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[Suzanne Woods Fisher during Amish Presentation 3]

Description: Photograph of Suzanne Woods Fisher from the 47th Church and Synagogue Library Association conference, which was held at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Portland, Oregon. She is standing behind a podium with a microphone. Next to her an image of an Amish person plowing a field is being projected onto a screen. Her presentation is focused around the Amish people and their denomination.
Date: July 31, 2014
Creator: Stowers, Larry
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kelly Plow Company Truck]

Description: Photograph of a Kelly Plow Company truck in Longview, Texas. The company was founded in 1852 in Jefferson, Texas. G. A. Kelly later brought his company to Longview in 1882. Three employees are pictured standing next to the Kelly Plow Company truck, advertising and selling equipment.
Date: 1910~
Partner: Longview Public Library

Plow Attachment.

Description: Patent for the ability to attach one or more plows simply and inexpensively so users can customize their plowing methods as needed.
Date: February 10, 1914
Creator: Welch, Drew O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Postcard from The National Farm Loan Association of Bandera to Mr. Willie Agold, July 29, 1952]

Description: Postcard from Mr. W. R. Fletcher of The National Farm Loan Association of Bandera to Mr. Willie Agold, inviting him to come in and discuss a farm loan. The front of the postcard features a photograph a line of six mules pulling a plow through a field towards the camera. Behind the mules, a man sits on a seat on the plow.
Date: July 29, 1952
Creator: Fletcher, W. R.
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[Plowing the Hillside]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph of a young boy plowing a sloped hillside using a bull tongue plow pulled by a mule. The Joe Clark poem "A Letter from Home is attached to the mount. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 0016-11
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mule and Rider]

Description: Photograph of a lone rider mounted on a mule in an open field. The landscape behind the pair is empty, with a single plow on the ground behind the mule.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mugg, Kilo
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Shed on the side of a road]

Description: Photograph of a wooden shed on the side of a dirt road. The shed sits on the left side of the image with trees surrounding it and a grassy area in front. A plow sits to the right of the shed and an open field is in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oxen pull plow for Tarrant man]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Tarrant County farmer who uses oxen to plow his fields rather than a tractor.
Date: January 20, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary Ann and Charles B. Moore, May 24, 1888]

Description: This letter is from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Mary Ann Moore's mother, Matilda Dodd. A note at the top of the letter details that Birdie and Alice have been at Aunt Bettie's for a week and that the school has employed two teachers. She stresses that Birdie want to see Linnet very badly. In the letter, Matilda updates the Moore family on the happening in Gallatin and the news includes: a note on the letter that was sent to Abe and Bettie Franklin from the Moore family, fa… more
Date: May 24, 1888
Creator: Dodd, Matilda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lever Scraper for Cleaning Plows.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lever scraper for cleaning plows. This design "relates to improvements in plows, the object being to remove quickly and readily from the mold-board the earth which, in plowing stiff, waxy, or greasy soils, adheres thereto; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a scraper-blade and of the actuating mechanism therefor" (lines 9-15).
Date: November 8, 1887
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Landside for Plows.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plow landside. This design "consists in a landside for plows made with a slotted flange to rest upon the forward side of the plow-standard, and a flange to rest upon the bottom of the furrow, whereby the plow will be made stronger, more durable, and more effective, and will be made to run steadier . . . The object of this invention is to increase the strength and durability of plow-plates, and obtain the efficiency and steadiness of ordinary turn-plows without thei… more
Date: August 21, 1883
Creator: Wherry, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Landside Cutter for Plows.

Description: Patent for a new and improved landside cutter for plows. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a colter . . . and the landside attachment secured to the landside of the plow, the said landside attachment having the laterally-extending cutting-wing . . . the plate in front of the landside attachment, and the colter on the front edge of the said plate" (lines 66-75).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Reed, Benjamin B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weed-Cutting Attachment for Plows.

Description: Patent is for "weed cutting devices for plows, and has for its object to provide the shovel of a plow or cultivator with blades or knives, which are adapted to enter the soil a slight distance and cut down or uproot all weeds or grass and at the same time to smooth or pulverize the soil" (lines 12-18).
Date: August 26, 1902
Creator: Robinson, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel Cultivator or Sulky Plow.

Description: Patent for a wheeled cultivator that "may be attached to a wheeled supporting-frame in such a manner that the front end of the plow-beam may be raised and lowered, the construction also providing means for readily detaching the plow-beam from the frame" (lines 12-17) including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Harrison, Hubbert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Listing-Plow.

Description: Patent for a listing plow, "more particularly an improvement upon the structure disclosed in Patent No. 866,679, issued to [Gottfried Persson] on September 24, 1907" (lines 9-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1913
Creator: Persson, Gottfrid
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Single-Trees.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Wooden Single-Trees" (lines 3-4), "for plows and other similar drafts" (lines 15-16), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 18, 1877
Creator: Bass, Thomas Gibson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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