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[Train engine]

Description: Santa Fe locomotive 4045 (4000 class) pulls into the Sanger depot. Cotton gin in the background and the hand laid brick platform in the foreground.
Date: 1940~
Creator: Fuqua, Idaleene Scheu
Partner: Sanger Public Library

[News Script: Haslet fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire near the W.H. Neely Cotton Gin in Haslet.
Date: September 15, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Cotton Crop at Daniel Bros. Grain Gin]

Description: Photograph of a large group of wooden wagons full of cotton crops sitting in a yard in front of a two-story barn. Two electrical poles with electrical lines running between them and the barn stand in the yard as well. A small column of smoke is visible at the far right, beyond the group of wagons. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo indicate the building is a cotton gin belonging to the Daniel Bros.
Date: unknown
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Photograph of W. O. Daniel and O. H. Mcentee Gin]

Description: Photograph of a long, two-story metal barn, with electrical poles outside the front of the barn. A smaller wood building with a window sits in front of the left side of the barn, beyond an automobile. The buildings are situated in the middle of a bleak, barren area of dirt-covered ground. There is a decorative border surrounding the photo.
Date: unknown
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for improvements to Cotton-Gins' brush cylinders that includes "a longitudinal tubular member having a brush cylinder cooperating therewith and which serves as a conduit for the passage of the lint cotton from the gin and also as a connecting means for the legs of the gin frame and as an end outlet for the gin, and leaving the rear of the latter unobstructed and freely accessible" (lines 13-21), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
captions transcript

[News Clip: Cotton picking system]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Ellis County farmer Marvin Borders, utilizing a new type of mechanical cotton picker to revolutionize his business.
Date: September 19, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Bale-Tie Buckle

Description: Patent for bale tie buckle that is adapted for use on high density cotton bales, and provide a simple buckle which has requisite strength, can be tied on the bales with great rapidity, can be used at the gins as the bales are first made, can be rapidly removed from the bales of cotton when taken to the compresses without injury to the buckle, and which will be ready for immediate reuse on either the standard bale or the high density compressed bale.
Date: 191X
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Huller-Gins

Description: Patent for the type of cotton gin known as huller gins. It is an attachment intended to force cotton through portions of the huller gin that often becomes blocked by accumulated detritus.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Prichard, William Mathews
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Sack Hanger.

Description: Patent for a hanger designed to easily attach and detach from a cotton sack without damaging the sack or the hands of a cotton picker. It is designed to be made of a single piece of material and may be used to hang the sack on a scale for weighing the contents.
Date: July 22, 1919
Creator: Hamrick, Walter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

By-Pass Draft Fan

Description: Patent for bypass draft fans used for the functioning of pneumatic conveyors. Pneumatic conveyors are used to transport solid materials through pipelines with the flow of air or other gases. Most pneumatic conveyors are located in mechanical processing plants.
Date: September 2, 1919
Creator: Martin, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Mills County Planter's Gin]

Description: Photograph of a large, corrugated metal building with four men standing in front of the entrance at the bottom center of the photograph. Writing on the top edge of the photo reads, "Planter's Gin" and text written on the back reads "Planters Gin Mills County". Another line of text on the back is scribbled out.
Date: unknown
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

[Goldthwaite Gin]

Description: Photocopy of two barn-like structures that appear to be close by or attached to one another, with a smokestack coming out of the structure on the right. A wood tower with a large,barrel-shaped container at the top is visible center of the photo between the two buildings. A man is visible standing in a wide opening in the second floor of the building on the left. "Goldthwaite Gin" is written on the back.
Date: unknown
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library
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