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[Slide ruler]

Description: Photograph of a slide rule from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. It is a wooden ruler with a metal square that can be moved to provide accurate measurements.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Collection of materials from the Byrd Photo Service]

Description: Photograph of a collection of materials used in the Byrd Photo Service that are from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. There is a wooden slide ruler, two stamps that read "PROOF" and "Byrd Photo Service 3862 So. Freeway Ft. Worth, Texas 76110 (817) 926-3993", a business card, and another stamp.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Brief History of Measurement Systems: with a Chart of the Modernized Metric System

Description: Pamphlet issued by the United States National Bureau of Standards providing an overview of the English system of measurement used in the United States and of the metric system. The internal pages of the pamphlet contain a chart labeled "The Modernized Metric System" which includes tables of common conversions and a chart of the seven base units: meter/length, kilogram/mass, second/time, ampere/electric current, kelvin/temperature, mole/amount of substance, and candela/luminous intensity, as we… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[United States National Bureau of Standards Metric Conversion Card]

Description: Conversion card issued by the United States National Bureau of Standards containing conversion information for length, area, mass (weight), volume, and temperature (exact). The front lists "Approximate Conversions to Metric Measures" and includes a continuum of temperatures at the bottom and a centimeter ruler along the right side (to 8 cm.). The back of the card lists "Approximate Conversions from Metric Measures" and includes an inch ruler along the right side (to 3 in.).
Date: May 1976
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Woman sitting next to a man in office]

Description: Photograph of a woman sitting behind a desk next to a man. The man points at the open files in front of them. On the desk there are stacks of papers, an ashtray, a telephone, a ruler, and a pen. Behind them, a typewriter and a wall decoration are visible. Both look directly into the camera.
Date: January 24, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photo of a woman in an office]

Description: Photograph of a woman in an office looking directly at the camera. She is sitting at a desk with her hands folded on top. On the desk there are open files in front of her, an ashtray, a telephone, a ruler, a pen, and stacks of papers. Behind her, a typewriter and a wall decoration are visible.
Date: January 24, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Family artifacts in an Anheuser-Busch crate]

Description: Photograph of artifacts in a crate from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. It is an Anheuser-Busch crate with St. Louis and the company that made the box printed on the side. The box is filled with family artifacts, including bags, satchels, boxes, and a ruler.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Atlas Metal Wall, 2003]

Description: Photograph of an electrical box with an "Atlas Metal Wks." sign on it. There is a shelf covered with office equipment to the right of the electrical box. A calendar hangs over the shelf, and a wooden drafting table stands underneath it. [2003, Dallas, TX]
Date: 2003
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Failure of the Warrior-Hero in Shakespeare's Political Plays

Description: The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of the warrior-hero ideal as it evolves in Shakespeare's English and Roman plays, and its ultimate failure as a standard for exemplary conduct. What this study demonstrates is that the ideal of kingship that is developed in the English histories, especially in the Second Tetralogy, and which reaches its zenith in Henry V, is quite literally overturned in three Roman plays--Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. The met… more
Date: December 1976
Creator: Ferguson, Susan French
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Sheik]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Sheik Isa Bin Sulman, the prince of Bahrain, arriving in Dallas en route to New Orleans.
Date: July 12, 1955
Duration: 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Chile]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Chile's new military rulers are reported facing opposition in the streets including pockets of snipers following take over by a military Junta of president's government.
Date: September 12, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Collection of assorted handmade crafts and materials, pressed flowers, photographs and negatives, color illustrations, and other plastic, fabric, and metal objects]

Description: Photograph of a variety of handmade crafts and materials, pressed flowers, photographs and negatives, Victorian era scrapbook color illsutrations known as "scrap," and other plastic, fabric, and metal objects from the James Flowers Collection of Ephemera Found in Returned Library Books held by UNT Special Collections.
Date: December 6, 2021
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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