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[The Abilene Orchestra]

Description: Photograph of the Abilene, Texas orchestra in the 1920s and they are seated behind music stands with instruments in hand. The men in the photograph are wearing suits and the lady is wearing a dark-colored dress seated by a piano.
Date: 1920~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McMurry University Library

[Dreibroat Dance Band]

Description: Photograph (copy) of the Dreibroat Dance Band standing in front of the old Holy Rosary Rectory on Sixth Street. Men are identified as left to right, first row: Joe Herslscher, Gus Dreibroat (band leader), Vince Nesvadba, John Nesvadba. Second row: Bill Nesvadba, Arnold Dusek, Thomas Sicinski, Henry Sicinski, Leo Albright. Circa: late 1920's. Man in first row left is wearing sunglasses and has drum and drumsticks. Man on left, back row, has large drum. First row is standing on street, second row… more
Date: 1920~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Program: Musical Recital featuring John McCormack]

Description: Program for a musical performance, featuring singer John McCormack, with assistance from Lauri Kennedy (cellist) and Edwin Schneider (pianist), presented by D. L. Whittle, held on a February 1st, at 8:15 p.m., at Fair Park Auditorium in Dallas. Also includes advertisements for upcoming events at Fair Park Auditorium.
Date: 1920~/1939~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

Songs of the Y.M.B.L., Austin, Texas

Description: Songbook for the Young Men's Business League of Austin. Includes lyrics for America; 'Tucky Home; 'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon; Peggy O'Neill; Pack up Your Troubles; and others.
Date: [1920..1930]
Creator: Young Men's Business League (Austin, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Device for Teaching Music

Description: Patent for a music education device aimed toward children and basic music building blocks. It is designed to teach the positions of piano keyboard notes through the use of differently dressed and named puppets. These puppets can be adjusted to also introduce basic musical concepts like rests, rhythm, and time.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Maxwell, Annie L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[National Anthem at Locklear's funeral]

Description: Photograph of Ormer Locklear's funeral. Text on the reverse reads: "Army units and civilians stand at attention during playing of 'National Anthem' at Los Angeles Southern Pacific Station on Central Avenue. Spray of flowers marks Locklear's casket. Sol Wurtzel stands to left of spray. Locklear's body is being sent to Fort Worth, Elliott's to Gadsden, Alabama, August 5, 1920."
Date: August 5, 1920
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

Leaf-Turner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Holcom, Jarret C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Player Piano

Description: Patent for a new form of valve for mechanical piano operated by pneumatic mechanisms in which the value is self-centering and does away with the guide pin usually employed, and an amplification of the wippen so that the striker rod is placed at the front of the pneumatic mechanism where it is accessible. The change in leverage permits the use of a smaller pneumatic.
Date: January 31, 1922
Creator: Pace, Vara L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Edouard Potjes to Mr. and Mrs. Turney, November 16, 1922]

Description: Letter from Edouard Potjes to Mr. and Mrs. Turney discussing his travels, and some of his music students at a school called, The Cornish School. The Cornish School's stationary mark is at the top of the letter. The accompanying envelope is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Turney, and has a return address from The Cornish School.
Date: November 16, 1922
Creator: Potjes, Edouard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

Happy Hunting Ground

Description: Collection of popular folklore from Central and South America, including Mexican ballads, primitive art, cowboy dances, reptile myths, superstitions, Indian pictographs, and other folktales. The index begins on page 127.
Date: 1925
Creator: Texas Folklore Society & Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[Photograph of Wayne King]

Description: Photograph of a print of a portrait of Wayne King wearing a light-colored suit, a white shirt, a patterned tie, and a white pocket handkerchief. He is smiling and looking directly at the camera. The text under the image reads "Wayne King, the Waltz King." The print is taped to a wall.
Date: October 30, 1925
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[McMurry College Department of Fine Arts Recital Program]

Description: Program for the McMurry College Department of Fine Arts recital, with performers including Eugene Luker, Doris Powell, Boog Sears, Maggie Wallace George, Irene Jay, Madge McCauley, Pearl Jefferies, Christine Collins, Vera Hall, Martha Medley, Mrs. Phillip Schultz, Cecil Bishop, Grady Morton, Lloyd Jones, Lela Mae Skinner, Lloyd Campbell, and Leonard T. Burford.
Date: June 1, 1926
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: McMurry University Library
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