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Neiman Marcus Collection Scrapbook: Volume 1, 1905-1948

Description: Album containing catalog entries for items in the Texas Fashion Collection including a photograph of the item and text describing information known about the designer and manufacture date, provenance, and physical descriptions of the items.
Date: 1937/1948
Creator: Texas Fashion Collection
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Neiman Marcus Collection Scrapbook: Volume 2, 1948-1952

Description: Album containing catalog entries for items in the Texas Fashion Collection including a photograph of the item and text describing information known about the designer and manufacture date, provenance, and physical descriptions of the items.
Date: 1948/1952
Creator: Texas Fashion Collection
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Neiman Marcus Collection Scrapbook: Volume 3, 1953-1956

Description: Album containing catalog entries for items in the Texas Fashion Collection including a photograph of the item and text describing information known about the designer and manufacture date, provenance, and physical descriptions of the items.
Date: 1953/1956
Creator: Texas Fashion Collection
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Neiman Marcus Collection Scrapbook: Volume 4, 1956-1959

Description: Album containing catalog entries for items in the Texas Fashion Collection including a photograph of the item and text describing information known about the designer and manufacture date, provenance, and physical descriptions of the items.
Date: 1956/1959
Creator: Texas Fashion Collection
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Scrapbook 3

Description: Scrapbook of materials related to designer Lilli Wollf. Includes sketches by Wolff, and photographs of women wearing her designs. Includes 2 photographs of Miss America 1952 (Colleen Kay Hutchins) wearing Lilli Wolff gowns. One sketch has attached sample of lace. Shipton?
Date: 1950/1968
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Cinema de la vie

Description: The 2008 collection from the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS.
Date: 2008
Creator: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Scrapbook 1

Description: Scrapbook Photographs of Wedding couple; Sketch of a bathing suit with metal embellishments; Lilli Wolff showing a dress; Festival costumes(?)
Date: 1930/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Scrapbook 2

Description: Scrapbook Includes newspaper clipping from Dallas Morning News dated May 1, 1955, showing Mrs. Dan Williams in a gown by Lilly Wolff.; article dated January 12, 1994 about East Texas students learning about the Holocaust, mentioning Lilly Wolff, and Mati and Claus Driessen; article dated June 8, 1961 about the McGown-Jones wedding, with photograph of bride in Lilly Wolff dress. An undated clipping with photo captioned "A Proud Mrs. H. L. Hunt with here debutante granddaughters, Libby Hunt at… more
Date: 1955/1994
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Communication Skills for the 21st Century

Description: Coursebook developed for pre-intermediate to intermediate English language learners. The course focuses on improving students' reading, listening and speaking skills. There is a focus on teaching discreet skills such as main idea, supporting details, making inferences, identifying referents and using context clues while reading. Specific speaking strategies are taught to improve fluency. Academic vocabulary is taught explicitly and implicitly.  Book A topics: sleep, fashion, historical figure… more
Date: 2022
Creator: Geary, Shannon
Partner: University of North Texas

Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man

Description: Frank Reaugh (1860–1945; pronounced “Ray”) was called “the Dean of Texas artists” for good reason. His pastels documented the wide-open spaces of the West as they were vanishing in the late nineteenth century, and his plein air techniques influenced generations of artists. His students include a “Who’s Who” of twentieth-century Texas painters: Alexandre Hogue, Reveau Bassett, and Lucretia Coke, among others. He was an advocate of painting by observation, and encouraged his students to do the sa… more
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Date: August 2016
Creator: Grauer, Michael
Partner: UNT Press

Eavesdropping on Texas History

Description: Mary L. Scheer has assembled fifteen contributors to explore special moments in Texas history. The contributors assembled for this anthology represent many of the “all stars” among Texas historians: two State Historians of Texas, two past presidents of TSHA, four current or past presidents of ETHA, two past presidents of WTHA, nine fellows of historical associations, two Fulbright Scholars, and seven award-winning authors. Each is an expert in his or her field and provided in some fashion an an… more
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Date: February 2017
Creator: Scheer, Mary L.
Partner: UNT Press
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Rice culture in the United States.

