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Pegasus, Volume 3, Number 2, Winter 2015

Description: Biannual publication containing articles about genealogical research and genealogical information about families in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area, including family histories, lists of records (births, deaths, registration, etc.), correspondence, and and other documentation.
Date: Winter 2015
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Dallas Genealogical Society

[Oral History Interview with Kathlyn Joy Gilliam]

Description: Interview with Kathlyn Joy Gilliam, an activist and the first African American woman to become a Dallas School Board member. Gilliam discusses going to school in Dallas during segregation, her work and life afterwards during the fight for desegregation, other figures in the Dallas Civil Rights Movement, and programs for students to further their education. Gilliam also has a school named after her in Dallas.
Date: October 18, 2011
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

State Fair Food: Big Bites in Big D, Sept. 26-Oct. 19, or Moveable Feast: Walk around and eat at the State Fair of Texas, Sept. 26-Oct. 19, or Howdy Folks. Let's Eat!...at the State Fair of Texas, Sept. 26-Oct. 19

Description: Draft of an article about Texas State Fair food that was published in the October 2003 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2003-10~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 32.774698 -96.762150
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Clyde Jones, April 5, 1999

Description: Interview with Clyde Jones, former part-owner of Kerrville's first radio station, KERV, from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Jones discusses how he came to the area and his involvement with radio station, as well as some of the challenges he and his crew encountered. He also talks about his work with the Mental Health and Retardation Center at the Kerrville State Hospital. Mr. Jones briefly discusses his band, The Poverty Playboys.
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Jones, Clyde
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 9, Number 1, April 1981

Description: The newsletter of the Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas contains information related to the activities of the society and its members as well as genealogical notes and history for the Dallas County, Texas and surrounding areas. Index starts on page 44.
Date: April 1981
Creator: Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Carrollton Public Library

[Fire Station #17]

Description: Photograph of Fire Station #17. Two fire engines are partially pulled into the two open bays. An article about the station is also included.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Creator: Dallas (Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

Children at Theater

Description: Copy negative of a group of children standing on the sidewalk in front of the Arcadia Theatre in Dallas, Texas. The movie "Big Time" with Lee Tracy and Mae Clark is advertised. Most of the children are boys, and one of them is holding a pair of roller skates.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Large Men's Group Shot

Description: Copy negative of the Quarter Century Class of Dallas Consistory - Scottish Rite. There are about 50 men sitting in chairs and standing on stairs in front of a building. The event took place on November 10-13, 1930 in Dallas, Texas. There is a handwritten note below the picture and a partially visible newspaper article on the right.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Theater Exterior

Description: Copy negative of the outside of the Arcadia Theatre in Dallas, Texas. There is a large sign promoting the movie "The Vagabond King" with Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald. There are plants and other signs below, near the entrance. There is a note written to the left of the photograph.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Theater Exterior

Description: Copy negative of the outside of the Arcadia Theatre in Dallas, Texas. There is a large sign promoting the movie "The Vagabond King" with Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald. There are other signs near the entrance and a car is parked on the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Theater Exterior

Description: Copy negative of the outside of the Arcadia Theatre in Dallas, Texas taken from the street. There are several signs advertising the movie "The Vagabond King" with Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonal, and Lillian Roth.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Theater Interior

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of the inside of the Arcadia Theatre in Dallas. The first is the view from the stage, and the second is a view from the upper right side of the room. There are typed and written notes on the page.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Theater Staff

Description: Copy negative of the staff of the Arcadia Theatre in Dallas, Texas wearing suits and standing in front of a tree. They are H. P. Williams, Tom Carisle, Ralph Warner, and Houston Bailey.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

West Dallas Urban Area Survey

Description: Report documenting the findings of a survey in the West Dallas Urban Area to determine what steps should be taken for improvement: "This survey of the West Dallas Urban Area was undertaken primarily to make an inventory o existing housing and other structures, and of existing utilities and public facilities, or the lack of them, in order that problems could be appraised and a program developed for the area's renewal" (p. 1).
Date: January 1959
Creator: De Leuw, Cather & Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Location: None
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

An Outline of the Dallas Master Plan

Description: Outline of the Dallas Master Plan compiled by the Dallas City Plan Commission discussing the fourteen previous reports made by Harland Bartholomew. The report also contains maps showing the city's streets, water distribution, parks, etc. Included in the back is a handwritten list made by Mayor J. Woodall Rodgers listing members of the various boards and committees involved in the planning.
Date: 1946
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). City Plan Commission.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

The Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 14: A Preliminary Report Upon a Capital Expenditure Program

Description: Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes details concerning a capital expenditure program, such as the allocation of funds, selection of projects and a "[p]roposed 25 Year Program of General Fund Public Improvements. The second part of the report details an improvement program for the water and sanitary sewer systems. The appendix at the end of the report includes 17 tables providing empiric… more
Date: February 1945
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

Sash

Description: Wide sash of red-brown, ivory, and indigo blue cotton. Backstrap loomed cotton warp faced plain weave with warp ikat design with diamonds in the center and linear, repeating pattern on either side. Hand twisted and knotted fringe. Approx 11" wide.
Date: 1940/1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Hat

Description: Hat from wedding ensemble. E) Wedding hat of lace matching dress. Flat crown with rolled edges. Trimmed in tulle net and ivory velvet bows on top of crown with two wide streamers down back. Lined in netting with elastic band for securing hat to wearer's head. Retailer's label on inside hatband: "Neiman-Marcus Co." Style tag attached to retailer's label: "EJ / 104597"
Date: 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Hat

Description: Hat of navy blue straw cloth. Veil and white flowers decorate upturned brim edged in navy grosgrain. Asymmetrical brim wider at front ends with almost no brim in back. Hatband of navy velvet ribbon forms bow at back left. Two hatpins with navy, cloth covered heads. Elastic band for securing hat to wearer's head. Unlined. Retailer's label on inside hatband: "Neiman-Marcus / Dallas"
Date: 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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