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[News Script: Dallas girl seeks GI beauty crown]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Gloria Montoya, a fifteen-year-old Dallas girl who was chosen by a veterans association in Dallas to be their queen. She will represent them in the state GI Forum queen contest at Galveston.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Booklet for The Queen's Ball]

Description: Booklet for the Queen's Ball, a celebration of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen of the Year at the Texas Cotton Palace in Waco. Included in the booklet is a portrait of Her Majesty Queen of the Year, a list of members of the royal court, a program of dances and songs, a list of duchesses for Texas, and committee members.
Date: November 9, 1916
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Booklet for The Queen's Ball]

Description: Booklet for the Queen's Ball, a celebration of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen of the Year at the Texas Cotton Palace in Waco. It was held at the Cotton Palace Coliseum. Included in the booklet is a list of members of the royal court, a program of dances and songs, and a list of duchesses for Texas.
Date: November 11, 1915
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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[News Clip: Winter carnival]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the fourth annual winter carnival in Fort Worth.
Date: January 18, 1959
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mary Frances Anglin, The First Dairy Day Queen]

Description: Black and white photograph of a young woman, Mary Frances Jenkel, née Anglin, being crowned the first Dairy Day Queen, on stage at the 1954 Dairy Day in Cleveland, Texas. She is wearing a velvet coronation robe. The town mayor at the time, N.A. Walker, bestows the honor. A young boy, Jeff McClain, is standing near them is holding the crown's pillow. A sizable group of people on stage watch from behind them as the event takes place. Coronation is on the old American Legion baseball field.
Date: 1954
Partner: Cleveland Historic Society
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[News Clip: Dallas girl seeks GI beauty crown]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Gloria Montoya, a fifteen-year-old Dallas girl who was chosen by a veterans association in Dallas to be their queen. She will represent them in the state GI Forum queen contest at Galveston.
Date: July 1, 1956
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first story is about a royal ball for the students of Arlington State College, with the crowning of a student body king and queen. The second story is about a Fort Worth gathering of University of Texas alumni for an Independence Day banquet.
Date: March 6, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Coronation of Easter Queen, 1934]

Description: Black and white photograph of coronation Easter Queen Josefina Lerma and four attendants. The photo was taken in Sunday April 1, 1934 in Marfa, Texas. Josefina Lerma stands in the center wearing a crown on her head, holding a scepter in her right hand. All five girls wear a white dress and white cape with a high collar and long train. The four attendants are unknown. The photograph has 1933 written in blue ink on the front.
Date: April 1, 1934
Partner: Private Collection of Matta Family
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[News Clip: Rose festival]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the annual Rose Festival in Tyler.
Date: October 9, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: This week in review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the events of the week, including the sentencing of Wesley Allen Cox and the trial of the ICT insurance company.
Date: March 9, 1957
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[County Fair Queen Coronation]

Description: Contact print of Kendall County Fair queen MayDelle Ratliff, seated beneath a canopy as another woman leans over her left side to place a tiara on her head. A young girl is standing on the left side of the image, and on the right side, a young boy is standing near Ratliff and another woman is seated with her escort standing behind her.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hillmann, Friedrich Gustav
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[Woman Receiving Flowers at Dance]

Description: Contact print of a young woman standing on a stage, accepting a bouquet of flowers from an older man wearing a dark-colored suit. She is wearing a formal, light-colored dress with a large skirt of tiered ruffles along with elbow-length gloves; several women are seated behind her on the left side of the image, also dressed formally. On the right side of the image, a man holding a microphone is partially visible at the edge of the stage and another man is seated behind a keyboard or music stand… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Hillmann, Friedrich Gustav
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[Coronation of Queen at Kendall County Fair]

Description: Contact print of a young woman wearing a light-colored formal gown and elbow-length gloves, seated in a wicker chair on a decorative platform at the center of a stage as another young woman wearing a formal gown leans over from the right side to place a crown on her head. A young boy is seated on the platform at right and a young girl is seated at left; both are watching the coronation. Two young men who are shirtless and wearing leis, holding large palm fans are standing behind, on other sid… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Hillmann, Friedrich Gustav
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[Kendall Count Fair Queen on Throne]

Description: Contact print of a young woman wearing a light-colored formal gown, elbow-length gloves, and a long, decorative cape is seated on a decorative platform in a wicker chair with a decorative backing to look like a throne. Another woman standing at the left has just placed a crown on her head and other woman wearing formal gowns and holding small bouquets are seated in rows on either side of the platform. A young boy holding a pillow is seated on the left side of the platform and a young girl hol… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Hillmann, Friedrich Gustav
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

[County Fair Queen on Stage]

Description: Contact print of several young women wearing formal gowns and elbow-length gloves seated in a line on a stage decorated with a Hawaiian or jungle theme, including one girl in the center of the image seated in a wicker chair on a raised platform. Young men in formalwear are standing behind the girls at left and two young men who are shirtless and wearing leis are fanning the girl in the center with large palm fronds. A young girl is seated on the left side of the platform and a young boy holdi… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Hillmann, Friedrich Gustav
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library
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