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[News Script: Irving]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Mrs. Clifford Irving ending her two-month jail sentence for her part in the Howard Hughes biography hoax.
Date: August 18, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Biographical information on speakers]

Description: A few pages containing biographical information on the speakers featured at a Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters event honoring notable African American men and women and their accomplishments. The men and women included are, Pearl C. Anderson, Rev. C. A. W. Clark, Comer Cottrell, Joe Kirven, Louis A. Bedford, Jr., and Pettis Worman's whose name has been crossed out.
Date: 1987
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Brochure: Gallery of Greats]

Description: Brochure providing details on the Gallery of Greats event which featured a collection of portraits. The event was hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters on May 2, 1991 and co-sponsored by the Miller Brewing Company. The brochure also gives biographies of notable African Americans being honored by the event.
Date: 1991
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photo of Charlie Francis holding a folder]

Description: Photograph of Charles Inge Francis, the great uncle of Charles C. Francis and NTSU regent, standing in an office space with a Gothic cathedral painting on the wall behind him and a folder or papers in his hand. On the back is a handwritten note that reads "To J. R. Harris my nephew, Sincerely, Charles I. Francis 2-24-69". Beneath that note is a long three paragraph biography of Charles Inge Francis.
Date: February 24, 1969
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fonda, Jane]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 19, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Lord Tennyson Dead]

Description: Newspaper clipping about the death of Lord Alfred Tennyson including biographical information and an account of his death on October 6, 1892 in London. The reverse contains a partial "Farm and Garden" section with reprints from agricultural publications on how to build a sliding farm gate and mud sled, as well as information about feeding horses, pruning trees, docking horses' tails, and the start of a segment on growing mushrooms in caves.
Date: October 13, 1892
Creator: St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Otto Wettstein]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a biographical article about Otto Wettstein, a jeweler. The article discusses several pieces of specialty jewelry that Wettstein had designed as well as his other interests. The reverse contains snippets of other articles including one about a terrier that killed nearly 50 expensive birds, part of an article regarding a mining company expedition, and updates on the stock exchange.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Literature: an illustrated Weekly Magazine, Volume 1, Number 31, September 22, 1888

Description: Weekly literary magazine that contains articles and excerpts on various topics as well as advertisements; according the to the cover, it includes "Criticism, Biography, News, [and] Selected Readings." Contents for this issue: Paul Hamilton Hayne. With portrait; Poems by Paul H. Hayne: The Solitary Lake, Krishna and His Three Handmaidens, Lyric of Action, Hopes and Memories, The Spirea, Bryant Dead, The Supreme Hour, The Woodland Phases, Soul-Advances, The Poet's Mind; Davidson's "Poetry of t… more
Date: September 22, 1888
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Literature: an illustrated Weekly Magazine, Volume 1, Number 20, July 7, 1888

Description: Weekly literary magazine that contains articles and excerpts on various topics as well as advertisements; according the to the cover, it includes "Criticism, Biography, News, [and] Selected Readings." Contents for this issue: Maurice Thompson at Home, Selections from A Fortnight of Folly, and Sylvan Secrets in Bird-Songs and Books.
Date: July 7, 1888
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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