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Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on … more

Date: November 5, 1901

Creator: Pluck, James

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton and Corn Chopper.

Patent for an "attachment to a cultivator to chop or thin corn, cotton, and other drilled plants at the same time it is being plowed and without interfering in the work of the cultivator" (lines 14-18).

Date: February 26, 1907

Creator: Graham, Daniel O.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).

Date: April 9, 1889

Creator: Cathey, Thomas Jefferson

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for an improvement in the construction and design of combined cotton and corn planters.

Date: August 28, 1888

Creator: Schofield, James Drommond

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn Husker and Sheller

Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines

Date: July 23, 1889

Creator: Whiting, Louis Rossell

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined cotton and corn planter

Patent for new and useful improvement Combined cotton and corn planter to provide at a slight cost a machine which will be simple in its construction

Date: September 22, 1885

Creator: Loafman, John E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter

Patent for improvements in the design and construction of combined cultivators and planters.

Date: July 5, 1887

Creator: Wright, Samuel Winfield

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton or Corn Planter

Patent for novel improvements in the construction or production of cotton or corn planters.

Date: October 8, 1889

Creator: Hardison, Dock C. W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter

Patent for "a planter that shall be self-covering and adjustable as to the transverse and longitudinal space between the hills and rows, and which at the same time may be regulated as to the amount of material fed at each throw of the seed-slide, and which will also mark off the adjacent row as the machine advances" (lines 10-16).

Date: August 23, 1887

Creator: Westhoff, Emil

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator for cotton and or corn.

Date: January 6, 1891

Creator: Neitsch, Fred T.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Corn Planter and Fertilizer Distributer.

Patent for a device that can be used both to plant corn and apply fertilizer to fields.

Date: February 19, 1884

Creator: Arnold, William Noah

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn Sheller.

Patent for a new and improved corn sheller. This design "comprises a double-shelling surface of peculiar construction in one plate or bed-piece, whereby a corn-sheller having but little weight is produced, which shall be capable of shelling either one ear of corn, or, by using both hands, two ears of corn at the same time, and which shall do its work with increased ease, ready clearance for the shelled corn, and protection, when using both hands, against their striking each other" (lines 12-21). more

Date: March 4, 1884

Creator: Matthews, Luther

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Rev. Mack Williams Doing a Demonstration]

Photograph of Rev. Mack Williams, with O'Connor Historical Group, at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is demonstrating how things were made on ranches during his childhood. Wearing a cowboy hat, black bow-tie and white shirt, he appears to be grating an ear of corn, seemingly to remove the kernels. A few pieces of chicken wire are laying on the table where he is working.

Date: [1989-08-03..1989-08-06]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Can of Green Giant Niblets]

Photograph of a can of Green Giant Niblets, golden corn.

Date: 1967

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Indian Artifacts

Photograph of Indian artifacts: a gourd filled with corn and two unfinished baskets, belonging to Mrs. Buddy Hewitt. This photo was included in a research paper by Nancy Edwards for an American History class at Marfa High School in April 1968.

Date: 1968

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library