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[News Clip: Home presented to polio victim]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new home presented to a man paralyzed by polio by a local charitable organization in Denton.
Date: December 19, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Santa Fe line dedication]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about groundbreaking ceremonies for the main line of the Santa Fe railroad that would lead to Dallas and Denton.
Date: December 12, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Sheriff]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Denton County Sheriff-Elect, Wylie H. Barnes, being shot in the stomach by a woman in his backyard. Barnes was critically injured but survived.
Date: July 28, 1954
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Polio victim to get new home]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Charles Barker, a Denton man who was paralyzed from polio, receiving a new home for him and his family, courtesy of his friends, the Denton Optimist club, and Denton craftsmen.
Date: July 25, 1954
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Candidates make final vote pleas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the day before election day in Texas, with candidates making final campaign stops throughout the state. Governor Allan Shivers, seeking a third term, makes a statewide radio broadcast from the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.
Date: July 23, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Pop now in can, drinks on house]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a plant in Denton introducing a new technological innovation to the region: Soda pop in metal cans.
Date: August 17, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Fishermen jam two new lakes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two lakes, Benbrook Lake and Grapevine Lake, opening up to fishermen. Both lakes were packed with fishermen on their opening day.
Date: June 1, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: CD moves]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Southwestern Regional Office of the Federal Civil Defense Administration moving from Dallas to Denton, due to the fear that Dallas will be a critical target in the event of nuclear war.
Date: March 31, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Storm]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a series of tornadoes striking towns across Texas, doing severe building damage but only killing one.
Date: March 25, 1954
Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Clip: Railway]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a construction project to build a new railroad link between Dallas and Denton.
Date: October 21, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video

[Herbert Ferrill and Odus Mitchell]

Description: Photograph of Herbert Ferrill (left) and Odus Mitchell (right), two football coaches for North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas). They are standing on a football field with the players after a game. Ferrill is talking to one of the players. All of the players are wearing uniforms and protective gear.
Date: [1954,1966]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Olive Honeycutt, Holford Russell, and Dorothy Babb]

Description: Photograph of Dorothy Babb (right) with Miss Olive Honeycutt (left) and Holford Russell (center), with a few of the gifts donated for Old Maid’s Day. A group of women in Denton started Old Maid’s Day in 1950 to get “recognition, not menfolks.” It all began when Miss Dorothy Babb, a Latin and English teacher at North Texas State College.
Date: May 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Photograph of Dorothy Babb, 2]

Description: Photograph ofDorothy Babb, a faculty member of the North Texas State College who taught English and Latin. In the photograph Babb is seated in a chair with her ankles crossed as she is opening a present in her lap. Babb is seen looking up when the photograph was taken.
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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