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Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine

Description: Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Cassel, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

High-Pressure Suction Fan and Blower.

Description: Patent for "a fan which will operate in a continuous and highly efficient manner and increase the air pressure with a reduced power of operation" and "may be used either in conjunction with a cotton gin...or it may be used for any other purpose where suction or blast fans are used" (lines 31-33, 10-15). It includes an illustration.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Blackmon, Enoch J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, December 2, 1813]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle. She writes about major general James Wilkinson's defeat at the Battle of Crysler's Farm. She mentions visiting John Done's family. She asks about their bank petition and the possibility of sending their daughter to a boarding school.
Date: December 2, 1813
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, July 2, 1815]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Eyre, while she was attending Madam Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia. She writes about how she misses her daughter and her cousins ask about her. She says that her servants are sickly and one of the enslaved persons of the household, Caleb, has passed.
Date: July 2, 1815
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, August 2, 1815]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, while she was attending Madam Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia. She lists the things she plans to send to her. She says that her family, servants, and enslaved persons miss Elizabeth Ann and mentions the possibility of going to visit her.
Date: August 2, 1815
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, November 2, 1815]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, while she was attending Madam Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia. She writes that Littleton Dennis Teackle, Elizabeth Ann's father, will be visiting her in Philadelphia in December. Also, Andrew D. Campbell has written the family and asked them to come visit him in Scotland. Elizabeth is very excited by this prospect and thinks it would be a great learning experience for her daughter.
Date: November 2, 1815
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
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