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[Photograph of Remains of Hardware Store]

Description: Photograph of a heavily damaged hardware store after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. Brick walls have been demolished by the storm. Inscribed on the back of the photo, "What is left of a hardware and implement store on Water Street." and "E.H. Caldwell Hdw. and Impl. The family company is still in business on Agnes Street - 1983 Bob Clark." Also a note, "Cotton bales are some of hundreds that washed in from the compress on Municipal Wharf - on waves they battered the downtown. C.L. Baskin" more
Date: 1919
Creator: Shirkey, Marie
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Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

Cotton-Picker.

Description: Patent for a high-yield cotton picker that removes cotton from the bolls without damaging the plants.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Johnson, Frank Edward
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Seed Linter

Description: Patent for a new Cotton-Seed Linter (relates to a new and useful form of cotton seed linter) which operates efficiently in and about oil mills or other places where cotton seed is reduced to commercial products.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Voorhies, Felix E.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-chopper. This invention outfits the cotton-chopper with a blade that can be moved, either mechanically or with electric power. Previously, the blade was fixed and stationary.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Janes, Henry T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Sack Hanger.

Description: Patent for a hanger designed to easily attach and detach from a cotton sack without damaging the sack or the hands of a cotton picker. It is designed to be made of a single piece of material and may be used to hang the sack on a scale for weighing the contents.
Date: July 22, 1919
Creator: Hamrick, Walter
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Cotton gin in Wellington]

Description: Photograph of a cotton yard at the Wellington Cotton Gin. There are numerous bales of cotton in a field, and five men are pictured standing and sitting on top of them. The men are all wearing hats and facing towards the camera, and one man on the far right side of the photograph is smiling and pointing. There are houses in the distant background. An accompanying note states that Lonzo Cartwright was the cotton gin manager.
Date: 1919~
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Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

Boll-Cotton Separator and Cleaner

Description: Patent for a new boll-cotton separator and cleaner used for separating and cleaning boll, catch the cotton delivered to the separating chamber, remove cotton from catching means, etc.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Simmons, Oliver G.
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Cotton Seed Linting Machine.

Description: Patent for Improvements of the Cotton-Seed-Linting Machine. This improvement will allow for better stripping and cleaning of cotton lint.
Date: February 20, 1919
Creator: Voorhees, Flex E.
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Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a knee pad to be used by berry or cotton pickers, or other workers that are often in a kneeling position. The knee pad consists of a frame made of "one piece of spring wire of rather coarse gage, a roller revolubly attached to the front end of the frame, and cloth or canvas stretched across the frame" (lines 23-27). The cloth is easy to remove and replace.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Holsey, Walter R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plant-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Martin, Silas W.
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Feeding Apparatus for Baling-Presses

Description: Patent for improvements to the devices that feed cotton into baling presses. The main intentions of the improvements are to ensure that cotton is fed to the press at regular intervals, and to provide a "feed paddle" which is operational when the press ram is raised.
Date: 1919
Creator: Cameron, Theodore R.
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Elevating-Truck.

Description: Patent for new improvements for a portable elevating truck, used for handling and storing heavy material to stack on each other. (referred to as "decking") using an endless chain on an incline.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Anderson, John L.
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Patch for Cotton Bales.

Description: Patent for a patch for cotton bales. The invention provides a solution for the need to cut a slit in a cotton bale to see to the cotton's quality. This cotton bale patch serves as a way to fasten these slits in production to prevent loss or theft of the cotton product.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: Louis, Rube B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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