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[Photos in the Byrd family photo album]

Description: Photograph of pictures in a photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. There are eight pictures on the two pages it is opened to. They are printed in an oval shape and there are slots underneath the cut-out to slide the print into place.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Maroon cover on the Byrd family photo album]

Description: Photograph of a family photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is a cracking red leather with a golden border around stamped designs and a golden knight's helmet in the center. The binding is held together by a maroon chord that is tied in a knot.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Passion Settings of the 20th- and 21st- Centuries Focusing on Craig Hella Johnson's Considering Matthew Shepard

Description: Craig Hella Johnson (b. 1963) has emerged as a leader in choral music over the last 20 years. As the conductor of the Austin, TX based chorus Conspirare Johnson implemented the European model of bringing singers together from all over the country to assemble for concerts and recordings over a short period of time. He is known for his collage programs which bring together many styles of music bound by a central theme. Through these programs he has written and arranged many pieces which are now p… more
Date: August 2016
Creator: Ward, Robert (Robert Clark)
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Cover of the Byrd family photo album]

Description: Photograph of a photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. Its cover is detailed with leaves and vines done in metallic colors and a red bird is highlighted by a rectangle of yellow overlay. There are designs on each corner to strengthen the material and the spine edges are fraying slightly.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Close up of photos in the Byrd family photo album]

Description: Photograph of pictures in a photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. There are four pictures on the page it is opened to. They are printed in an oval shape and there are slots underneath the cut-out to slide the print into place.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Spine of Byrd family photo album]

Description: Photograph of a photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. The spine has a ribbon detail on it and the word "Album" stamped in gold lettering There is also tape around the corners of the spine, holding the material together where it is fraying.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Top of Byrd family photo album]

Description: Photograph of a photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. Its cover is detailed with leaves and vines done in metallic colors and a red bird is highlighted by a rectangle of yellow overlay. There are designs on each corner to strengthen the material and the spine edges are fraying slightly and have tape over them. The interior pages that hold pictures are visible from the top along with their binding.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Composing Symbolism's Musicality of Language in Fin-de-siècle France

Description: In this dissertation, I explore the musical prosody of the literary symbolists and the influence of this prosody on fin-de-siècle French music. Contrary to previous categorizations of music as symbolist based on a characteristic "sound," I argue that symbolist aesthetics demonstrably influenced musical construction and reception. My scholarship reveals that symbolist musical works across genres share an approach to composition rooted in the symbolist concept of musicality of language, a concept… more
Date: August 2016
Creator: Varvir Coe, Megan Elizabeth, 1982-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Mujeres Sumisas, Mujeres Transgresoras en el Siglo XIX Español: una Aproximación a la Obra de Francisca Navarro y Joaquina García Balmaseda

Description: This research discusses the changing role of women in Spanish society during the nineteenth century through the works of Francisca Navarro and Joaquina Garcia Balmaseda. The thesis shows the break with the traditional image of the "angel del hogar" and the gradual incorporation of the social changes affecting women which were reflected in the female protagonists of the comedies written by such playwrights. By reading theoretical texts of the emerging feminist theory and through analysis of the … more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Zaera, Isabel María
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Pile of leather wallets]

Description: Photograph of a couple of wallets from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. Most are a brown leather with one in black. They are piled on top of each other and the one on top standing up is stamped with a pattern and has leather lacing around its border.
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Walling Family of Nineteenth-Century Texas: An Examination of Movement and Opportunity on the Texas Frontier

Description: The Walling Family of Nineteenth-Century Texas recounts the actions of the first four generations of the John Walling family. Through a heavily quantitative study, the study focuses on the patterns of movement, service, and seizing opportunity demonstrated by the family as they took full advantage of the benefits of frontier expansion in the Old South and particularly Texas. In doing so, it chronicles the role of a relatively unknown family in many of the most defining events of the nineteenth-… more
Date: December 2016
Creator: Cure, Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Picture in a photo album]

Description: A photograph of a boy in a photo album from the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection, held by UNT Special Collections. The picture is printed on a white card in an oval shape and the card is attached to a black rectangle in the middle of the page. The page itself is torn at the top corner.
Date: July 20, 2016
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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