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[Trading Card: Houston Toad]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Bastrop State Park, depicting a Houston toad with a distended vocal sac, sitting on the ground. The back of the card provides information about the species.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
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[Trading Card: Civilian Conservation Corps]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Buescher State Park, depicting a historic, black-and-white photograph of a group of men working in a park. Information on the back of the card discusses the history of the Corps.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
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Combination-Flue.

Description: Patent for the improvement of combination flue to be more inexpensive and for the parts to be more readily assembled and properly supported.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Carl, Reinhold Adolph
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Violin.

Description: Patent for an improved violin that is meant to "improve the acoustical properties of the instrument whereby it is enabled to give forth a deeper and softer tone, free from the "twang" common in instruments of this character, and second, to improve the mechanical construction of the instrument so that it will be less liable to become split" (lines 26-33).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Clopton, John B.
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Vehicle for Cotton Pickers.

Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle for picking cotton. This design "consists in a three-wheeled vehicle provided with a seat, in combination with a suitable frame which is supported at one end upon two wheels, and which is loosely attached at its other end to the axle of the three-wheeled vehicle, and which is used for carrying the bag or basket which is to hold the cotton . . . thus enabl[ing] persons to pick cotton who have weak backs" (lines 15-28).
Date: February 27, 1883
Creator: Reid, John Thomas
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Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for "an improved knee pad or cushion formed to properly fit and bend with the knee and to keep its proper shape while on the limb, and one that will be adapted for all persons engaged in occupations requiring a kneeling posting on the part of the operator." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1896
Creator: Laird, John E. B.
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Improvements in Steam Engine

Description: Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.
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Mechanical Telegraph-Sounder

Description: Patent for "a sounder wherein a finger-lever and sounding-lever are combined together with a spring" (lines 13-15) and is "adapted for the use of learners for practicing the manipulation of a telegraph finger-key" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Clopton, John B.
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