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The runaway

Description: Little Julia, resident of New York City, is taken to see her uncle's farm. Exposed to fields, animals, and the open spaces, she regrets having to return to the city. Back home, she wants to run away and return to her uncle's farm. Against her mother's orders, she does run away one day, but is found and brought home, and learns never to disobey her mother again.
Date: 1857~
Creator: Committee of Publication of the American Sunday School Union.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

About New York with O. Henry

Description: Article excerpted from a literature magazine providing a description of the places in New York that O. Henry used as settings for many of his short stories. The article is illustrated with photographs.
Date: September 1913
Creator: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Glass Slide of a Comic Cartoon

Description: A glass slide showing a cartoon of two young boys in a homemade wooden tank trying to push over a small tree. The caption is "What's teh use of having a tank if you can't push over trees and things the way a regular one does?" The cartoon was drawn by Fontaine Fox and has the following copyright: "Copyrighted. Reproduced by permission of the Wheeler Syndicate." The slide frame reads, "Community Motion Picture Bureau, NY."
Date: [1882..1929]
Creator: Fox, Fontaine Talbot
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter to J. B. Alden]

Description: This is a correspondence from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is a letter to J. B. Alden discussing the purchase of encyclopedia. The person sending the letter is Charles B. Moore. The second part of this correspondence is a genealogical study about the children of John and Matilda Wallace. This study details names, birth dates, and additional information about an infant who passed away.
Date: unknown
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Book-of-the-Month Club to Arthur M. Alpert, 1967]

Description: Letter from James J. Fehl, Membership Director of Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., and Associated Clubs, to Arthur M. Alpert discussing a billing statement for Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. Enclosed is a statement of account dated April 28, 1967 listing the balance due on that date. Also enclosed is a balance statement dated July 12, 1966 itemizing charges for books shipped from May to August 1966, marked "Paid, 5/18/67."
Date: 1967-04~
Creator: Fehl, James J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Unsigned Macy's Book Club Card]

Description: Unsigned card for the Macy's Red Star Book Club with a description of the companies offerings is found at the bottom of the card. At the top of the unsigned identity card is a serial number that reads, "Serial No. 192397".
Date: February 29, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Letter from Brentano's Booksellers, 1952]

Description: Letter from Brentano's providing information on the latest book in a series exposing corruption in American cities and asking the recipient how many copies they would like to pre-order. A handwritten note at the top of the page suggests the order form was sent in on February 22, 1952.
Date: 1952-02?
Creator: Brentano's
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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