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Oral History Interview with Ignaz Gorischek, August 17, 2020

Description: Interview with Ignaz Gorischek, a fashion consultant from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Gorischek discusses his forty years of work in the department store industry, specifically in luxury retail, opening stores and putting on exhibits with Neiman Marcus, leaving Neiman's to work at a design firm in Dallas, and working with students at the University of North Texas.
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Date: August 17, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Gorischek, Ignaz
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-Up Book]

Description: Photographs of Lewis Carrol's " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-Up Book," held by UNT Special Collections. The cover of the book is an illustration of Alice, a young blonde girl in a white dress standing on yellow ground. Behind her are characters in fancy clothes, the sky a pale blue at the top. The title of the book is in a white banner at the top. Image 2, pop-up of the whole Alice goes down composed of thin swirled paper. This is on a page titled "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: D… more
Date: March 2, 2020
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Magic Windows: An Antique Revolving Picture Book]

Description: Photographs of "Magic Windows: An Antique Revolving Picture Book" by Ernest Nister, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover of the book is pale pink with the top and sides made to look like folded curtains. In the middle is a circle with an illustration on the inside of 3 young children looking out of an open window. The main title is at the top and the subtitle at the bottom. Image 2, "Three Little Kittens" poem with three sketches of cats on each side of it. The right page contains a circ… more
Date: March 2, 2020
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Occupational gender segregation and economic growth in United States local labor markets, 1980 through 2010

Description: This article explores the barrier that gender segregation posses to the exchange of diverse ideas between women and men workers in the United States. The author uses fixed effects regression models to examine the relationship between labor market levels of segregation and economic growth from 1980 and 2010. Results from this study suggest that gender equity is a vital ingredient in the economic development of local United States labor markets.
Date: January 14, 2020
Creator: Scarborough, William J.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Oral History Interview with Dennie Wolf, September 9, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dennie Wolf, co-author of chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. This interview includes discussion of postpartum depression, the women’s health movement, second wave feminism, and development psychology. The interview is part of the postpartum depression project.
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Date: September 9, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Wolf, Dennie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kirk Teske, April 30, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with architect Kirk Teske discussing his experience designing buildings, the shift toward sustainable building and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, and the connection between design and health.
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Date: April 30, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Teske, Kirk
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Randy Loftis, March 27, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Randy Loftis, an environmental journalist and lecturer at UNT, discussing how he became involved with covering the environment -- starting with issues in the Everglades -- and how it has affected his perspective on journalism.
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Date: March 27, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Loftis, Randy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Multiple photograph frame of Pride parade]

Description: Photograph of a multi-photo frame with pictures of Lory Masters and other unidentified individuals attending and celebrating in a Pride Day Parade. In the top corner Lory Masters can be seen riding in a convertible with an unidentified man. In other photographs Masters can be seen with a medal around her neck, standing in front of a microphone and delivering a speech to the audience.
Date: March 26, 2019
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Words and Pictures: Vernon Fisher, 1980-2019

Description: Words and Pictures is an exhibition and catalogue of paintings and sculptures by Texas artist Vernon Fisher, dated 1980 to 2019. Curator Tracee Robertson and critic Dave Hickey explore themes and methods in Fisher’s art. Fisher came of age in the twentieth century, characterized as the bloodiest and most brutal century in history. Like many artists of his era, including poets and writers who inspire him, Fisher explores what it means to be lost in the face of indifference. His art is a personal… more
Date: 2019
Creator: Robertson, Tracee W.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Janet St. James Article

Description: This article is a short biography of former TV journalist Janet St. James describing her career, including her work reporting on the Oklahoma City Bombing and covering police and medical stories in Dallas. It also highlights some aspects of St. James' life and her thoughts about journalism.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burns, Brady; Owens, Brittany; Reyes, Blanca & Maxwell, Bailey
Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

[David Hockney, Paper Pools]

Description: Photographs of an illustration in "Paper Pools" held by UNT Special Collections. The illustration of a mermaid with a white tail in a swimming pool expands over two pages. There is a tan diving board on the left with its shadow in the water, and the mermaid on the right. Image 2, the cover of "Paper Pools." It is light grey with an illustration of a mermaid in a swimming pool covering most of the front, the title at the top. The name of the author is in black and the title in white. This is the… more
Date: November 27, 2017
Creator: Sylve, Joshua & Merrill, Jeffery
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Protests in China: Why and Which Chinese People Go to the Street?

Description: This research seeks to answer why and which Chinese people go to the street to protest. I argue that different sectors of Chinese society differ from each other regarding their tendencies to participate in protest. In addition to their grievances, the incentives to participate in protest and their capacities to overcome the collective action problem all needed to be taken into account. Using individual level data along with ordinary binary logistic regression and multilevel logistic regression … more
Date: May 2017
Creator: Chen, Yen-Hsin
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Legendary Ladies of Texas

Description: Collection of historical anecdotes providing "a study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them" (back cover). The index begins on page 225.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press
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[Oral History Article: Becky Diaz]

Description: This article is a short biography of journalist Becky Diaz, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.
Date: December 5, 2016
Creator: Unogwu, Rita; Cardena, Luissana & Russell, Jasmine
Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

[The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke" by Rupert Brooke, held by UNT Special Collections. The simple black book has the title in a white box at the top, framed by an orange line. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was the son of a Rugby schoolmaster and attended school at Rugby and later at King’s College of Cambridge University. After completing his education, Brooke continued writing poetry and became one of the founders of the first anthology of Georgian Poetry. Now little … more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Byrd Photo Service pens]

Description: Photograph of a selection of pens advertising the Byrd Photo Service, Inc. from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. They are silver pens with the name and address of the old Byrd Photo Service storefront listed on the side. There is a diamond detail under the clip in red and blue.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Rolled film artifacts]

Description: Photograph of rolled film cartridges from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. There are samples from the Kodak and Isopan film companies. They are in different cases with the colors lime green, hot pink, yellow, blue, and bright red.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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