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Military Courtesy

Description: Graphic pamphlet about proper military courtesy, including how to salute, who to salute, how to do a rifle salute, and more.
Date: 1952
Creator: United States Army
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Velvet cap

Description: Red velvet calotte. Hat styled as a calotte (also spelled "calot"), or modified Juliet cap, with low domed crown, straight across back edge, rounded at sides, and with scalloped edge at front. Along lower edge at sides and front is double strand of black silk(?) braided rope, with matching tassels hanging between lobes of scallops. Lined in a woven gold lamé-type material. Designer's label sewn inside: "Edna Mye / Dallas"
Date: 1952
Creator: Mye, Edna
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Sparking and X-Rays in a Mercury Pumped Vacuum System (Excerpt From Quarterly Report for March, April, May, 1952 - Linac Group - UCRL-1903)

Description: Sparking: The most obvious conclusion about 200 m.c. sparking is that it follows strictly surface gradient and does not depend upon total voltage. In order to arrive at this conclusion, a quantitative means for measuring the probability of sparking had to be constructed, since it was clearly evident that the d.c. notion of sparking was inadequate.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Kilpatrick, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Full Scale Drift Tube Magnet Report

Description: Measurements were made on the full scale drift tube magnets to check values predicted from the model magnets measurements. These investigations were carried out by the magnetic measurements group.
Date: July 1952
Creator: Sewell, D. & Parmentier, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Pink Cloud Bride and Her Pink Wedding

Description: "The Pink Cloud Bride and Her Pink Wedding" is a small book of paper dolls celebrating traditional 1950s wedding fashion. The dolls on the cover are a small child and a young woman both wearing plain light pink dresses on an illustrated background of the full bridal outfits including a veil, bonnet, and flowers. The following pages include multiple uncut outfits for the guests, groom, and bride. The title and description appear in the top corners of the leaf.
Date: 1952
Creator: Campbell, Betty
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Drying Shelled Corn and Small Grain with Unheated Air

Description: This USDA leaflet provide guidance to farmers on the techniques for drying corn and small grains. Instructions are provided for mechanical means for drying, costs, ideal moisture content for the grain, and formulas for determining dried grain weights.
Date: September 1952
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coat dress

Description: A: Coat dress of gold matelassé. Calf length; flared skirt; seam at waistline; bust darts; peter pan collar. Closure of six buttons with bound buttonholes on skirt; button and snap at neckline and hook and eye at waist. 3/4 length dolman sleeves with vents and two non-functioning buttons and bound buttonholes; underarm gussets. Side slit pockets. Unlined; grosgrain petersham. Designer label: Galanos / Originals / Beverly Hills Retailer label: Neiman-Marcus B: Self-covered belt with square buck… more
Date: 1952
Creator: Galanos, James
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Catalog of North Texas State College: 1952-1953, Graduate

Description: Catalog for North Texas State College includes information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: May 1952
Creator: North Texas State College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Enid Justin and Governor Talmadge at the Georgia government convention in Houston]

Description: Photograph of Enid Justin smiling while watching Governor Talmadge put on a Nocona boot during the Georgia Government Convention in Houston. Justin is wearing a plain dress along with a hat with flowers while Talmadge is wearing a plain suit with a floral printed necktie. Talmadge is struggling to put on the boot even with another man helping him and has a strain on his face while biting his cigar.
Date: 1952
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Memorandum for insurance benefits]

Description: Memorandum for with notes that read, "Benefits. Hospitalization --- for employees their minor children (or --- husband). Profit sharing plan - life insurance - paid holidays, paid vacations (2 week) sick leave. Universal happ---."
Date: [1952..1975]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Line Dancers in a newspaper article]

Description: Photograph of Line dancers on a news article along with the caption "Swing your Partner." The dancers are wearing western attire with cowboy hats and boots. Most of the women are wearing embellished bodysuits, but two are wearing dresses; however, one of the women is not wearing a hat. There is only one man within the seven-member line dancing group and he is wearing a white cowboy suit that has a showy top with a subtle design on the pants.
Date: 1952
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Felt hat

Description: Hat in modified gob hat style of muted grayish-pink felt. High domed crown with deep upturned brim. Headband of matching grosgrain ribbon; unlined. Retailer label: Titche-Goettinger Co. / Dallas
Date: 1952
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Invention in 12 Notes

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Invention in 12 Notes.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Low Speed

Description: The work is made around tape recordings of Luening's improvisations on the flute. The flute recordings were transposed through change of tape playback speed and transformed through "tape recorder feedback".
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Date: 1952
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fantasy in Space

Description: This is another in a series of pieces Luening made by recording himself playing flute, and then while listening on earphones, taped a second flute part over the first, and so forth.
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Date: 1952
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library
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