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[Young Mule Skinner Operating Hay Baler]

Description: Photograph of a young mule skinner operating a hay baler at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The young boy is holding on to a mule; hay covers the ground. Some of the young participants are sitting on bales of hay.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Creator: Smith, Jim
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Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cotton Baling Inside Mill]

Description: Two near-identical images of a cotton baling press in use at a mill. A bale is at the front and a man is standing just behind it at left, near the machinery. There is a blur where the man moved during the exposure. Descriptive text printed below the images in the lower-right corner: "7722- Baling Cotton--a powerful press just releasing a 500-lb. bale--at a mill in Texas." The same text is printed on the back in six languages
Date: 1905
Creator: Sun Sculpture Works and Studios
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Draft-Equalizer

Description: Patent for a device that can be attached to the draft tongue of an animal-drawn agricultural machine to equalize resistance and allow it to be drawn evenly in a straight line.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Butts, Jim P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Fun with Dad]

Description: Photograph of siblings Cassie (left), Tyson, and Toni Marie (right) standing on the lifted forks of a farm forklift in their backyard, driven by their father Tony LaRue (visible at right). The wall of the yard is visible in the center of the image.
Date: 1994?
Creator: Jones, Christine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Community College

Henry William Coit and family, Renner, Texas

Description: Photograph of 9 people standing on a steam tractor or attached gang plow. 2 women, three children, 4 men. The woman standing farthest right is veiled. The rear of the tractor is visible, in a partially plowed field. 2 women, 2 man, and 1 child (girl) are holding levers used to raise and lower the plows.
Date: 1900/1910
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Partner: Richardson Public Library

Early tournapull Box 3, Museum,B

Description: Photograph of a Model C Tournapull, likely from the 1940s based on similar images found online and "LeTourneau Heavy Equipment" by Eric C. Orlemann. According to him, the Model C was the most popular of the scrapers built by the company.
Date: Date unknown. Likely in the 1940s.
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

First Self-Propelled Scraper J5G

Description: Photograph of the first self-propelled earth scraper, built by R.G. LeTourneau in 1923. According to Eric C. Orlemann, who published several books about the company's earthmoving equipment, the machine used "an all-electric drive design, powered by a front-mounted gasoline engine and dynamo. " It was capable of carrying a 12-cubic-yard payload.
Date: 1923
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

An R. G. LeTourneau, Inc. employee demonstrates the Tournatow by driving up sidewalk steps J5G

Description: Photograph of an employee of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc., at the controls of the Tournatow, the first vehicle to feature electric-traction motors mounted in the wheel assemblies themselves. The four-wheel-drive and -steer tractor is being demonstrated at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, on 1950-11-17.
Date: November 17, 1950
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

R. G. LeTourneau demonstrating the Tournatow to Carl Estes

Description: Photograph of R.G. LeTourneau demonstrating the Tournatow to Longview (Texas) newspaper publisher Carl Estes. It was the first vehicle to feature electric-traction motors mounted in the wheel assemblies themselves. The four-wheel-drive and -steer tractor was being demonstrated at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, on 1950-11-17.
Date: Unknown.
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

Tree Roller J5G, Photo 5, L-5954

Description: Photograph of a tree roller that was 20 feet wide and weighed 150 tons, being used in the jungles of the Amazon in Peru, where the LeTourneau Foundation created a mission town called Tournavista.
Date: 1950s
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

Model D Tournapull with Model Q Carryall

Description: Photograph of a Model-D Tournapull attached to the Carryall Model Q. According to information found online (https://contract295dev.wpenginepowered.com/classic-machines/model-d-tournapull/), the company built this combination, an "air transportable earthmover," for the U.S. Army from 1942-1946, during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, LeTourneau built over 600 of these machines and continued production after the war. This photograph was clearly meant for a brochure or catalog, since the backgroun… more
Date: 1942/1946
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

Landing Craft Retriever Archive LT20

Description: Photograph of the Series MA-31 Landing Craft Retriever, essentially a large mobile gantry crane structure, mounted on electric-drive wheels with 120-inch diameter tires. Built in November 1954 for the US Army, it was designed to retrieve beached or capsized amphibious landing craft. Only one LCR was tested by the military. (Eric C. Orlemann, LeTourneau Earthmovers)
Date: 1954
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library

Tree Roller, Peru P0U,P-10-34, L 595

Description: Photograph of a group of unidentified men standing in front of a LeTourneau tree roller in Tournavista, Peru. The R.G. LeTourneau Foundation built this city on the headwaters of the Amazon River by clearing 990,000 acres it had been granted by the Peruvian government in exchange for building 31 miles of road through the Amazon rainforest.
Date: September 13, 1954
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library
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