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[A Lion's Club Christmas Project]

A note by A.F. Weaver identifies this group as "Left to right: Lions, Cary Lodal, Moon Mullins, Charlie Johnson, "Santa Claus", Jess Pervine, Noble Glenn." The last four are pictured as sitting on the running board of a General Motors truck, which appears to be loaded with wrapped gifts. (No connection is known or implied, but since the "Santa Claus" in the picture is not identified, an interesting bit of local history is offered by way of suppletion: Rancher Charley Belding, a bachelor livin… more

Date: 1938?

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

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[Cochran Family Films, No. 12 - Holidays and Community Events]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including vacations, holidays, and community events. The film begins with the family fishing and boating on Possum Kingdom Lake (00:00-03:06), Cheryl (Cherry) Cochran celebrating her first birthday (03:06-07:38), fishing on what may be Black Lake in Louisiana (07:38-08:00), Cheryl (Cherry) celebrating her second birthday with her family and a kitten (08:00-11:32), and Christmas with the Cochran family (11:32-15:27). … more

Date: 195X

Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds

Creator: Cochran, Jay

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Media Library

[News Script: Pageant]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Christmas pageant organized by airmen at Wolters Air Force Base in Mineral Wells.

Date: December 16, 1954

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A Christmas Card from Boyce Ditto]

Christmas card sent to Mrs. Weaver, signed "Boyce Ditto." The front cover has a picture of greenery decorated with red bells and silver balls; at the top it says "To A Special Friend." The inside has a similar illustration in the center with text on either side. The text on the left says, "Friends as fine/ as you are/ Don't often come/ one's way./ And special times/ like Christmas/ Don't happen every day." The text on the right continues: "And so this/ Christmas greeting/ Is coming to exten… more

Date: unknown

Item Type: Artwork

Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

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[News Clip: Pageant]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Christmas pageant organized by airmen at Wolters Air Force Base in Mineral Wells.

Date: December 16, 1954

Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Christmas Card from the Seybolds]

Photographic Christmas card from Dorothee and Elmer Seybold to Isaac Herbert Kempner with a handwritten note along the left margin that says, "May this be your Merriest Christmas" signed by the Seybolds. In the photograph, the Seybolds are wearing dark-colored Western-style costumes and posing on either side of their ranch gate. Dorothee is looking at the camera and Elmer is waving a cowboy hat, looking towards the right of the image.

Date: 1948