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[News Script: SMU cornerstone]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about historians saving the original cornerstone of Southern Methodist University when it was a college in Oklahoma.
Date: September 7, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Stone Marker

Description: Copy photograph of the Simmons College cornerstone. The stone is surrounded by rope and says, "Simmons College AD 1891." Two buildings are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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[News Clip: White tactics]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 19, 1983, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Head Cornerstone at Antioch Baptist Church

Description: Photograph of the head cornerstone of Antioch Baptist Church in Palestine, Texas. The stone bears the names of several people, including Reverend William Duncan, the pastor at the time of the cornerstone setting. Other names include: W. Bragg, Samuel Price, and John Dickerson, who are the trustees, and W. Freeman, the builder. Also on the stone is the date of construction.
Date: unknown
Partner: Price Johnson Family Collection

[Photograph of Simmons College Cornerstone]

Description: Cornerstone from the original administration building of Simmons College which reads, “Simmons College -- A.D. 1891 -- Builders, J.M. Archer, Archt.” Handwritten note on the back of the note compares this photograph with an “ARN article dated 5-13-1951, page 5-A.”
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[1931 Birdville School 7th Grade and School Cornerstone]

Description: Photograph of the 1931 Birdville School 7th grade class and a photograph of the old Birdville School cornerstone. The first photo shows the seventh grade class posing together outside of a building in rows with a sign of their class below them. The second photo shows two men holding the cornerstone of the old Birdville School next to a model of the school.
Date: 1931
Partner: Birdville Historical Society

[Two People with the Denton Main Street Association]

Description: Photograph of two unidentified people with the Denton Main Street Association selling cornerstones at a table in front of a business on the southeast corner of the square. There is a poster next to them that reads "Downtown Denton Cornerstones," four bricks with people's names engraved into them on the table, and various people walking around behind them.
Date: October 1991
Creator: Glover, Julie
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Carved Stone Sign]

Description: Photograph of a carved concrete slab inset in a brick structure. There is carved writing in Spanish that translates to read, "Presbyterian Church Organized - Oct. 19, 1911, Temple Built - 1952, J.G. Cavazos, Pastor". There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Benito Cornerstone of new church".
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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[News Clip: Masonic home]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the construction of a chapel at the masonic home and school.
Date: November 29, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hospital cornerstone]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a cornerstone laying ceremony for the new All Saints Episcopal Hospital in Fort Worth.
Date: November 1, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dedication]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the dedication of Tarrant County's new civil courts building.
Date: December 12, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Marble Cornerstone for Fifth Street Methodist Church]

Description: Photograph of one side of Waco's Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South marble cornerstone, which is set in an orange-brick wall. Text is inscribed within a raised, pointed-arch shape: "Erected A.D. 1876. W. B. Trice Chm. Build. Com. W. C. Dodson Archt."
Date: January 15, 2021
Creator: Willis, T. Bradford
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Dedication Stone

Description: Pinkish stone engraved with this message: “Dedicated to the -- Pioneers of West Tex. -- By Seniors 27.” The edges of the stone are not smooth, and a piece appears to be missing from the top.
Date: 1927
Partner: McMurry University Library
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