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[Letter from Camilla Wallace to Charles B. Moore, May 10, 1896]

Description: Letter from Camilla Wallace to Charles B. Moore in which she discusses the William Boyd family. She says she met "Auntie" and was impressed. She says that she has never known anyone else that old. She says that Mollie Moore and family are living on a coffee plantation in Mexico. She says she the fruit grown in Grand Junction, Colorado are the source of most of the funds in the valley. Camilla requests the last letter her father wrote the last day of his life that is in the possession of Char… more
Date: May 10, 1896
Creator: Wallace, Camilla
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Family on Porch]

Description: Photograph of a woman identified as Joanna Owens Wright. Wright sits in a rocking chair, holding her infant granddaughter on her lap and feeding her from a glass. Three other grandchildren stand around the Wright and infant. The photograph was taken near Red Hill in Claiborne County off highway 63.
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Swank old folks home dedicated]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening ceremonies for the W.H. Grove assisted living facility for the elderly in Fort Worth.
Date: November 1, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Family]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 7, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 110-year-old vet takes plane ride]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about 110-year-old veteran Walter Williams going on his first airplane ride.
Date: July 16, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Lavin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Lavin arriving in Fort Worth to help the Ambassador hotel restructure their management system to make housing more affordable for the elderly.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Involvement in Admission to Two Homes for the Aged

Description: The study reported in the thesis attempted to examine the decision-making process for the institutionalization of older people in homes for the aged. More specifically, it sought to determine who was responsible for the decisions, to discover if this responsibility was related to selected social factors, and to ascertain if it affected the adjustment of older people to the institutional setting.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Howze, Glenn Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Expectations and Attitudes of a Group of Older Persons towards Institutional Living

Description: The study reported in this thesis attempted to determine some of the effects of institutional living on a group of elderly people. The study endeavored to discover whether any changes took place between the expectations of the persons planning to enter a home for the aged and the opinions of the same persons after they had lived in the home.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Murdock, John A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Aged First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide a descriptive study of psychiatric and social variables related to aged first admissions to a private psychiatric hospital in the calendar years 1959 through 1963. The study also seeks to determine what, if any, relationship exists between background characteristics of the patients and their diagnoses. Finally, the diagnosis of the patient is compared with a series of patient outcome variables to determine the relationship, if any, between diagnosis and … more
Date: January 1968
Creator: Smith, Joseph Clair
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Aunt China & Uncle Harv]

Description: Aunt China & Uncle Harv Joe Clark, HBSS, 1941 Cumberland Gap, Tennessee pictures that tell a story China and Harv spent their lives together in this two room log cabin. No electricity. No Central Heat. No indoor plumbing, but all together they had a lot. Joe Clark’s wife, Bernice, would often tell the story of her first trip outside of Michigan, her honeymoon with Joe, and the day and night they spent with Aunt China and Uncle Harv. “It was getting late and Joe and I retired to the spare room,”… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: La Muerte]

Description: Newspaper clipping describes how death is better to have as a friend. Death does not discriminate or target certain groups, only individuals. The clipping also describes and interviews members of a club only for the elderly. Updates on the development plan for Altavista are also included.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pérez, Onesimo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Castleberry Peace Institute
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[News Script: Car-train fatality]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an elderly man, G. E. Worthington, being killed by a freight train when he was driving over railroad tracks.
Date: January 28, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Walk and Paper Wright]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the need to bridge the gap between young and old as being tackled by Rotary international.
Date: February 5, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Old people receive tax break]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a proposal to give tax exemptions to senior citizens in Haltom City, Texas.
Date: September 21, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tax Exemption]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. There was an approval for the new $3,000 property exemption for the elderly over age 65 by the Tarrant County Junior College District.
Date: August 16, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Nursing Homes]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering an unknown news story. The story includes an interview with an unidentified man about doing unpaid work and footage of elderly dancers performing in costume at an assisted living facility.
Date: January 15, 1976
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Nursing home]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 25, 1977
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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