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[News Clip: Exhumation]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: September 12, 1989
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Burial-Vault

Description: Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Coffins

Description: Patent for a coffin attachment which supports the head and shoulders of the body and allows them to be adjusted vertically. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Deering, Uriah H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Nelms]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story by news reporter James Kerr about Dallas landowner O. L. Nelms including a provision in his will that will earmark five million dollars for the creation of a non-profit foundation that will provide free public parties as well as a $25,000 silver coffin to be kept on display in the designated party building.
Date: March 2, 1969
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Funeral]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 7, 1984, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Funeral (Waco murders)]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 17, 1982, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cop funeral]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 26, 1981, 12:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Burial-Casket

Description: This patent is for a burial casket. One of the aims of this casket is to obviate the necessity of using metallic securing devices which now commonly corrode or deteriorate from moisture and expose the body of the corpse to moisture in the ground as well as to parasites and burrowing animals.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: McKinney, Jacob D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Rent-A-Coffin]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 28, 1978, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cross planting]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 19, 1984, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: First Monday]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 1, 1980, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Elizabeth Franklin to the Moore family, January 10, 1901]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Elizabeth "Bettie" Franklin and is addressed to the Moore family. In the letter, Franklin informs the Moore family that Matilda Dodd has passed way from pneumonia. She discusses the time period right before Dodd passed and describes how the family worked very hard to keep her well with visits from the Doctor and with medicine. The family realized she would not get well and all they could do was keep her comfortable tile she… more
Date: January 10, 1901
Creator: Franklin, Elizabeth
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: USS Iowa (BB-61)]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 p.m.
Date: April 20, 1989
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Skeleton Sculpture and Coffin]

Description: Photograph of an abstract animal skeleton sculpture on the left and a display featuring a coffin on a black platform with crosses, pictures, and other smaller objects in front of it in the background.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[News Script: Nude bank robber?]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 23 year old Debbie Denis Townsend who says that she is nude model who has been arrested in Houston and charged with the robbery of the Bank of Commerce point.
Date: August 1, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Stunt driver tries for marathon mark]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jimmie Frazier performing a publicity stunt for a Garland auto dealer. He lies in a bed of ice for one hour, then attempts to drive for one-hundred-and-twenty hours without sleeping.
Date: July 17, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Curious attend Kelly funeral]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the funeral of George "Machine Gun" Kelly, the ringleader of the 1933 kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel.
Date: July 25, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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