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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 85, Ed. 2 Wednesday, October 29, 1947 (open access)

The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 85, Ed. 2 Wednesday, October 29, 1947

Daily newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 29, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 114, Ed. 2 Thursday, November 27, 1947 (open access)

The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 114, Ed. 2 Thursday, November 27, 1947

Daily newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 27, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 136, Ed. 2 Friday, December 24, 1948 (open access)

The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 136, Ed. 2 Friday, December 24, 1948

Daily newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 24, 1948
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Martin, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustration is included.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: McCaul, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aerial Photograph of Downtown Abilene, TX

An aerial photograph of downtown Abilene, Texas, taken by photographer Don Hutcheson.
Date: 1949
Creator: Hutcheson, Don
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History