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Combination Swing and Couch.

Description: Patent for a piece of swinging furniture for infants and small children which can be converted between a seat and a couch. This device is designed to be collapsed and folded for easy storage, as well as to be cheap and easy to manufacture. Illustrations included.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: McDevitt, Leslie I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sliding Caster

Description: Patent for improvements to furniture sliding casters for protecting the furniture, as well as floors and carpets when moving furniture. Improvements include caster prongs "which are set back from the outer margin of the caster so as not to split or mutilate the [furniture] leg" (lines 23-25) and casters that are "easily casted or stamped out from sheet metal [ . . . ] which therefore may be cheaply and easily manufactured" (lines 29-32).
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Preston, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Furniture Store Display]

Description: Photograph of a window display at Cabaniss Brown Furniture Store, where a long couch can be seen on the left side of the room and a shorter one with an end table can be seen on the right. A coffee table sits between them and a giraffe art piece can be seen on the wall to the left. A long cabinet can be seen in back of the room against a glass wall. Several advertisement signs can be seen throughout the display.
Date: February 24, 1958
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Furniture Collage]

Description: Photograph of a collage of three images of simple, mid-century modern styled tables featuring diagonal angles in their design.
Date: May 15, 1958
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Folding Stool

Description: Patent for folding stool which may be used alternatively as a sun-shade or cane, including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Bachtel, Sidney J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Furniture market underway in Dallas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the thirty-third annual Southwest Furniture Market in Dallas. Buyers visit the market to select the new lines they will carry in their furniture stores.
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Exterior View of a Furniture Showroom]

Description: Photograph of a furniture showroom for the H.M. Oetting Furniture Company taken from outside and viewed through large picture windows. The display includes two armchairs, a chair at a desk, two dressers, three lamps, and a bed with a bench at the end.
Date: June 1, 1947
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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[News Clip: Furniture market underway in Dallas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the thirty-third annual Southwest Furniture Market in Dallas. Buyers visit the market to select the new lines they will carry in their furniture stores.
Date: July 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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