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[Denton County Fair]

Description: This home movie appears to document the 1938 Denton County Fair. The footage includes a horse show, a Boy Scouts exhibit, and various businesses including H.L. Peterson, Allis - Chalmers Tractors, J.L. Myers and Sons Contractors, the Legion Auxiliary, and Aristocrat Ice Cream.
Date: 1938
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Methods and Procedures in Determining a Recreation Program for the City of Denton, Texas

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent the existing Recreation Program of Denton, Texas provides for the leisure time needs of the citizens of Denton. After the existing program was surveyed, the results were compared with the standards set up by the National Recreation Association for a city the size of Denton. From a comparison of the present program and the standards, an effort was made to formulate a program that would meet the leisure time needs of the citizenship of Den… more
Date: August 1938
Creator: Bales, Marguerite
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Photograph of the Eagle Twins]

Description: Photograph of the “Eagle Twins,” consisted to two sets of twins on the men’s track team. They are Elmer Brown, Delmer Brown, Wayne Rideout and Blaine Rideout, whom set a world record in the indoor mile and seven-eighths medley relay on February 5, 1938. Their accomplishment took place at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, New York. Writing on the back of the photograph reads, "Track. Ridouts & Browns. 1938, "Eagle Twins."
Date: 1938
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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