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Spring Trade! Fain, Peery, and Shelton!!

Description: An 1882 advertisement for Fain, Peery, and Shelton claims the very latest style from New York and other eastern markets. Dress goods, buntings, lawns, alpaccas, cashmeres, carpets, etc. are sold at this department store on the east side of the square.
Date: March 11, 1882
Creator: Fain, Perry, & Shelton
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Partner: Denton Public Library

[Photograph of Goods Drying Outside Furniture Store]

Description: Photograph of businesses in downtown Corpus Christi after the 1919 hurricane. Clothing is hung on lines to dry in front of the furniture store. Horses and wagons stand in the street beside the businesses, Inscribed on the back of the photo, "Sept 1919 - East side of Chap. just north of Lichenstein's (old store) - goods hung out to dry."
Date: September 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History

Portrait of Mother with Five Children

Description: Copy negative of a mother, Harriet Cumi Black Mayes, with her five children, names unknown. Harriet stands in the back and the three boys and two girls sit in wicker chairs. An animal fur drapes down to the floor. The girls have curls in their har and are wearing light colored dresses and the boys are wearing collared shirts under their jacket and shorts with leggings underneath.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Four Men Dressed as Women

Description: Copy negative of three unknown men and Wally Akin dressed in women's clothing. The men are sitting in a line on a window ledge of a brick building. They are wearing women's skirts with socks, dress shoes, suit jackets, vests, ties, and hats. Handwritten notes are around the image.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Fashion Show

Description: Copy photograph of two images of a fashion show at the Abilene Civic Center during the Abilene Centennial celebration. In the left image, a group of people in frontier-style clothing walk down the front steps of the Abilene Civic Center. A group of people watches. In the right image, two children in Native American costume walk across the front of the Abilene Civic Center. A woman stands in the foreground.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

School Project Displays

Description: Copy photograph of two images of student projects on display at the Abilene Civic Center. The left image shows the project of a Cooper High School student, "Abilene Homes, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow." The display is an interior with a table and two chairs, a stove, a wooden cabinet, and a wagon wheel. There are photographs on the wall. The right images shows the project of a Lincoln Jr. High School student, "Home Cares of Yesteryear." The display consists of a bookshelf and table with photograp… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Birthday Cake; Fashion Show

Description: Copy photograph of two images taken during the Abilene Centennial Celebration. In the left image, a large birthday cake for the city of Abilene sits on a table. The cake says, "Happy Birthday Abilene 1881 1981." In the right image, a woman wearing a frontier-style dress walks in front of the Abilene Civic Center. A group of people watches.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Safeway Grocery Store #1

Description: Photograph of food and goods aisles in a Safeway grocery store located at Willis and Ambler in Abilene, Texas. The goods aisles include shirts, blouses, hosiery and underwear. Signs on the wall in the background say, "Household Needs, Electrical Goods, Health and Beauty."
Date: 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Safeway Grocery Store #2

Description: Photograph of food and goods aisles in a Safeway grocery store located at Willis and Ambler in Abilene, Texas. The goods aisles include shirts, blouses, hosiery and underwear. Signs on the wall in the background say, "Household Needs, Electrical Goods, Health and Beauty."
Date: 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Air Plane Wrecked At Marfa Texas]

Description: Photograph of a plane wreck in Marfa, Texas in June 1919. The plane has crashed into a small pond. Two men can be seen standing in the background. In the foreground is clothing, including a hat, that belonged to children killed when the plane hit the pond. A handwritten note on the photograph says, "Air plane wrecked at Marfa Tex June 26th 1919."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Improvement in Hats

Description: Patent for "a new and improved ventilated hat...which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification" (lines 3-5). including instructions and an illustration.
Date: September 1, 1868
Creator: Watkins, M. S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plaiting Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new and improved plaiting machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, of a plaiting apparatus, of a fixed transverse bar, a second transverse bar adapted to be adjusted relative thereto, and means for securing the said adjustment, each of said bars being provided with a transverse metallic strip bent to form inclined ribs" (lines 98-103).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Raney, Ollie T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knee-Protector.

Description: Patent for leg protectors that have "a pad or reinforcement on the knees thereof, such as will afford a sufficient protection against injury by stones or other hard substances or irregularities on the surface of the ground or other place upon which the wearer is obliged to kneel." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Herbelin, Alfred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Receipt Roll No. 1, June 1865]

Description: Receipt Roll No. 1 of clothing distributed to non-commissioned officers, artificers, musicians, and privates of Company F, 1st New York Cavalry. The list includes the names of the men and what type of clothing they received.
Date: June 1865
Creator: Redway, Hamilton K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[List of clothing, no date]

Description: Partial page of list of clothing stores. Only one column of the form is used and seems to possibly be a price list for items of clothing and equipage, including forage caps ($1.00), woolen blankets ($7.00),bugles ($3.65), and flannel sack coats ($4.80). There are no dates or names on the fragment, but it is probably from New York Volunteer Cavalry in 1864 or 1865.
Date: 186X
Creator: United States. Army.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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