Cotton Picking Needle (open access)

Cotton Picking Needle

Patent for a cotton picking needle that relates to machines for picking cotton. More particularly to a novel form of picking needle especially designed for use in connection with a picking machine of that type shown for example.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Billie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Washing Machine (open access)

Clothes Washing Machine

Patent for improvements to a washing machine.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Perry, Robert J. S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker (open access)

Cotton Picker

Patent for machines that utilizes a plethora of needles to harvest cotton.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Billie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gatesville Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Temple Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1917
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History