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Family Picture #2

Description: Copy negative of the De Rusha family. Eliza and Robert stand behind their children; the boys stand off to the side and their daughter, Mary Lilas, stands directly in front of her father. The women are wearing dresses, the men are wearing long pants and long-sleeved shirts, and all of them are wearing hats. They are standing in an open field.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Family Picture #1

Description: Copy negative of the De Rusha family. Eliza and Robert stand behind their children; the boys stand off to the side and their daughter, Mary Lilas, stands directly in front of her father. The women are wearing dresses, the men are wearing long pants and long-sleeved shirts, and all of them are wearing hats. They are standing in an open field.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Horse Detacher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the whiffletree-support, the whiffletree, the hinge connecting such parts having its upper and lower plates secured, respectively, to the whiffletree and its support and jointed at their rear edges, and the arm or lever extended forward from the upper plate, whereby upward draft on said arm or lever will turn the whiffletree backward from its normal position to release the traces" (lines 91-100).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Harrison, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Irrigating Land.

Description: Patent for a new and improved irrigation machine. This design "consists in an irrigating-pipe having lapped side joints and notches in the inner edges of the lapped joints. The invention also consists in the combination, with a tank, of a trough below it, tubes projecting from the trough, and irrigating-pipes connected with the said tubes" (lines 12-18).
Date: November 17, 1885
Creator: Briggs, Elias
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bedstead Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails and head and foot boards, of the plates having angular projections provided with wedge-shaped grooves and small inclined recesses at their upper parts, and the plates having the tapering wedge-shaped projections provided with the lugs integrally formed with their upper portions and adapted to engage the recesses, whereby when the projecting engaging portions of the plates . . . wea… more
Date: December 27, 1887
Creator: McCormick, Henry Jasper
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "for cultivating stubble, sugar-cane, cotton, corn, and other plants planted in rows or drills, which will remove the soil from the sides of the rows without injuring the roots, and will throw soil around the plants, and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use" (lines 15-21).
Date: May 10, 1881
Creator: Brenner, August William & Fraser, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridge

Description: Patent for the construction of substantial bridges of wood adapted for long spans, and which can be put up where iron bridges would be too expensive.
Date: May 24, 1881
Creator: Brenner, August W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Copy-Holder for Record-Books, &c.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient copy-holder meant for recording things. The invention feeds paper line by line, so the records are straight. The copy-holder also holds the pages of a book in place.
Date: July 30, 1895
Creator: Powell, Phanor P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Map of northwestern] Coleman County [Texas]

Description: Map shows property boundaries, tract numbers, landowners, acreage, roads, railroads, towns, water resources, and oil wells; layout for town of Silver Valley. Includes handwritten notations in color. Scale not given.
Date: [1909..1929]
Creator: Caldwell, J. P.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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