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Bale-Band Buckle

Description: Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Martin, Joseph W.
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Baling-press

Description: Patent for a baling-press that will prevent hay or other material from jamming the mechanisms used to bale it.
Date: December 8, 1900
Creator: Dennis, Felix Henry
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Farm Equipment

Description: Copy negative of a picture of a drawing of a steam engine and steel separator flier. The drawing shows the steam engine in use on a field. There are also several people working around the field. "A Steam Engine and Steel Separator for $880, 6. H.P. Engine (18 Brake H.P.). $500" is written under the drawing.
Date: unknown
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Boys Posing on Cotton Bales; Boys Posing on Cotton Binder

Description: 1 copy negative of two images. The first image shows four of V. E. Costephen's sons posing with a dog atop cotton bales in a field near Mulberry Creek. The boys are dressed in work clothes with suspenders and are smiling while pointing towards the camera. The second image shows three of V. E. Costephens's sons posing atop a cotton binder. The binder is in a field near Mulberry Creek. The boys are also dressed in work clothes with suspenders.
Date: unknown
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustrati… more
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: McCaul, James L.
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Corn or Grain Knife.

Description: Patent for an improved corn or grain knife that is simpler in construction and inexpensive to produce. This corn or grain knife is "adapted for use in the hand of the user for clipping the tops of standing grain such as corn, by the simple act of opening and closing the hand" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Holliday, Thomas B.
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Chamber Banquet at Rose Field House

Description: Copy negative of tools next to the Rose Field House. This image was taken at the chamber of commerce banquet in Abilene, Texas. On display with signs are mowers and tools. Signs read "Little Tuffy Mower cuts grass, weeds and brush...Abilene Machine Co" and "Little Tuffy Keep Your Lease Clean! Cut Your Lawn... See Your Dealer... Thornton's, Barry's Marine & Sport Shop, Firestone Store" and "Rough Neck Special... Heat Your Rivets, Shoe Your Horse, Dress Your Tools, Broil Your Steaks, It's Smar… more
Date: unknown
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