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Cotton-Seed Linter (open access)

Cotton-Seed Linter

Patent for an improvement "to prevent the accumulation of lint within the lint-chambers; to provide for the automatic discharge of the lint from the saw-teeth; to provide for a thorough agitation of the seed within the seed-reviews, and, finally, to provide for the delivery of the stripped seed from the machine" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: O'Brien, Edward J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pad for the Backs of Horses. (open access)

Pad for the Backs of Horses.

Patent for a new and improved pad for horses. This design consists in "the air-tight cushion composed of opposite blanks of elastic air-tight material secured along their adjacent edges, and a central longitudinally-disposed dividing strip dividing the cushion into opposite compartments, and provided with openings affording communication between the compartments" (lines 62-68).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Mudford, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texarkana Train Station]

Photograph of the train station in Texarkana. The train tracks can be seen in front of the buildings. Text below the image says "Texarkana, Texas c. 1890's" and "Southwest Collection."
Date: 1890~/1899~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History