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Device for Controlling Runaway Horses.

Description: Patent for a new and improved device for controlling runaway horses. This design has for its object "to construct an apparatus whereby such a pressure may be applied by the rider or driver of the animal in connection with which the apparatus is employed, the invention consisting of pads that are supported by lever-arms pivotally connected to a bit, and of a means whereby said pads may be moved toward each other—that is, to a position so that they will bear upon the outer nostril-wall . . . [sin… more
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: Grumbach, Isaïe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle. This design "consists in a novel manner of constructing driving-bridles, whereby a leverage upon the bit and curb proportionate to the needs of any particular occasion may be drawn up so that it will be impossible to hold the bit out of control of the driver" (lines 7-14).
Date: August 19, 1884
Creator: Roeber, Alexander
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Bridle Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle attachment. This design "consists of a contrivance of nose-clamping strap having end rings through which pass the ends of a chin-strap connected by reign-straps passing through rings of a head-strap of the attachment . . . the invention comprising also a connection of the martingale-straps with the rings of the nose-clamping straps . . . to powerfully check up the horse when required, and also to prevent rearing and plunging" (lines 9-20).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Massey, John T.
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Men on Horseback on a Bridge

Description: Photograph of eight men on a bridge, five on horseback. Frank Brawley is on the far right. The bridge existed from 1860-1900s. It connected parts of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in the town of Roberts.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

Men on Horseback

Description: Group of eleven unidentified men on horseback in front of store with Moline Wagons and John Deere sign. Also sign of Bosque Valley Bank on window of store next to Moline Wagons.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Bosque County Historical Commission

[Parade in Houston]

Description: Photograph of a parade in Houston. Six mules pull a covered wagon belonging to E.W. Brown of Orange, Texas. Men on horseback and other wagons follow behind. Many spectators watch from the curbs.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Tack Room at Pinehurst Stables]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the tack room at Pinehurst Stables in Orange, Texas. Around the top of the room are numerous ribbons mounted in glass cases. Bridles and other tack are displayed on the walls and on a table.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hickey Studio
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Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Charley Bishop on horseback]

Description: In the photograph, Charley Bishop is dressed casually, sitting astride a horse, holding the reins. The horse is a dark color with a white stripe down the middle of its face. Behind them, there is a wooden fence in front of a partial wooden stucture as well as some faint, distance mountains.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of Gus Bogel on Horseback]

Description: In this photograph, a young man (dressed in a light-colored shirt and chaps and wearing a cowboy hat) is sitting astride a horse. The horse is dark but has a white stripe down the middle of its face and three very short white socks. There is a coiled rope attatched to the saddle. They appear to be standing in a corral or yard of bare dirt. In the background, there is a wooden fence and a wooden structure with pegs and various items hanging on the side. There is also a sawhorse and several … more
Date: 1916
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Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Wendell Tarver on Horseback]

Description: Photograph of Wendell Tarver on horseback in the middle of a dirt street, taken from his right side. He is wearing a long-sleeved button-up shirt and jeans with a cowboy hat, and there is a coiled lasso hanging from the saddle. Buildings are visible on either side of the street in the background, including a second-story balcony on the right side of the image and a low-hanging thatch roof on the right side of the image.
Date: [1945..1970]
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Partner: Private Collection of the Tarver Family

[Faye Plummer on Horse]

Description: Photograph of Faye Plummer sitting on a dark colored horse next to another horse. In the background there are three buildings and a utility pole. On the back of the photograph written in handwriting is "Faye".
Date: unknown
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Partner: Birdville Historical Society
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