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Calf-Weaner.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive calf-weaner muzzle, that can also be used for colts, and is an "attachment for securing a barbed frame to a halter, whereby the frame is maintained in the operative position without interfering with the adjustment of the members of the halter to suit the size of the head of the animal" (lines 10-15).
Date: October 29, 1895
Creator: Sone, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Checkrein-Holder.

Description: Patent for a checkrein-holder for harness-saddles that has a hook grooved on one side, a plate or wire inside the groove that attaches the hook to a smaller hook, a link that engages one end of the hook and as connected to a bell-crank lever, the bell crank lever that locks the link into the hook, and a screw bolt for the bell-crank lever.
Date: January 1, 1895
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back-Pad.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple concave back-pad meant to be used between the horse and the saddle. The design of the invention makes saddles stay in place.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Powell, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Buildings and People in Port Arthur]

Description: Two photographs taken in Port Arthur, Texas. The top photograph shows the exterior of the old Sabine Hotel. A horse-drawn carriage is stopped in front of the porch, where a group of people stand. In the bottom photo, a large group of men and boys in swimming outfits sit and stand on the grass.
Date: 1895
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

Mrs. T.C. Bunch, Mayfest, Ft. Worth, Texas in 1895

Description: Photograph of Mrs. T.C. Bunch standing in front of a white horse attached to a decorated carriage. She is wearing white dresses with puffy sleeves, a sash, holding a fan and has a bow in her hair. She is looking at an elderly man who is holding the reins of the horse in one hand and a cowboy hat in the other. Behind the horse and buggy are stairs leading to an open room with streamers in the windows. Across the top of the door are the words, "Mayfest '95".
Date: 1895
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Town Along T&P Rail Line]

Description: Photograph of a town visible from a T&P rail line. There are people and carriages visible down the road, as well as two horses in the foreground. Written beneath the image are "Scenes along the T&P 1895-1896" and "T&P."
Date: 1895/1896
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Abilene Public School]

Description: Photograph of Abilene Public School. There is a fence in the foreground and people are visible around the building. There is a horse to the left of the image. Below the image are written "Scenes Along the T&P 1895-1896" and "T&P."
Date: 1895/1896
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Travis Street in Sherman, Texas]

Description: Copy photo of the view of Travis Street from T&P Rail Lines in Sherman, Texas. There are people on the side of the street and two men riding horses in the street. There is a trolley in the street as well. Written on the bottom of the photo is "[sic] Res. E Business Part of Travis St. Sherman." Below the image are written "Scenes along the T&P 1895-1896" and "T&P."
Date: 1895/1896
Partner: The Grace Museum

Muzzle.

Description: Patent for a muzzle for horses that can be easily applied. It prevents the animal from eating while its head is upright, and opens while the horse lowers its head to graze. This prevents the horse from damaging orchards.
Date: February 5, 1895
Creator: Lipscomb, Cicero D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Girth-Rigging for Side-Saddles.

Description: Patent for girth-rigging for side-saddles that secure the saddles so the saddles only move when the horse does. It has an extended "saddle-tree so as to produce shoulders, the same underlying the saddle-seat at its front and in supporting upon its shoulders and also upon the tree in rear of the cantle-girth suspension-straps that are continuous" (lines 24-29).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame-Fastener.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive hame-fastener that has "two adjustable parts, one of which is provided with hooks to be engaged by means on the other part" (lines 11-13). The invention is adjustable and does not unlock or disengage accidentally but can easily be unlocked on purpose.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame.

Description: Patent for a harness-hame and "contemplates the provision of improved means forming a part of the hames for securing the trace-chains thereto; also the provision of an improved trace-link adapted for connection with said securing means in a manner to insure maximum strength" (lines 15-21).
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for a riding-saddle with a "short rigid tree, which constitutes the front or forked portion of the saddle, and [the inventor] construct[s] the body and cantle of pieces of thick but duly flexible leather" (lines 21-25). This makes the saddle more comfortable for both horse and rider.
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horseshoe.

Description: Patent for a durable and secure horseshoe that doesn't let "the heel of the hoof from contracting, thus overcoming the serious defect in other common types of shoes of permitting the horse to have a "narrow heel," as it is called, and to prevent slipping of the shoe on the icy surfaces" (lines 16-21).
Date: September 10, 1895
Creator: Custer, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Pad Hook.

Description: Patent for a harness-pad hook meant to attach the pad to the harness for gig-saddles. The hook "will be capable of adjustment to suit the size of the gig-saddle with which it is used, to the end that the hooks may be manufactured after all the same pattern" (lines 14-18). The hook won't damage the gig-saddle and the hook has finger-grasps.
Date: September 10, 1895
Creator: Sone, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harness-Saddle.

Description: Patent for an adjustable harness-saddle that has self-adjusting trees and doesn't pinch or injure the horse.
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Varga, Lionel J. & Varga, Howard A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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