731 Matching Results

Search Results

[Plow team]

Description: Photograph of a boy riding on a makeshift platform that is being dragged by two horses. The horses pull the buy through a dirt field.
Date: 195X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Plow horse]

Description: Photograph of a young man using a horse drawn plow. The field is on a hillside and mountains are visible in the background of the photograph.
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Plowing equipment in a field]

Description: Photograph of a piece of plowing equipment sitting in a field. The plow sits in the foreground of the photograph out of focus, with the fields in the background in focus. There is an object that appears to be a sickle stemming off camera from the top part of the photograph.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Snow / Midland]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: December 8, 1988, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 53 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton and corn planter that does not put as much pressure on the tongue of the machine as previous models and that allows the plow attachment to be lifted higher off the ground to avoid obstacles.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Goodnight, Frank H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weempe, Charles M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment For Plows

Description: Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wilke, Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Checker and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton checkers and cultivators by “providing a device in which the width of the hills or rows may be adjusted to suit the requirements of various grades of soil.” (Lines 15-17) Another improvement is to provide a “means to which the plows of the cultivator may be simultaneously raised or lowered, and when so raised or lowered may be kept in their adjusted positions.” (Lines 19-22) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cultivator and Planter.

Description: Patent for a new part that attaches to an ordinary cultivator. The device has a plow that runs in front, and a planting mechanism that spreads seeds in the plowed rows. This device makes it possible to plough and plant in one sweep of the field.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Noren, Peter O. & Clyburn, Mile D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter

Description: Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coupling for Connecting Plows Tandem.

Description: Patent for a coupling for holdings plows together that allows for the plows to be close together, easily turned, and lets each plow perform its full function uninhibited by the other plows.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Brooks, John L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters

Description: Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Agee, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen