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[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864]

Description: Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara telling her that he is sending food, candy, and cloth. He requests that she sew the cloth into drawers and send them back to him. He states his salary will be $110 per month. He then lists his expenses. He tells Clara he has had Yellow Fever. He requests cotton socks. He ends by regretting not being able to spend Christmas with his family.
Date: December 21, 1864
Creator: Fentress, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Button.

Description: Patent for a button that can fit in any buttonhole. It is "a bar having a button or know affixed thereto and having key-hole-slots, of a button attached to an arm having a tongue and a contracted offset portion adjacent thereto and between the same and the button carried thereby, the said tongue being of a thickness substantially the same as the width of the slot" (lines 55-62).
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Burroughs, John J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cutter.

Description: Patent for improvements in cutters where the cutter is "specially adapted for smoothing the inside of barrels, kegs and the like, which are formed from wooden staves" (lines 11-14); includes illustration.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Highams, Frank T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collapsible Box

Description: Patent for collapsible boxes. Makes it easier and more convenient for people using them.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Houghland, Frank H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864]

Description: Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara telling her that he is sending food, candy, and cloth. He requests that she sew the cloth into drawers and send them back to him. He states his salary will be $110 per month. He then lists his expenses. He tells Clara he has had Yellow Fever. He requests cotton socks. He ends by regretting not being able to spend Christmas with his family.
Date: December 21, 1864
Creator: Fentress, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letters from Adelitia McGee to the Moore family and Alice McGee, October 16-17, 1889]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Adelitia "Dinkie" McGee to the Moore family and Alice McGee. In this letter, Dinkie details the goings-on in Gallatin, Tennessee and the news includes: weather updates, a discussion concerning Alice's Grandma McGee who has passed, a dialogue about making molasses from cane, news about the crops that survived and the crops that were ruined from frost, updates on family and friends, and the daily happenings since the Moore fa… more
Date: October 16, 1889
Creator: Dodd, Adelitia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Flyer: Project B.R.I.D.G.E. Sewing Workshop for Adults]

Description: Flyer advertising the "Project B.R.I.D.G.E. Sewing Workshop for Adults" program, presented by The Texas Commission on the Arts and The Housing Authority of the City of Houston. The workshops are held Tuesday evenings from September 8 through October 27, 1992.
Date: September 1992
Creator: Community Artists' Collective
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center
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["Spirit of the Cloth" textile exhibition gallery walk through video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a gallery walkthrough during the summer exhibition of the James E. Kemp Gallery "Spirit of the Cloth: African American Fiber Artisans". The footage shows an unnarrated walkthrough of the gallery with pauses on piece descriptions. The work features 60 works of traditional and contemporary textile pieces ranging from quilts to dolls to wearables all bright and vibrant in color and design.
Date: August 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 05 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Correspondence Between Daniel W. Kempner and Athens Tile & Pottery Company, October 1951]

Description: Letter from Daniel w. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company discussing his trip to Lawson Greenhouses to pick up his pottery only for none to be there. On the same page Athens Tile & Pottery Company replies that the delivery had not yet been made as they were out of stock of the pots Mr. Kempner ordered but they would be ready for delivery by the following week.
Date: October 2, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Folk Art in Texas

Description: This book describes popular folk art of Texas, including basket weaving, hat-making, yard art, sculptures, murals, cemetery art, quilt-making, tattoo art, and other miscellaneous folk art. The index begins on page 198.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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[News Clip: Raper]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a manhunt taking place in Houston after a string of assaults take place.
Date: November 13, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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