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["Love and Nappiness Revue" live performance]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the "Love and Nappiness Revue" over the weekend of June 15-16th, 2001 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The footage shows various short performances all centered on the topic of promoting a positive image of the African American cultural heritage. All the skits focus on the rituals of beauty and the stories that are told as a result of the process of keeping one's hair.
Date: June 16, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: A Nappy Hair Affair
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Brownsville Market Square, East View]

Description: Photograph of the western facade of the Market Square building in Brownsville, Texas, facing the east. The two-story sandstone building features recessed arches above the doors along the ground floor, engaged columns spanning across both stories, and moulding along the top of the walls. Signs are placed on the building: at left, on the awning, is a sign for a "sanitary fish market", and at right, next to the Market Square's western entrance. Five cars are pared along the front of the building, … more
Date: May 16, 1949
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Market Square, Northwest View #2]

Description: Photograph of the facade of the Market Square building in Brownsville, Texas, facing the northwest. The sandstone building features a tall belfry along its southeast corner, visible at center, with slotted windows along the structure below. Large paneled doors are to the right of the belfry tower, with a large circular window above and an American flag hanging from the eastern wall. The rest of the building lays to the left, built with shallow engaged columns between inset windows with half-cir… more
Date: May 16, 1949
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Market Square, Wall Construction #1]

Description: Photograph of workers constructing a wall in the Market Square building in Brownsville, Texas. Construction is visible at center-left, where construction workers standing on the first floor ceiling build the exterior wall of a second-floor building, which currently consists of several wooden studs and other pieces of scaffolding. Wooden pieces are visible around the work site and along the sidewalk on the ground, in front of the building's ground-floor windows. Cars are parked along completed … more
Date: May 16, 1949
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Market Square, Wall Construction #2]

Description: Photograph of workers nearing completion on the construction of a wall in the Market Square building, in Brownsville, Texas. Construction is visible at center-left, where construction workers stand on the first floor ceiling, in front of a sandstone second-floor exterior building with windows and engaged columns. Piles of lumber lay on a long awning spanning the length of the sidewalk adjacent to the building, to the left of which are parked cars.
Date: May 16, 1949
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Navigation District]

Description: Photograph of the Brownsville Navigation District near the International Bridge crossing into Mexico. The Navigation District building is located at bottom-center, a one-story white building with brick corners and several cars parked besides. A sign for the international bridge is placed below the building, and the international bridge itself, a long metal truss bridge, is visible at far-left. The Rio Grande flows from right, behind the Navigation District building, and under the bridge, and al… more
Date: May 16, 1949
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Brownsville Resaca]

Description: Photograph of a resaca (oxbow lake) near the American-Mexican border in Brownsville, facing towards the east. Around the lake, on its left and bottom sides, are the buildings of the Brownsville Junior College, including a large athletics complex below the lake. Other buildings and houses are visible further below, along the bottom of the image. A water tower is visible at far left, near a baseball field.
Date: May 16, 1949
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Location: None
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[Four Ornamental Moldings]

Description: Photograph of four separate wall moldings. The first, markeed "20," looks like the top of a column with a square base, curled figures, and a flat top. The next, marked "21," has a curled figure in the middle with flowers on either side of it and a decorative border at the top. The next one, number 29, is a small column top with petal-like figures and a flat top. The last piece, number 17, has a semicircle shape with a shield in the center and flowers on either side of it. Attached to the photog… more
Date: May 16, 1932
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[KBOR Car at the Port of Brownsville #1]

Description: Photograph of a KBOR-owned car at the Port of Brownsville, in front of a docked banana boat named "Santamaria". At center-left stands a radio worker interviewing a man in a hat, holding out a microphone to below his face amid bundles of unripe bananas stacked in front of both men and the KBOR car. Workers process banana bundles behind the two men, and other men stand on the dock and on the boat's bridge, facing the photographer.
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[KBOR Car at the Port of Brownsville #2]

Description: Photograph of a KBOR-owned car at the Port of Brownsville, in front of a docked banana boat named "Santamaria". At center-left stands a radio worker interviewing a man in a hat, holding out a microphone to below his face amid bundles of unripe bananas stacked in front of both men and the KBOR car. Workers process banana bundles behind the two men, and other men stand on the dock and on the boat's bridge, facing the photographer.
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[KBOR Car at the Port of Brownsville #3]

Description: Photograph of a KBOR-owned car at the Port of Brownsville, in front of a docked banana boat named "Santamaria". At center-left stands a radio worker interviewing a man in a hat, holding out a microphone to below his face amid bundles of unripe bananas stacked in front of both men and the KBOR car. Workers process banana bundles behind the two men, and other men stand on the dock and on the boat's bridge, facing the photographer.
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: A. Rogers Studio
Partner: Brownsville Historical Association

[News Release: Firscal Reports Approved]

Description: A news release from the AIDS ARMS Network announcing that their fiscal reports had been accepted and that the Network's partners will continue to be able to assist persons with HIV/AIDS but that some employees of the Oak Lawn Counseling Center could no longer be compensated for their work.
Date: May 16, 1988
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Press Release: Care Bill]

Description: A press release from the AIDS Action Council discussing the organization's Executive Director, Dan Bross, testifying on behalf of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act.
Date: April 16, 1991
Creator: AIDS Action Council
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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