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Chemise dress

Description: Chemise dress of peach and beige mouselaine, "flapper" dress. Sleeveless. Rounded neckline. Heavily beaded in stylized scrolling floral/fan forms of rhinestones, white/moonstone bugle beads, clear seed beads, rhinestones, and metallic thread. 3 tiers of self ruffle alternating peach, beige, peach at lower skirt.
Date: 1920/1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Reticule purse

Description: Drawstring reticule of blue silk covered with strings of cobalt glass beads with five tiers of ultramarine bead loops. Beaded tassel at bottom consisting of sphere of ultramarine beads and tassel of cobalt blue bead loops. Opening of bag edged in purple silk and lined in blue silk. Opening with doubled blue cord through five small rings of blue painted wood(?). Tag inside bag: Made in / Czecho Slovakia
Date: 1920/1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Reticule purse

Description: Reticle bag of aqua, brown and steel fine beads in geometric pattern. Twisted and looped fringe of self. Replacement drawstring closure of light brown velvet. Lined in cream-colored silk. Original beaded drawstring inside bag. No labels. Measurements: 15.5 cm from top of bag to bottom center; 14 cm across.
Date: 1920/1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Silk slip

Description: Slip of pale pink silk with pale yellow lace bodice above empire waistline; spaghetti straps of pink silk; small floral appliques on center-front lace bodice; hand-stitching throughout; below knee-length.
Date: 1920/1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Tomesode

Description: Kimono "tomesode" of black silk with small white heraldic Mon crests scattered across the upper garment. Inner lining of red silk printed with floral scape. Knee length; loops for fastening on both inside and outside. Single small label at inside collar: "Made in Japan".
Date: 1920/1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Thank You Card]

Description: A thank you card with drawings of a book, a scroll, and orange flowers. It reads: "Thank you! My deepest thanks for remembering me/When I graduated/For choosing that gift, you are the one/To be congratulated."
Date: 1920/1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[John and Byrd Williams III standing on a cliff]

Description: Photograph of John and Byrd Williams III standing on the edge of a cliff. The shadow of the photographer, Byrd Jr., appears in the image. Both boys are wearing dark coats, dark trousers, and boots. A dirt road can be seen behind them.
Date: [1920..1930]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Albert Stiles sitting on the ground with a large object]

Description: Photograph of Albert Irving Stiles sitting in the grass and posing with an object, possibly a large watermelon. He wears a brimmed hat and a white, long-sleeved shirt. Behind him, several individuals sit in the grass and some appear to be crawling around on all fours. Dense vegetation grows in the background.
Date: [1920..1930]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Main Street]

Description: Photograph of a main street showing Midland Hardware and Furniture on the left side of the street. There are automobiles in the street and along the street.
Date: [1920..1930]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Floyd Arnold "Jim" Crow and Football Team]

Description: Photograph of Floyd Arnold "Jim" Crow and a football team. The men in the first row, sitting cross legged, are, from left to right, unidentified, Ben Dean Sheats, Jack Southern, Garland Fawcett, and a man known as "Cheetah". The men in the second row are marked as Cook, Baughman, Curtis, La Grone, Marrs McLean, and Barney Hamm. Those in the last row are Jim Crow, a man known as "Deacon", Vasey, Goolachek, Mouser, Kazanas, and Lyday. Crow wears a jacket with the letter "B" on it, and Jack Southeâ€Ĥ more
Date: [1920..1930]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Two small conjoined pyramid-roofed buildings at the end of a path lined by vegetation next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course]

Description: Photograph of at two small woodframe pyramidal roofed buildings, joined with a hyphen, which sit at the end of a vegetation-lined path next to the fairway at Austin Municipal Golf Course. One building is a board and batten structure with a 4/4 window. There is a large tree to the left of the buildings, and a 1920s-era car to the left of that. A man stands to the right of the buildings near the path or road.
Date: 1920~/1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Thanksgiving Card]

Description: A Thanksgiving greeting card, not addressed or dated. It has a drawing of yellow, orange, and pink flowers and leaves. It reads: "Thanksgiving Greetings. To wish you cause for thanksgiving which lasts from year to year." "Forget-me-not" is handwritten under the message.
Date: 1920/1930~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Mamie George]

Description: Photograph of Mamie George. The photograph is inside of a brown folder. Exterior cover of folder has a thin brown border around perimeter of page. At the top, center, is a drawing of a young girl wearing a dress and hat. Printed in dark brown print near center: "A Portrait by Van Dyck Dufresne Studio Houston". In the brown-toned oval cropped portrait that ends near the waist, Mamie is wearing a striped jacket with white blouse beneath. She has her dark hair pulled up and back into a bun. Writtâ€Ĥ more
Date: [1920..1930]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Pierce-Fordyce Refinery in Texas City]

Description: A view of part of the Pierce-Fordyce Refinery. A one story brick building stands at the far left. Two horizontal cylindrical storage tanks and a raised pipeline are to the right of the building. In the rear middle of the picture, a number of men gather near a large smokestack near a two story building.
Date: [1920..1930]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

We lost our job at Mineral Wells, Texas

Description: This is a picture that was found in Mr. Weaver's collection, and captioned "We lost our job at Mineral Wells, Texas." This type of advertising was used by most of the drinking pavilions in this popular health resort to tout the beneficial effects of Mineral Wells' waters. There were numerous testimonials attesting the truth of such claims. When the Food and Drug Administration began to enforce the nation's drug laws vigorously in the mid-1930's, however, there were no rigorous scientiâ€Ĥ more
Date: 1920?/1930?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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