be held in a tilted or other fixed position.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Maier, Felix
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin at Tivoli [in] Refugio County, Texas

Description: Photograph of a gin at Tivoli in Refugio County, Texas. There is one large building and several smaller buildings. About a dozen wagons, filled with cotton or grain, can be seen. Also sacks of grain or cotton are stacked in a fenced area. A water tower stands in the background.
Date: August 13, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Victoria Sugar Mill under construction

Description: Photograph of Victoria Sugar Mill during construction in 1910. The mill was located above the shipyards south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks at the south end of Main Street in Victoria, Texas.
Date: August 11, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Farmers at Tivoli [in] Refugio County

Description: Photograph of a group of men standing in front of wagons and materials stacked on the ground beyond the wagons. One man is standing on top of one of the wagons. The stacked materials look to be sticks of wood. Tall stakes in the ground help to hold these materials in place. The men are unidentified as farmers in Tivoli Texas.
Date: August 13, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Gin at Tivoli, Refugio County, Texas

Description: Photograph of a gin at Tivoli in Refugio County, Texas. There is one large building and several smaller buildings. About a dozen wagons, seemingly filled with cotton or grain, can be seen. Also sacks of grain or cotton are stacked in a fenced area. A water tower stands in the background.
Date: August 13, 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Sugar house, Victoria [Texas] - first stage

Description: Photograph of the buildings and equipment for the sugar mill built in Victoria in 1910. The mill was located above the shipyards south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks at the south end of Main Street in Victoria, Texas.
Date: January 1910
Creator: Mitchell, J. D.
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Partner: Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Description: Patent for a bale tie buckle where "an internal shoulder adapter to cooperate with the tie or band to prevent the latter from accidentally slipping through the entrance throat in the buckle when the tie is slackened" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Schutz, Frank
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Farmers Union Cotton Yard]

Description: Photographs of a farmers' union cotton yard in Coolidge, Texas. On an wide, plain field are horse-drawn wagons full of cotton. In the far background are possibly piles or stacks of cotton bales.
Date: September 1, 1911
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
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Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

COTTON CLEANER

Description: This is a patent for a Cotton Cleaner. This new cotton cleaner is able to use air to rotate the rotors to then separate the dirty cotton from the clean cotton.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Cabrera, Maragarito
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Interior Bracing For Silos

Description: The invention relates to silos and the removable devices that prevent the silos from collapsing when empty. The object is to provide wooden stave silos with certain adjustable and economical braces which are easily and quickly applied. It will be highly efficient in preventing the blowing down or collapsing of silos when empty. They would also be able to be easily and quickly removed when the silos are being filled.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Galbraith, Henry William
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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