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[News Clip: Big squash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about Homer McClendon of Fort Worth who has a big squash that is three feet long and still growing.
Date: June 8, 1964
Duration: 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.760959 -97.291442
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cattle-Yoke.

Description: Patent for a cattle-yoke that is economical to make and easy to take on and off of the cow.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Dean, George J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse and Buggy

Description: Copy negative of an article in the Taylor County Yearbook promoting great farming conditions in the area and the opportunity of sharecropping. There is a picture in the middle of the page of a road with fields on each side and a man standing with a horse and buggy on the right.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Lake Shore

Description: Copy negative of an article in the Taylor County Yearbook with a picture of the shore of Lytle Lake in Abilene, Texas. The article is encouraging readers to buy land in Abilene.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Man with Sheep]

Description: Photograph of a man leading a herd of sheep in a field. The man carries a cane and smokes a pipe, and a sheepdog follows the group of sheep.
Date: September 1962
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: West Texas water]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 28, 1981, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cotton-Seed Linter

Description: Patent for an improvement "to prevent the accumulation of lint within the lint-chambers; to provide for the automatic discharge of the lint from the saw-teeth; to provide for a thorough agitation of the seed within the seed-reviews, and, finally, to provide for the delivery of the stripped seed from the machine" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: O'Brien, Edward J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for "a cotton-cultivator which will chop out the superfluous plants and at the same time work up the soil between the rows of plants, the implement being made to straddle the row and produce a fine tilth on both sides thereof" (lines 15-20).
Date: September 2, 1890
Creator: Smith, Thomas H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Corn-Planter.

Description: Patent for improvement of corn-planters, with illustrations. The purpose of this corn-planters patent was to improve existing corn-planters through, "peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (lines 9-12).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Koepke, William. Wm. Koepke.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for "a cheap and simple machine adapted to chop or hoe cotton and simultaneously plow or hill the same; furthermore, to adapt the chopper to form stands composed of any number of plants and at any distance apart, and, finally, to provide means for raising and lowering the plows out of and into operative position and throwing the chopping mechanism into and out of gear, which means are controlled in a convenient manner by the driver or operator" (lines 10-20).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Balshaw, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Cotton-Baling Apparatus

Description: Patent for a cotton baling machine in which "the condensing and bat-forming devices will condense and press the lint-cotton so close that the spring of the cotton is broken, thereby avoiding the necessity of providing additional compressing-rollers intermediate the condenser and the press-box. A further object of my invention is to arrange a condenser in such a manner as to save room in the gin-house and to provide means for carrying off the dust and air made by the gin and condenser to the ou… more
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Poke.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the oppo… more
Date: May 17, 1892
Creator: Stracener, Upton W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Farmers]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 9, 1980, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rain a blessing? Well, yes and no]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Lee Elsesser about the impact of recent rain and persistent drought on cotton and pecan crops and cattle. This story is referenced by the script, "Dry," which has not yet been digitized.
Date: September 6, 1967
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Gas well]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 19, 1980, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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