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Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001

Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, teacher and pianist from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Wilson talks about coming to Kerrville to teach at the "Kerrville Colored School," life for African-Americans in the area, the African-American community, and her personal life.

Date: January 16, 2001

Creator: Bacon, Dan; Bethel, Ann & Wilson, Itasco Sampson

Item Type: Text

Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-point, of the curved guides or fenders recessed at their rear ends and provided with cutting lower edges, said fenders being detachably connected to the plow-standard" (lines 63-67).

Date: March 16, 1886

Creator: Felder, John L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of walking planters. It is particularly adapted for sowing cotton-seed, but will also plant corn and distribute fertilizing material. The principle feature of the invention is the construction of the seed-discharging device arranged and rotating in the bottom of the seed-hopper. The construction of the latter and the frame of the machine likewise embody novel and important features" (lines 7-16).

Date: November 16, 1886

Creator: Flatau, Louis S.