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[Report from Texas State Department of Agriculture, June 19, 1924]

Copy of a report from the Texas State Department of Agriculture on acreage and the condition of cotton, corn, and other crops in the state. Envelope is included.

Date: June 19, 1924

Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculuture.

Item Type: Report

Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Jimmie Cooper, Miss Cotton

Full length portrait of Jimmie Cooper, "Miss Cotton." She is wearing a dress decorated with cotton and is holding a banner saying 2919 bales ginned.

Date: unknown

Creator: Marable, M.M. (Matthew M.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Denton Public Library

Photograph of a young girl, dog, and man standing in a cotton field with trees and houses visible in the background. The girl standing in the foreground in front of the field, wearing a light-colored dress with the dog on the left and the man, wearing suspenders and a hat, is standing behind her in the field. A text on the front of the photograph reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm Harlingen Tex. Cotton Planted Apr. 20. Photo July 25 '08. Producing 1 1/2 Bales Per Acre."

Date: July 25, 1908

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Man, Girl, and Dog on Farm]

Postcard of a man wearing suspenders and a straw hat standing in the middle of a cotton field with a young girl in a light-colored dress and a dog. The girl is standing in the foreground with the dog on the left and the man is behind her on the left. More fields and houses are visible in the distant background and a text on the front of the postcard reads "Lon C. Hills Irrigated Farm. Harlingen, Tex. Cotton Planted APr. 20. Photo. July 25, 08. Producing 15 Bales per acre."

Date: July 25, 1908

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Men in Cotton Field]

Photograph of seven unidentified men wearing light-colored shirts and hats standing in the middle of a cotton field. In the foreground on the right one man is facing towards the camera, as are the three men behind him. On the left two men are spaced farther apart, standing behind horses that are facing the other direction. Trees and telephone poles are visible in the background and a text on the front of the photograph reads "Lon Hill Irrigated Farm Harlingen Tex. Cotten planted May 4. Photo July 25 08. Producing 1 1/2 bales per acre."

Date: July 25, 1908

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Letter from Jack Whetstone to Truett Latimer, February 8, 1957]

Letter from Jack Whetstone to Texas State Representative Truett Latimer discussing the state's agriculture and requesting more funding for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

Date: February 8, 1957

Creator: Whetstone, Jack

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Truett Latimer to Jack Whetstone, March 12, 1957]

Letter from Texas State Representative Truett Latimer to Jack Whetstone discussing appropriations for cotton research at the University of Texas.

Date: March 12, 1957

Creator: Latimer, Truett

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Vacuum Cotton-Picking Machine.

Patent for vacuum cotton picking machine and improvements, such as it is more portable, a receiver for the cotton and discharge of the cotton, and an improved cotton picking nozzle.

Date: February 12, 1918

Creator: Chaney, Bailey E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Treating Cotton-Stalks

Patent for a low cost method of treating cotton-stalks to be used for similar purposes to hemp and other similar fibers.

Date: February 19, 1918

Creator: Jones, Levander D.; Deacon, Herbert D. & Marvin, Zebina E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll Breaker and Cleaner.

Patent for a device that attaches to a cotton gin that cleans and crushes the cotton bolls.

Date: February 19, 1918

Creator: Streun, John Arnold

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.

Date: June 11, 1918

Creator: Stubs, Orace Virgil

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Cotton Field]

Photograph of cotton fields in Deaf Smith County, TX.

Date: unknown

Creator: Bradly, Bill

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Deaf Smith County Library

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an adjustable cotton chopper which allows for the chopper to be set to different heights (vertically).

Date: January 8, 1918

Creator: Seamon, Albert H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper-Tool-Lifting Mechanism.

Patent for a "hand and footlifting mechanism capable of independent operation whereby either the hand or the foot operations may be performed, and the tools or hoes either lifted without disturbing their fixed adjustment or their elevation adjusted as desired," (lines 14-20) including illustrations.

Date: January 8, 1918

Creator: East, Arthur R.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for removing dead bolls, insects and other parasites from growing plants.

Date: February 26, 1918

Creator: Harper, William E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Bur Separator.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating burs from cotton lint despite severe weather conditions, illustrations included.

Date: August 20, 1918

Creator: Irwin, Samuel D.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wagon.

Patent for "a vehicle such as a wagon with means for automatically pulling cotton bolls." (lines 16-17)

Date: July 12, 1921

Creator: Jennings, William L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad.

Patent for Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad. "This invention relates to pads and particularly to a new, useful, simple and practical knee pad especially designed fo use by cotton pickers." (line 2)

Date: April 30, 1918

Creator: Boynton, Willie A. & Terrell, George A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. The mechanism is attached to a riding cultivator where plants are cut in advance of the cultivator blades.

Date: March 5, 1918

Creator: Jones, Martin A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process and Apparatus for Reducing Cotton-Stalks to Pulp Suitable for the Manufacture of Paper.

Patent for an invention that combines mechanical and chemical operations to effectively reduce cotton stalks to a fiber or pulp. Suitable for the manufacture of paper or for uses in which vegetable pulp may be used.

Date: December 11, 1917

Creator: Irwin, Jesse M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Patent for woll weevil destroyer that is an attachment that can be applied to the frame and beams of a cultivator and may knock weevil and insects from plants standing in a row.

Date: June 4, 1918

Creator: Young, Troy W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department