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Composition for Tanning

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in compounds for tanning, using water, four gallons, fluid extract of phytolacca or common poke root, quarter of an ounce, gum gambier, four pounds, and alum, one pound.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Burrows, Ira I
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Suntans]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 28, 1983, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Texans Talk]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5 P.M.
Date: August 21, 1990
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Esquire Girl: Painting by Al Moore "Medium- Rare"

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, a landscape spread, by Al Moore, of a blonde woman lounging on her stomach in a blue striped two-piece bathing suit. She has with her a radio, sunglasses, cigarettes, and matches. The page is stamped with the location the magazine was purchased as a Russell's Men's Department. The facing page is a muted-tone machismo bull and matador painting done by Ben Stahl.
Date: June 1950
Creator: Moore, Al
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Swimming Pool]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 24, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Process of Tanning Hides.

Description: Patent for "an improved process of tanning hides in an expeditious and economical manner, and to produce a fine quality of leather" (lines 8-11). The limed and haired hides are baited thrice, afterwards the hides are packed into "tanning-vats with bark and covering them with a solution of alum and water" (lines 80-82). The hides are then leached in salt water and scoured and dried.
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Rogers, John Charsley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tanning Compound.

Description: Patent for a new compound used for tanning hides and skins of all kinds. It lists the ingredients and their proportions. “The principal advantage of the compound is that its action on the hides is speedy” (lines 27-28).
Date: September 15, 1882
Creator: Hayden, Charles Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Fans]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 7, 1992, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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