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Automatic Piano

Description: Patent for an automatic piano that can play longer and is more compact than previous models.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Stauffer, Floyd F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Auto-Organ

Description: Patent for an organ that can be operated by vehicles or windmills. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: England, James Ross
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Federals taken by Insurrectos. Juarez, Mex.]

Description: Postcard caption reads: [Mexican] Federals taken by Insurrectos. Juarez, Mex. Six unidentified men are seen in this image - Mexican Federals. The caption reads Federals [soldiers] taken by Insurrectos. No information can be ascertained under whose command these Federal soldiers' were under. Most of the Federals in the image are wearing a matching outer coat or jacket which resembles one of the styles of the Mexican Federal Army during the Mexican Revolution. Two of the men are wearing sho… more
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Acting Troupe in Blackface]

Description: Photograph of an acting troupe, all men, in black face. One of them, in the back row, is dressed as a woman, with a blouse and a feathered hat. The man in the front row wearing a striped hat holds a horn instrument. The man on the far right does not wear black face, and is dressed in a three-piece suit and tie.
Date: [1911..1915]
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Simmons College Band, 1910-11]

Description: Photograph for the Simmons College band from the 1910-11 school year, showing the members of the band on the front steps of a campus building. There are 26 people standing in two rows with their instruments. A small child wearing a matching uniform stands in front of the bottom row.
Date: [1910..1911]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Casing for Player-Pianos.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements" (lines 9-10) to the casing for player pianos. Improvements include simplifying numerous operations of the piano to be accomplished by one mechanism. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1915
Creator: Terry, Charles R. & Money, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of a Woman Playing a Violin]

Description: Photograph of a woman (Aara Desmond) playing a violin in front of a china cabinet and drawers, in a room with dark, floral wallpaper and wood features. The woman is wearing an old-fashioned, floor-length dress, and there is a music stand in front of her. A wooden chair is partially visible behind her. There is information about the photo on the back.
Date: 1911
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[1911 HSU Band]

Description: Copy slide of a photograph of the Simmons College Band in white uniforms and with their musical instruments. One of the drums is labeled with the text "Simmons College Band".
Date: 1911
Partner: McMurry University Library

[Portrait of Jim Buchanan]

Description: Photograph of a man identified as Jim Buchanan. He is wearing a light-colored military uniform and a ribbon that says "2nd Infantry Band [-] Brenham." He is sitting on a stool and holding a trumpet in his lap.
Date: September 1915
Creator: Winkelmann's Studio
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Kay Shuey with her Violin]

Description: Photograph of Kay Shuey sitting next to a piano holding a violin and bow; there is a wooden cupboard next to her on the left and there are several pictures hanging on the wallpapered wall in the background.
Date: March 27, 1917
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Music Room]

Description: Photograph of a music room with an organ in the corner, a violin propped up against it, and a cello leaning against the wall; with two chairs and a couch and several pictures hanging on the wall in the background.
Date: [1911..1934]
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Young Man by Organ]

Description: Photograph of a young man wearing a suit and tie posing, standing, with his arm resting on an organ; behind him there is a picture of a woman hanging on the wall, which is covered in wallpaper.
Date: 1912
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Christmas Tree]

Description: Photograph of a Christmas tree decorated with strings of popcorn, a doll, and various other ornaments; underneath it are a broom, a violin and bow, and various wrapped parcels.
Date: 1911
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Circus Parade]

Description: Photograph of a circus parade on a town street featuring a horse-drawn caravan with a small band of musicians playing brass instruments on top of it; on the right there are several large brick buildings and people watching the parade.
Date: [1911..1934]
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

[Family in Front of Organ]

Description: Portrait of three unidentified people posing, sitting, in front of an organ next to a window with lace curtains; the woman is wearing a light-colored dress and sitting in a chair, the young man (center) and an older man (right) are both wearing suits and ties.
Date: 1912
Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
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