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[Downtown Aubrey, 1972]

Description: Photograph of a wide angle view of downtown Aubrey, Texas, showing cars and pickup trucks parked in front of Gordon's; Jackie's Hardware; and Pettit's Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, and Meats.
Date: 1972
Creator: Harmon, Joyce
Partner: Private Collection of Bouncer Goin

[Jane Long's Piano in the museum.]

Description: Photograph of Jane Long's piano in the Fort Bend Museum. The piano is dark-colored and has several items on top of the lid, including a lamp (left), a violin laying on its side (center), and a decorative plant (right). It is in front of a brick wall, direclty below a painted portrait of Long and to the right of framed, printed text (not readable).
Date: [1972..1987]
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Denton High School Class of '42 Reunion

Description: Denton High School 30-year class reunion of the 1942 class. Those identified are: George Hopkins, Bill Cromer, Margie Lynn Brooks, Cara Boswell, Fred Slach, Zeke Martin, Colin McSween, Jane Jagoe Stabile, Lanell White Little, John Waldrip, Jack Bayless.
Date: July 15, 1972
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Opening Marshall's First McDonald's]

Description: At the grand opening of the first McDonald's in Marshall, Texas, Mrs. Audrey Kariel performed the traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony as McDonald's officials, John Gehl and Gerald Stiles, look on. Attached to the ribbon were 100 one dollar bills, which were presented to Mrs. Kariel as a donation to the Marshall Public Library building fund. Mrs. Kariel was a member of the library board of trustees and a director of the Friends of a Public Library group that spear-headed the fund drive.
Date: 1972
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Thiokol Chemical Corp. Makes Gift to Library]

Description: The Longhorn Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp. made the first of three donations to the building fund for Marshall Public Library in 1972. Herschel Q. Holly, right, present a $1000 check to Fenn Lewis, center, president of the Friends of a Public Library. Looking on at left is Max Lale, staff assistant, plant relations.
Date: July 24, 1972
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Opening of Marshall's First McDonald's]

Description: Audrey Kariel performs the ribbon-cutting for the first McDonald's in Marshall, Texas on October 20, 1972. The ribbon held 100 one-dollar bills which were donated to the building fund for the new Marshall Public Library, which opened one year later.
Date: October 20, 1972
Partner: Marshall Public Library

[Joella Orr, Emily Fowler Public Library Director]

Description: Photograph of Joella Orr, director of Emily Fowler Public Library in Denton, Texas, getting into a car. Oakland Street can be seen behind her, curving to the west. In her right hand, she is holding a pair of sunglasses. In her left, is a long zipper bag with gold lettering that says, 59th Conference. Texas Library Association, April 5-6, 1972, Galveston, Texas.
Date: ~1972
Partner: Denton Public Library

REM Acrostics

Description: Acrostics based on the names of 14 friends of the author, and his own. The title page and colophon are also written as acrostics also. The people are: Robert E. Massmann; Samuel E. Murray; J.N.B. Artfield; Ruth E. adomeit; F. J. Board; Glen Dawson; A. J. St. Onge; Julia P. Wightman; Eugene D. Buchanan; Francis J. Gagiardi; Royce L. Gale Jr.; Philip Bliss; Julian I. Edison; and Raymond A. Smith.
Date: 1972
Creator: Massmann, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Welcome Sign]

Description: The WELCOME Sign (shown here) was fostered in 1922 by George Holmgren, the Texas Rotary Club's Governor, following a convention of the Rotary Club in Mineral Wells. The twelve-foot letters were built in Mr. Holmgren's San Antonio iron works by Mr. James Calvert, who was 17 years old when he and his father were commissioned to forge the letters. Mr. Calvert had played trumpet in the "F" troop cavalry as well as playing in the Frank Bird Orchestra in the Baker Hotel. Mr. Holmgren then gave the… more
Date: 1972
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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