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[Photograph of Texas store fronts]

Description: Mounted photograph of a men standing in front of three stores - the W.O. Wright General Merchandise store, J.M. Spoonts Drug Store, and Pioneer Grocery Store in Wichita Falls, Texas. Handwritten note on the back reads: "Wichita Falls, TX. James Monroe Spoonts. Wilburn Wright."
Date: [1880..]

[News Script: Military night]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Armed Forces Day celebrations in North Texas, honoring military personnel with parades, exhibits, and speeches against communism.
Date: May 22, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Happy birthday]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Nancy Voss, a young Wichita Falls girl suffering from cancer, receiving a birthday trip to her old hometown in Fort Worth as a gift from three radio stations. Voss visits old schoolmates and the Fort Worth Zoo before a birthday dinner at a resort hotel with her friends.
Date: July 19, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Happy birthday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Nancy Voss, a young Wichita Falls girl suffering from cancer, receiving a birthday trip to her old hometown in Fort Worth as a gift from three radio stations. Voss visits old schoolmates and the Fort Worth Zoo before a birthday dinner at a resort hotel with her friends.
Date: July 19, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Congress race]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gathering of congressional election candidates seeking the vote in Wichita Falls.
Date: September 6, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
captions transcript

[News Clip: Negro woman sits as county judge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Charlye Farris, the only female or black lawyer in the city of Wichita Falls, being appointed acting county judge. She was also the first black woman to be licensed to practice law in Texas.
Date: July 8, 1954
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Negro woman sits as county judge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charlye Farris, the only female or black lawyer in the city of Wichita Falls, being appointed acting county judge. She was also the first black woman to be licensed to practice law in Texas.
Date: July 8, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
captions transcript

[News Clip: Flood]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about residents of Wichita Falls being forced to evacuate their homes due rising floodwaters.
Date: October 4, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Flood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about residents of Wichita Falls being forced to evacuate their homes due rising floodwaters.
Date: October 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
captions transcript

[News Clip: Ft. Woth City Council ; No Negroes Enroll at Wichita Falls]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about the Fort Worth city council's decision regarding giving continued police protection to an African American family who moved into a home on an all-white street. Second is a story about the lack of enrollment of African American students in Wichita Fall's schools, despite the recent integration of the school system.
Date: September 5, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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