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[News Script: West Texas drought]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about associated press which has surveyed the drought in West Texas.
Date: July 24, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[J. C. Russell's Farm]

Description: Postcard of John Todd Willis (2nd from left) and three other men standing in a corn field among the ears of corn with an empty field in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "J. C. Russell's Farm Abilene Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Humor Postcard, Potato; Humor Postcard, Corn

Description: Copy negative of two humor postcards advertising for Bradshaw, Texas. In the top postcard two oversize potatoes are carried on a train. In the bottom postcard an oversize cob of corn is carried on a train. The text on both cards reads, "The Kind We Raise in Bradshaw, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Maize, Kafir-Corn, And Cane Heading Machine.

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of maize, Kafir corn, and cane heading machines that allows "a single machine to harvest two rows at the same time" (lines 12-14), reducing labor time and costs, including illustrations and a description.
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Cozart, Walace Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heading-Machine.

Description: Patent for a Heading-Machine for maize, Kafir corn, and cane. It can pass through a field of these crops, cut off the heads, and pass them into a receptacle that is attached to the rear of the machine.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Grant, Wilburn C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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