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Elevator

Description: Patent for an elevator which locks itself should the hoisting cable break. Illustrations included.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Ballard, Silas
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Draft-Equalizer.

Description: Patent for "devices for equalizing the draft where three or more draft-animals are used" (lines 8-10) to pull machinery, carriages, or wagons with illustrations included.
Date: September 16, 1902
Creator: Hayden, Jefferson B.
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Draft Appliance

Description: Patent for a draft appliance. This invention is designed for plows, movers, and other farm implements drawn by horses. Illustration included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
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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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Planter

Description: Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
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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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Fire-Escape.

Description: Patent for a new and useful fire escape, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Buck, Sterling P. & Meaker, Charles L.
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Electric-Light Hanger.

Description: Patent for an electric light hanger that attaches to the wall or ceiling and has a pulley system for moving it up and down.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Carter, James W.
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Heading-Machine.

Description: Patent for a Heading-Machine for maize, Kafir corn, and cane. It can pass through a field of these crops, cut off the heads, and pass them into a receptacle that is attached to the rear of the machine.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Grant, Wilburn C.
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School Exterior

Description: Copy negative of a picture of Abilene High School. The building has a very nice design with terraces on each side of the building shown in the picture. It is a two story building plus a basement. "High School, Abilene, Texas." is printed on the picture.
Date: unknown
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School Exterior

Description: Copy negative of the exterior of Abilene High School. The school building seems to be three stories high and its got trees out front, as well as a pole with the American flag.
Date: unknown
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Portrait of a Woman #1

Description: Copy negative of a portrait of Mallie Butler wearing a high collared dress and jewelry. She was an Abilene society belle. The photograph was taken by Kavanaugh in Abilene, Texas.
Date: unknown
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Portrait of a Woman #2

Description: Copy negative of a portrait of Mallie Butler wearing a high collared dress and jewelry. She was an Abilene society belle. The photograph was taken by Kavanaugh in Abilene, Texas.
Date: unknown
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Portrait of a Young Girl

Description: Copy negative of Hawn Evans as a child posing for a portrait. The text at the bottom of the image reads "McKee, Abilene, Tex." She is wearing a headpiece and a dress with a laced collar.
Date: unknown
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Portrait of Man; Portrait of Man

Description: 1 copy negative of 2 images. The first image is a card containing a portrait of Dr. Andrew Hefner in a suit and tie. The card mentions Dr. Hefner's office location at the Commercial Hotel in Abilene, Texas. The second image is a portrait of a seated Dr. Hefner, again wearing a suit and tie.
Date: unknown
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Map of Abilene

Description: Cadastral map of Abilene, Texas, showing street names, block numbers, lot numbers, land ownership, Texas & Pacific Railway line, buildings, and cemeteries. The map also includes an index to subdivisions in the upper-left corner. Scale [ca. 1:10,000] (300 varas to the inch).
Date: 192X
Creator: Kirby, A. H. & Thomas, J. A. (John A.), 1932-
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Etheridge's Oct. 1953 City Map Abilene, Texas

Description: Map of Abilene, Texas, showing highways, roads, and streets. The map also includes bodies of water, such as Lytle Lake and Cedar Creek. Includes the handwritten addition of McMurry University, located on Sayles Boulevard. The schools, parks, public buildings, and hospitals numbers correspond to a separate index.
Date: 1953
Creator: Etheridge, Kenneth A.
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City Map of Abilene, Texas

Description: Map of Abilene, Texas, showing highways, roads, railroads, and streets. The map also includes schools, parks, public buildings, hospitals, and bodies of water. Includes a points of interest table in the upper-left corner. The back of the map includes several pictures of important buildings and notes on the growth and farming of Abilene.
Date: 1930
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Apparatus for Killing Rodents

Description: Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Palmer, Austin D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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