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Melodeon

Description: An old wooden melodeon with carved legs. There are informational plaques visible on top of the instrument (but not legible) as well as an illustrated piece of sheet music for "The Texian Grand March."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Valentine Post Card]

Description: Valentine postcard with a cupid upon a musical staff made of golden horizontal arrows with notes made of red hearts on ribbons. Text on the front of the card reads, "Yes-loving is a painful thrill, Ant not to love more painful still; But oh, it is the worst of pain. To love and not be loved again!" Correspondence on the back reads, "How is my precious 'Amnus'". It is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, Chickasha, Okla. and is postmarked Paris, Texas on Feb 14, 1908.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[Butcher Shop]

Description: Humorous color postcard with a drawing depicting a woman standing in a butcher shop with a package in her hands. Music and lyrics at the bottom of the card read, "Take back the heart"
Date: unknown
Creator: Belcher, C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

Elementary School Honor Band

Description: Copy photograph of the Abilene Elementary School Honor Band. The band members are posed with their instruments on the steps of a building, presumably Abilene Elementary School. Behind them is a banner that reads, "Abilene Elementary School Honor Band."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Public Summer Band Class

Description: Copy photograph of a public summer band class at Abilene High School. Children of various ages are posed with their instruments on the steps of a building, presumably Abilene High School. In the front row is a drum with a large letter "A" on it.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Musical Performance]

Description: Photograph of the trombone section at a musical performance in the auditorium at St. Philip's College. Two men are playing trombones with a music sheet stand in front of them. To their right, four people are visible from the audience. The middle row consists of J.B. Williams and Browning Samples.
Date: 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: St. Philips College

Manuscript leaf of music.

Description: Vellum / parchment leaf with writing on both sides. The text is in Latin, in black, with occasional red letters. It includes sections of musical notation (5-line staff notation, square dots used for the notes). Recto with 12 full lines of text, 3 partial lines of text and one partial line of music, and one line of music. Verso with two lines of music, one partial line of music (out to side on left), and 12 lines of text.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore)

Description: Volume of "a collection of essays by contemporary folklorists who are writing about the customs and traditions and the songs and the stories that are going on now" (inside the front cover). It includes information about the folklore of cowboys, rodeos, chain letters and marijuana, as well as information about country, swing and gospel music. Index begins on page 301.
Date: 1976
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

Texas Almanac, 1996-1997

Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, history, wildlife, science, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time. The general index and advertisers index begin on page 631.
Date: 1995
Creator: Ramos, Mary G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Texas Almanac, 1998-1999

Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, history, wildlife, science, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time. The general index and advertisers index begin on page 631.
Date: 1997
Creator: Ramos, Mary G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

[Women's Church Choir on a Stage]

Description: Photograph of a group of women on a large stage singing from choral books. All of the women are dressed up in light, formal sundresses, and some are wearing wide-brimmed sun hats. In front of the line of singers, there is a table decorated with a light lace tablecloth and a vase of flowers. To the right of the table, there is a woman in a white dress playing a large piano. On top of the piano there is another vase of flowers. On the bottom of the photograph there is printed writing that reads, … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Attachment for Pianos or Organs

Description: Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Stukes, John M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tuning Device for Pianos.

Description: Patent for "a means whereby the strings of a piano may be easily and deliberately tuned, and when tuned they will be held absolutely rigid and unyielding under all circumstances while the pins are set in wood, thus avoiding any possibility of the jarring of the parts." (Lines 36-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Orser, Levi
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs

Description: Patent for a "mechanical attachment for pianos and organs whereby and musical composition executed upon the instrument shall be automatically recorded upon a travelling strip or band or, if preferred, on the cylindrical surface of a revolving drum" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Harriman, John Emery, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Musical Notation

Description: Patent for a notation which provides "a sheet in which the tones in their successive order of degrees by septenaries comprising the limit of the human voice from low to high pitch or from base to treble will be graphically indicated, and also to furnish a means whereby mechanical transposition of the notated characters may be effected" (lines 14-20).
Date: September 13, 1892
Creator: Robberson, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stringed Instrument

Description: Patent for "an instrument that may be conveniently supported upon the lap of the player without any supporting-bands, that is of unique and handsome appearance, that is strong and durable, not liable to be injured by ordinary falls, in which the bridge is secure, the neck properly braced, and to give to the body such shape as will increase its resonance, while at the same time preserving the musical sweetness inherent in instruments of this class" (lines 13-22).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Ganss, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Exercising Device.

Description: Patent for an "exercising device for teaching beginners the correct touch on the piano to systematically develop finger [technique]." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Felden, Oscar
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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