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[Spinning and Weaving]

Description: Photograph of A woman demonstrating weaving to three young girls at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Other tent roofs and a large wooden structure are visible in the background.
Date: [1997-07-31..1997-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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["Well Spring of Life: Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora" slideshow video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters of a slideshow showing the works in exhibition for "Well Spring of Life: Contemporary Arts of the African Diaspora". The video includes still photographs of works from the countries of Ghana, Haiti and Nigeria transitioned by a page-turning animation. The art is primarily painting and mixed 2-D media.
Date: 1991
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Snap Fastener

Description: Patent for a snap fastener for fastening snap buttons, hooks, and eyes. Intended to replace the need for sewing fasteners onto garments, particularly women's dresses
Date: January 18, 1921
Creator: Warrington, Samuel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame

Description: Patent for a new type of quilting frame. The improved Quilting-Frame can be used with a standard sewing machine. The device allows a sewing machine to in seams.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Cribbs, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting-Frame

Description: Patent for improved quilting frame which may be set up easily, and folded down and stored when not in use. Additionally, the improved design provides for fabric to be secured on all sides, and for the operator to adjust the angle of the fabric.
Date: July 10, 1906
Creator: Berglund, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Two women working on fabric]

Description: Photograph of two women working on a stretch of fabric out in a backyard.The woman on the left is facing the camera and is caught in motion blur, she reaches for a small box sitting on the fabric in the lower right corner. The woman on the right is positioned with her profile to the camera and appears to be hammering the fabric with her right hand. Both of the women wear large bonnets that shield their faces from the sun.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Program: Expressions of a People]

Description: Program for Expression of a People, directed by Nedra P. James and sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dallas, Neiman-Marcus, and the Dallas Summer Musicals. The front of the program contains an illustration of an African American family by Leo and Diane Dillon. This performance included performers Billie Kerl Roberts, Linda Searight, and Gale Washington Tyler.
Date: 1977/2013
Creator: Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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