Description: Discusses varieties of rice, rice growing, and use of rice as food.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with Bob and Ada Reed Brewer, March 14, 1984

Description: Interview with Ada Reed and Bob Brewer, owners and operators of A. B. McGill and Company General Merchants. In the interview, the Brewers discuss their family backgrounds, marriage, losses on charge accounts during the Great Depression, the change from clerk-service to self-service operation of the store, the credit business, purchasing clothes at the Dallas fashion market, customer interests, changes in product lines, commercial and residential growth in the Bertram area, using direct mail and… more
Date: March 14, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Brewer, Ada Reed & Brewer, Bob
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Tumor Engineering: The Other Face of Tissue Engineering

Description: Advances in tissue engineering have been accomplished for years by employing biomimetic strategies to provide cells with aspects of their original microenvironment necessary to reconstitute a unit of both form and function for a given tissue.We believe that the most critical hallmark of cancer is loss of integration of architecture and function; thus, it stands to reason that similar strategies could be employed to understand tumor biology. In this commentary, we discuss work contributed by Fis… more
Date: March 9, 2010
Creator: Ghajar, Cyrus M & Bissell, Mina J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Always for the Underdog: Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War

Description: Louisiana’s Neutral Strip, an area of pine forests, squats between the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers on the border of East Texas. Originally a lawless buffer zone between Spain and the United States, its hardy residents formed tight-knit communities for protection and developed a reliance on self, kin, and neighbor. In the early 1900s, the timber boom sliced through the forests and disrupted these dense communities. Mill towns sprang up, and the promise of money lured land speculators, timber wor… more
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Date: December 15, 2010
Creator: LeJeune, Keagan
Partner: UNT Press

A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told

Description: Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Some see him as a hero lawman of the Wild West, whereas others see him as yet another outlaw, a pimp, and failed lawman. Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, present in A Wyatt Earp Anthology an authoritative account of his life, successes, and failures. The editors… more
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Date: August 2019
Creator: Young, Roy B.; Roberts, Gary L. & Tefertiller, Casey
Partner: UNT Press
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Economics: From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran

Description: Adam Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and established the ethical foundation for The Wealth of Nations (1776) as well as the important role played by custom and fashion in shaping behaviors and outcomes. Kendall P. Cochran believed in Smith’s emphasis on value-driven analysis and seeking solutions to major problems of the day. Cochran believed that economists moved too far in the direction of analysis free of words like ought and should and devoted his career to establishi… more
Date: January 2015
Creator: Cochran, Kendall P.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems

Description: This Report (SAP 4.2) focuses on the thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems. As defined in this Synthesis and Assessment Report, 'an ecological threshold is the point at which there is an abrupt change in an ecosystem quality, property, or phenomenon, or where small changes in one or more external conditions produce large and persistent responses in an ecosystem'.Ecological thresholds occur when external factors, positive feedbacks, or nonlinear instabilities in a system cause changes to pr… more
Date: January 2009
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Partner: UNT Libraries

Minding the Store: A Memoir

Description: Personal memoir of Stanley Marcus providing anecdotes about his life and family, and also describing his role in the Neiman Marcus department store chain, which was founded by Herbert Marcus (Stanley's father) with his younger sister and her husband, Carrie and Al Neiman. Index starts on page 373.
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Date: August 15, 2001
Creator: Marcus, Stanley, 1905-2002
Partner: UNT Press
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Description: An informational booklet regarding the Art Institute of Chicago, including photographs and various art program information.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967

Description: Interview with J. Fagg Foster, from Blue Ridge, Texas. The interview includes Foster's involvement in the Rainey controversy while he was a graduate assistant at the University of Texas, 1944-45.
Date: April 16, 1968
Creator: Cochran, Kendall & Foster, J. Fagg
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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