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[Leasing Contract for Stephens County Property]

Description: Contract between Mary E. Sayles and J. W. Dooley in which Sayles agrees to lease 177 acres of land in Stephens county at certain rates and under certain conditions to Mr. Dooley. Title at the top of the document reads, "(Copy.) This Lease in Duplicate. (This the duplicate.)"
Date: August 10, 1897
Creator: Sayles, Mary E.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Rabbit Hunt in Gunsight, Texas]

Description: Copy slide of a photograph of mostly men wearing lined up to begin a rabbit hunt. Some of the men are seated on the ground and others are standing holding leaves. There is text below the photograph reading "Club 2243 Scalps May 27, 1897".
Date: May 22, 1897
Partner: McMurry University Library

Texas Live Stock Agency

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration and stylized business name with text reading: "We Refer, By Permission, To Merchants and Farmers National Bank, Weatherford Texas. First National Bank, Cisco, Texas. City National Bank, Corsicana, Texas. Texas Loan Agency, Corsicana, Texas. Stock Traders Bank, Strawn, Texas. Ward & Black, Bankers, Breckenridge, Texas. Burton, Lingo & Co., Fort Worth, Texas"; "Cattle Bought and Sold … more
Date: 1896
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Shaft-Support.

Description: Patent for improvements in harnesses through the accommodation of "varying positions of the animal with respect to the shafts or thills, so as to remove all strain from and upon the shafts and the saddle, while at the same time effectively supporting the shafts and preventing the slipping of the same up and down upon the sides of the animal."
Date: October 26, 1897
Creator: Coleman, Thomas Gardner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by using a crown-wheel attached to one of the ground-wheels of the chopper. When the ground wheels impart motion to the crown wheel, which in turn communicates motion to the pinions of the shaft. This shaft drives the two sprocket-wheels; the sprocket wheel that located in the rear portions of the crank-shaft imparts motion to the crank-shaft, which drives the vertical choppers. Illustration is included.
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Baggett, Neil Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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