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Potato-Digger.

Patent for a potato digger, which leaves the potatoes on top of the soil and can be used in a variety of different soil types.

Date: October 19, 1909

Creator: Herring, Jesie M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato-Cutter.

Patent for a potato cutter, which cuts potatoes into uniform slices for planting.

Date: November 23, 1909

Creator: Wise, James A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato-Digging Machine.

Patent for a potato digging machine, which harvests the potatoes and puts them into bags.

Date: March 5, 1912

Creator: McIlveene, Mineola & Hayes, Lewis A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato-Cutter.

Patent for a potato cutter for dividing seed potatoes into sections for planting.

Date: February 25, 1908

Creator: Wheeler, Melley M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Potato Digger.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in potato-diggers, designed to cut away the vines and to throw them out of the way of the plow-points." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 22, 1900

Creator: Winfrey, Zachary T.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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[News Clip: Potato puzzles Prosper planter]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a mysterious potato crop that bore tomato-like fruit on the stems.

Date: June 10, 1954

Duration: 53 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait of Potato Farmers]

Postcard of potato farmers in Fort Bend County. There is a man on a mule-drawn wagon in foreground. Photograph may be of prison farm laborers working in the field.

Date: 1909

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[News Script: Higher farming prices]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Date: March 10, 1970, 10:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Farmers want higher prices]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Date: 1970-03-09T24:00:00

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Farmers burning potatoes]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Date: 1970-03-12T24:00:00

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, July 1, 1944]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on July 1, 1944. He says that many people think the war will be over in the fall, and that it's getting hotter in Italy, although it's cool during the evening. He works from 4:30 AM to 2:30 PM. He also mentions that the potato crop was plentiful, and he and his friend Harmon Gilbreath have been frying lots of potatoes.

Date: July 1, 1944

Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Potato Curing Apparatus.

Patent for a potato-curing apparatus that includes container that allows air to circulate around inside of it.

Date: May 8, 1917

Creator: Wells, James B.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Potato and Storm Cellar Ruins]

Photograph of ruins of a potato and storm cellar near Denton, Texas. The cellar is made of wood and there is miscellaneous foliage growing throughout the surrounding area.

Date: 1981

Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Potato Cellar Ruins]

Photograph of potato cellar ruins on Alma Neffendorf's farm. The entrance to the cellar is made of stone and miscellaneous foliage is growing throughout the surrounding area.

Date: 1961

Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Texas Lutheran University

Potato Screening and Sorting Machine.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Potato Screening and Sorting Machines" (lines 6-8). "This invention relates to potato screening and sorting machines, and has for one of its objects the provision of a machine of this character, which is simple in construction, efficient in operation, and which can be manufactured at a nominal cost" (lines 13-18).

Date: November 23, 1915

Creator: Harris, Thomas Sanders & Morgan, Joseph Penell

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut-Harvester.

Patent for a new, mobile harvesting machine designed to uproot, clean, and pile agricultural products that grow underground, including illustrations.

Date: April 30, 1918

Creator: Green, Zedekiah W., Sr. & Green, Zedekiah W., Jr.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sweet Potato Curing House

Patent for useful improvements in sweet potato curing houses. The designs provides for a heated and ventilated structure to prevent the rotting of the sweet potatos.

Date: January 6, 1920

Creator: Woods, Edgar Miles.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department