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Car-Wheel Lubricator.

Description: Patent for a car-wheel lubricator that can be easily used while the wheels are moving or still, and does not waste lubrication. It attaches to two railway wheels.
Date: October 16, 1894
Creator: Reneau, James W.
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Lefléve, Louis
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Cattle-Guard for Railroads.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: Lee, Jacob M.
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Combined Shoot-Board and Squaring-Box.

Description: Patent for a combined shoot-board and squaring-box meant to square and shave "the edges of stereotype and other printing plates; ant to this end the invention contemplates a device of this character that will be of an exceedingly simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, while at the same time providing for an easy and accurate manipulation of the plates being operated upon" (lines 10-17).
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Owen, Thomas
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[Leila McClellan and Three Other Girls]

Description: Photograph of four young women taken from the shoulder up. The reverse side of the image provides some names, though a piece of paper is glued over some of the writing. The woman in the lower center is identified as Leila McClellan.
Date: August 1894
Creator: Guy & Cooke
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