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[Lipton tea factory production lines]

Description: Photograph of the Lipton tea factory in Galveston, Texas, and the workers on the production assembly line. The woman in the foreground is setting up the production line with the lipton boxes, the two women in the back are packaging the lipton boxes in larger boxes for shipment.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Braniff telephone operators]

Description: Photograph of telephone operators and secretaries within Braniff Airways, located in Dallas, Texas. Many of the women are seen wearing headsets, taking notes or conversing with other employees within the facility.
Date: [1955,1960]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lipton workers packaging tea boxes]

Description: Photograph of Lipton tea workers in the tea factory in Galveston, Texas. Two women in the foreground can be seen holding Lipton tea boxes and putting them into larger boxes to be shipped out. Other workers can be seen around the facility doing their own portion of the production line job.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cameraman slugged by irate garageman]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a newsman getting into a scuffle with a parking garage worker.
Date: November 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro boy drowns in Dallas pond]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a thirteen-year-old boy drowning in a small lake east of Fair Park in Dallas.
Date: April 28, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Drowning]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the accidental drowning of Curtis Burns and the suicidal drowning of Albert Roach.
Date: May 1, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Man killed in train-truck crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about R. E. Darby dying instantly after his truck collided with a Santa Fe freight train.
Date: April 7, 1955
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Electric shock is fatal to worker]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an electric shock from a drill killing an employee of an air-conditioning company.
Date: May 13, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Glass freight car shows load shifts]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a plexiglass freight car used by the Santa Fe railroad company in Dallas to demonstrate to its workers how loads inside rail cars shift.
Date: February 17, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Building collapses in downtown Dallas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a two-story brick building in downtown Dallas collapsing and killing two men and injuring eight others on Elm street.
Date: June 1, 1955
Duration: 4 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Building]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the wreckage of a building collapse in Dallas finally being fully cleared away.
Date: June 3, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas railway and terminal]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas Railway and Terminal company union and management signing a new two-year contract that would raise workers' wages from $1.66 an hour to $2.
Date: June 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: GM workers await midnight deadline]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about GM workers negotiating contracts in the wake of strike threats.
Date: June 12, 1955
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pretty secretary wins $200 prize]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas secretary Terry Armstrong winning a $200 award for being selected as a finalist in the National Blank Books Company's contest to find America's prettiest office worker.
Date: June 24, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Paper strike]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the CIO United paper workers union going on strike to demand better wages.
Date: July 5, 1955
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Courthouse annex]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new annex building for the overcrowded Dallas County Court system.
Date: July 15, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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