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[Wedding Portrait of Hester M. Beck]

Description: Photograph of Hester M. Beck in her wedding gown, a long-sleeved satin dress. She is also wearing a long veil and is holding a bouquet in one of her hands. She married John Todd Willis, Jr. at the Austin Avenue Methodist Church of Waco.
Date: 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Johnie Louise Bruyere]

Description: Photograph of Johnie Louise Bruyere walking down Austin Avenue in Waco in summer 1936. She wears a dark polka-dot dress with a white ribbon at the neck, a white hat with a dark ribbon, and white shoes. There are cars parked on the street to the left of her, and several men walk past and behind her.
Date: [1936-05..1936-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Clara Evans' Wedding Journal]

Description: Journal belonging to Clara Evans detailing her relationship with John T. Willis, Sr., from their first meeting to their wedding. Newspaper announcements, wedding invitations, fabric samples from Clara Evans' bridal trousseau, pressed flowers, and photographs have been pasted into the book, along with descriptions of important events written by Clara Evans. It also contains articles pertaining to the Willises' Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1967.
Date: 1917/1967
Creator: Willis, Nannie Clara Evans
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Location: 31.554850009752382 -97.15775699999995
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Perry, Cornelius Doctor & Wosnig, Walter, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Postcard of Soldiers Prepared for Inspection]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of soldiers standing outside of their tents at attention awaiting inspection in Camp MacArthur in Waco, Texas with a handwritten message on the back about the multitude of tents and streets in that camp. It states that there are eight men in a tent. There are cots in front of the tents with folded clothing and boots resting on the cots.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Flack Family Picture]

Description: Photograph of Flack family at their home in McGregor, Texas in June 1917. The photograph reads, "Mother Mrs. C.S. Flack, Ruth Flack, Milton Flack, Al Flack, Willie Flack. Husband and Father of Children Peter J. Flack deceased 9-10-1899."
Date: June 1917
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midwestern State University

Man by Service Station

Description: Copy negative of Scott Lavette Seastrunk standing in front of a service station at 308 Dallas Street, Waco, Texas. The signage around the station reads "Road Information", "Tire Service", "Ladies Rest Room", "Drive In", "Quaker State Motor Oil", "Motor Oil Red Hat Gasoline", "Pennzoil" and "Mobil oil".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[News Script: Miss Texas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a Texas Christian university student who was representing Houston won the preliminary swimsuit competition at the Miss Texas Pageant .
Date: July 12, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Miss Texas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two Houston girls who won the second night of preliminary competition in the Miss Texas pageant.
Date: July 12, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Trousers-Guard

Description: Patent for a metal guard worn around the ankle. The guard maintains the shape of the trousers when worn and keeps the material from coming in contact with the wearer's legs.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Hardy, James H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fiber Unwinder and Mixer.

Description: Patent for a fiber unwinder and mixer meant to pick apart, unroll, and mix lint-cotton or other similar material. It then presses the lint-cotton into cylindrical bales "in order to restore the cotton or similar material in such bales to the loose condition requisite for the usual process of manufacture in mills, and to mix different grades of cotton or like fibrous material, when desired" (lines 17-22).
Date: July 30, 1895
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Overall-Waist

Description: Patent for connections between union overalls and coat (waist). This invention enables a close overlap between trousers and coat, "to avoid all loose or flying portions of the garment which might otherwise impede or obstruct the free use of arms of the wearer or catch in machinery" (p.1 lines 51 to 55) etc.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Elliott, Joseph S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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