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Buckle Connection.

Description: Patent for a new buckle connection design "which is peculiarly adaptable to harness" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Savage, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse

Description: Copy negative of a horse named Blue McQue at the American Quarter Horse Association. The horse is wearing a halter.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Soldiers with Dead Bandit

Description: Copy negative of two men looking at the dead body of a Mexican bandit. The man on the left side of the frame is on a saddled horse equipped with a shotgun. In the center of the frame is the dead body and a man standing over him. The man is holding the reins of his saddled horse. Written in the bottom left-hand corner is, "Dead Bandits being Identified at Columbus, N. M." and in the right is, "W. M. Horne Co. (Copyrighted) El Paso, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Soldiers with Dead Bandit

Description: Copy negative of two men looking at the dead body of a Mexican bandit. The man on the left side of the frame is on a saddled horse equipped with a shotgun. In the center of the frame is the dead body and a man standing over him. The man is holding the reins of his saddled horse. Written in the bottom left-hand corner is, "Dead Bandits being Identified at Columbus, N.M." and in the right is, "W.M. Horne Co. (Copyrighted) El Paso, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Back-Band Buckle.

Description: Patent for an improved back-band buckle and an improved hook that connects the buckle with the trace-chain. The lever-hook snaps "into position and is held secure in a pane substantially flush with the lower portion of the buckle-frame when the buckle is closed by the forcing down of the lever" (lines 15-19).
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Brown, John Staddart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Check Hook.

Description: Patent for a new and improved check-hook. This design is "composed of the U-shaped frame having a threaded stem projecting from its lower end, and having the lugs extending from its vertical branches, the spring, and the cross-bar pivoted at one end between the lugs, and having side depressions near its other end to receive the lugs, and having its end adapted to be engaged by the spring and provided with the thumb-piece or horse-head" (lines 90-100).
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: Matchette, James S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back-Band Buckle.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simple back-band buckle that doubles as a trace-carrier and locks the trace into place. It secures to the carriage and locks the trace into place with a snap-hook.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Ware, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buckle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design is for a double buckle, "of such a construction that secure fastenings may be obtained, and the two ends of a strap or the adjacent ends of different straps may be readily secured together in a reliable manner, thus admitting of the speedy manufacture of sets of harnesses" (lines 13-18). This eliminates the need for rivets or stitching the strap(s).
Date: September 19, 1882
Creator: Bills, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Harness.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for harnesses. This design "relates to attachments for harness; and it consists of a plate having a safety-hook, a back-band buckle, and guide-rings" (lines 20-23).
Date: August 30, 1881
Creator: Applewhite, David T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Checkrein-Holder.

Description: Patent for a checkrein-holder for harness-saddles that has a hook grooved on one side, a plate or wire inside the groove that attaches the hook to a smaller hook, a link that engages one end of the hook and as connected to a bell-crank lever, the bell crank lever that locks the link into the hook, and a screw bolt for the bell-crank lever.
Date: January 1, 1895
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle and Bit.

Description: Patent for improvements to Bridles and Bits, specifically what are known as stranglers, used to easily gain control over an animal by exerting pressure on its nose, operated by a slight pull on the auxiliary reins. This patent also provides for a device which activates the strangler when the driver releases it and the animal steps on it.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Hentschel, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bridle.

Description: Patent for "a bridle wherein means for controlling a horse is provided." (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Hentschel, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Man checking a horse's vitals]

Description: Photograph of a man who is checking the vitals of a Clydesdale. The man has salt and pepper hair and is wearing all white with glasses. He has one side of a stethoscope in his left ear and the other side is resting against his neck. He is holding the diaphragm of the stethoscope against the horse's side with his right hand and has his head turned away from the horse and in the direction of the camera. The horse is very tall and is wearing a large harness with two poles near its neck where reign… more
Date: 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Chain-Link.

Description: Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
Date: November 13, 1860
Creator: Kirk, John P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Buckle and Trace or Breeching Loop

Description: Patent for a "device whereby, in a harness, the back-band and belly-band may readily be connected to a trace-buckle, or a breeching-loop or 'trace-square'" (lines 10-13) without sewing the buckle into other harness pieces.
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Kay, William V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Back Band for Harness.

Description: Patent for a new and improved back-band for harnesses. This design "relates to back-bands for that class of harnesses wherein chains are used for traces; and [the] invention consists, principally, in providing the back-band at its ends with metal loops through which the traces pass to protect the leather of the back-band from wear. The invention also consists in connecting snap-hoops to the metal end-pieces by means of metal loops" (lines 7-15).
Date: January 18, 1887
Creator: Johnson, Ike
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Champion Hereford Bull, Open Show

Description: Photograph of a Champion Hereford Bull wearing a harness. Standing behind the bull, from left to right, is Leon Turner, Bob Beck, Lee Campbell, Kim Box wearing a tiara on her cowboy hat and holding a ribbon, and Topper Largent. Mr. Turner, Mr. Beck and Mr. Campbell wear suits and ties and the first two wear glasses. In the background is a backdrop that reads, "Fort Worth Fat Stock Show".
Date: 1969
Creator: Johnston, Johnny
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum
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