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[Frio County Peanut Growers Association Booth]

Description: Photograph of two women at the Frio County Peanut Growers Association booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman on the right is holding up a piece of peanut brittle and other people are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ruth Higdon at the Frio County Peanut Growers Association Booth]

Description: Photograph of Ruth Higdon at the Frio County Peanut Growers Association booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is holding a bowl of peanut butter and is wearing an apron that reads "Man doesn't live by bread alone, He also needs peanut butter."
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pickling and Preserving Booth]

Description: Photograph of a woman and a man at the pickling and preserving booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The man is holding a spoon up to his mouth and there are samples on plates on the table. Other people are visible behind them.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pickling and Preserving Booth]

Description: Photograph of two women at the pickling and preserving booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jars of pickles and preserves are sitting on the table between the two women. Other visitors are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bank Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Employees and customers at the First State Bank at Livingston, Texas were sure that they were witnessing a bank robbery.
Date: August 31, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Peas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an old Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year Day which is supposed to bring good luck throughout the new year.
Date: December 31, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Interior Bracing For Silos

Description: The invention relates to silos and the removable devices that prevent the silos from collapsing when empty. The object is to provide wooden stave silos with certain adjustable and economical braces which are easily and quickly applied. It will be highly efficient in preventing the blowing down or collapsing of silos when empty. They would also be able to be easily and quickly removed when the silos are being filled.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Galbraith, Henry William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling Press.

Description: Patent for an invention composed of various tools used to compress bail hay and/or other similar materials. Nature and scope of invention are explained and illustrations are included.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Preston, Cyrus
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Description: Patent for an ice cream freezer that consists of a can with a joint bearing in the middle, a cover with openings in the center and a central vertical flange, a lid that fits over the central vertical flange, and a shaft with horizontal arms that rotates.
Date: July 31, 1894
Creator: Wallace, Lloyd & Wallace, Jeff Davis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Receptacle-Lid Lifter

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in means for automatically opening the closure of a receptacle upon the approach of a person thereto" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Bianchi, Manlio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Reissued patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton press: "The invention consists in operating the nut of a follower-screw by means of a drive-pinion, whose own shaft is actuated alternately in opposite directions, by a friction-wheel" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Poultry-Coop.

Description: Patent for coop for poultry and similar animals that can be kept in a sanitary condition. The coop has a removable container that holds the refuse and can contain disinfectant. This container sits below the mesh floor of the coop.
Date: August 31, 1913
Creator: Clippinger, Levi
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coffee-Roaster.

Description: Patent for a coffee roaster, including illustrations. The purpose of the coffee maker "is to provide an improved apparatus by which green coffee may be evenly, quickly, and economically parched or roasted to the desired degree without burning" (lines 8-12).
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Dunn, William Washington
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Packer.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-packer. This design consists "[i]n a press, the combination of a press-operating shaft having a wheel upon its outer end provided with parallel concentric flanges upon its face, a shaft having connection to the driving-power, and having a friction-pulley upon its inner end" (lines 99-104). It further consists in "a bearing for the inner end of the shaft having two longitudinal slots sliding upon bolts, a lever having its end pivoted to the sliding bearing fo… more
Date: August 31, 1886
Creator: Dulany, John Thornton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Capping-Machine

Description: Patent for a capping machine. The object is to provide a machine of the character specified, designed for placing friction caps or covers of cans containing canned materials and for sealing the covers or caps in place on the cans, and arranged to be capable of use with cans of varying size.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Peppers, Jerry Coatts
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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