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[Postcard of Farmers Union Warehouse]

Description: Postcard of a man standing between stacks of cotton bales in a large barn, with the caption, "Rogers Tex. Farmers Union Warehouse." A handwritten note on the back of the postcard is addressed to Miss Annie Wiggers in Temple, Texas and says, "Hello. How are you this eve? I am down in the bottom cutting wood now. Got 8 more boys with me. We are having a good old time. Well how was preaching Sunday? Mattie & Leo. Kreuger were at our house Sunday. All went to Knob Creek to prayer meeting Sunday nig… more
Date: January 24, 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

"Picking Cotton", Marshall, Texas

Description: Color tinted halftone postcard showing people picking cotton in a field near Marshall, Texas. A basket full of cotton is in the foreground, and behind it two Black workers stand next to another full basket with a white man holding a note pad standing next to them. Behind them to the right is a wagon onto which cotton is being loaded. Many other people are in the field picking. A woman wearing a large sunbonnet and and a child are in the foreground on the left, putting cotton into a sack. In the… more
Date: [1907..1915]
Creator: Elgin, Mrs. Tom
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Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Men in a Cotton Field]

Description: Postcard of a cotton field near Galveston, Texas. There are four African-American men harvesting cotton. There is a horse and buggy with male driver in background, and trees in distance.
Date: April 1, 1907
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Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Cotton Hauled by Mules in Oakville

Description: Photograph of James and Lee Crawford Brother's Freight Co. located in Oakville, Texas. In the foreground, loads of cotton are piled onto mule-drawn wagons. F. H. Church stands in front of the mules in the foreground. Three wagons are visible in front of wooden building. The driver of the first wagon is James Crawford. The photograph was taken at or near where Monroe Fink's office is now. If cotton was hauled to the coast for shipment, it came through Beeville.
Date: 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Knee-Pad

Description: Patent for a knee pad, designed mainly for those who work in cotton fields. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Chambers, William Roleigh; Chambers, Solomon Roe & Chambers, Wade Hampton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter for cutting dead stalks left over from the last crop that has an improved rotary cutter and lifting mechanism.
Date: October 22, 1907
Creator: Klock, George Wade
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter for corn and cotton, which bends the stalks down and cuts them in that position and is capable of cutting two rows at once.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Lancaster, Benjamin C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter for corn, cotton, or other related crops that is drawn between two rows of stalks and cuts them faster and more fully than previous stalk cutters.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Chapa, Francisco Pena
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Puller.

Description: Patent for a stalk puller that is adaptable to different size stalks, better built, and more efficient than previous stalk pullers.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Richardson, Columbus John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk Puller

Description: Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Smith, Cullen Rogers
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Extracting Cotton-Seed Oil.

Description: Patent for the process of extracting cotton-seed oil from cotton-seed meal with a hydrocarbon such as kerosene and making the hydrocarbon reusable in the process by producing a cotton-seed oil soap through adding caustic soda to the mixture of cotton seed meal and hydrocarbon.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Bird, Maurice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planting Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a hopper that attaches to a planter that allows different types and sizes of seed to be dropped from it. Especially targeted toward corn and cotton seed.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Hodge, Neely B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harrow

Description: Patent for a harrow designed to cultivate only one row of crops at a time. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Arnold, Jesse E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter for planting cotton seed, which can be used with a walking or wheeled planter and automatically drops seeds when moving forward but not backward, and which can have the mechanism turned off while in transit.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Vaughn, George Washington
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fumigator.

Description: Patent for a fumigator for spraying boll weevil insecticide on cotton, which generates the insecticide gas, sprays it while moving across the field, and keeps the gas in close proximity to the plants for a short time for thorough treatment.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Fuller, Menzo Reed
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker.

Description: Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Adkins, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Agricultural Machine

Description: Patent for a cotton chopping machine which can cut plants at regular intervals.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Lax, Alfred A.; Hinson, George W. & Willhoit, James I.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Thinner

Description: Patent for a cotton thinner. This invention is designed to thin rows of cotton and corn. Illustration included.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Bolin, Nathan C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Harvester

Description: Patent for a cotton harvester. The invention is designed to pick cotton, automatically depositing the bolls in the gin, separates the seeds, and discharges the lint. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Williams, Edward M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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