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[Riley Family Films, No. 4 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1952-1953]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including birthdays and holidays with an especial focus on oldest daughter Helen and her newborn sibling. The film begins with the new baby being held by relatives in front of a Christmas tree (00:00-01:47) and continues with the new baby being carried into Catholic church, possibly for baptism (01:47-02:55), and the family gathered outdoors and posing with the new baby (02:55-05:00). The film continues with the fa… more
Date: 1952/1953
Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 6 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1953-1954]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family in 1953 through 1954. The footage includes young Helen Riley being pulled on a sled (00:00-01:21), a new baby coming home from the hospital (01:21-01:46) and posing with relatives (01:46-05:13), family members boarding an American Airlines airplane (05:13-05:51), a family gathering following a baptism (05:51-07:20), children playing outdoors (07:21-11:30), a Christmas-themed second birthday party (11:30-13:37), chi… more
Date: 1953/1954
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including the groundbreaking ceremony for a Dallas building with the Gibralter building in the background (00:00 - 02:07; children painting birdhouses and playing football (02:07 - 04:07); a birthday celebration (04:27 - 06:43), billboards for the Santa Fe railroad service to Dallas (06:43 - 07:07); a Ford Farming building in the snow (07:07 - 11:45); a family vacation to Paradise Valley Country Club in … more
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 54 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Partner: UNT Media Library

[News Script: Condemned negro baptised in jail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the baptism of Willie Lee Gage, a convicted rapist awaiting execution at the Tarrant County jail. Gage is baptized into the Pentecostal Church a month before he is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Huntsville Prison.
Date: February 4, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Church Roll and Record

Description: Book containing a member roll for Union Missionary Baptist Church. Includes such information as the date of reception or dismissal, as well as a list of deaths and inactive members.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Union Missionary Baptist Church
Partner: Carrollton Public Library
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[News Clip: Condemned negro baptised in jail]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the baptism of Willie Lee Gage, a convicted rapist awaiting execution at the Tarrant County jail. Gage is baptized into the Pentecostal Church a month before he is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Huntsville Prison.
Date: February 4, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Messiah]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about G. H. West claiming he is the "Messiah of God".
Date: May 4, 1959
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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