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[TXSSAR members in costume at DAR event]

Description: Photograph of Jerry Cope, Dan Hamilton, Ned Myers and an unidentified member of the TXSSAR at a DAR Lucretia Council Cochran chapter event. They are all in costume, standing side by side and smiling at the camera.
Date: February 15, 2020
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[TXSSAR members perform Color Guard ceremony at DAR meeting]

Description: Video of the TXSSAR Color Guard performing at a DAR Lucretia Council Cochran chapter meeting. They are walking through the room with flags, while DAR members stand at tables with their hands over their hearts.
Date: February 15, 2020
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Copes and a compatriot at Emerald Hills Memorial Park]

Description: Photograph of Jerry Cope, Marshall, Cope, and another compatriot crouched down at Carl R. Holland's grave. They were taking part in the 'Wreaths Across America' program, in which SAR members place holiday wreathes at the graves of SAR members who have passed. They were present at Emerald Hills Memorial Park in Kennedale, TX.
Date: December 15, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[SAR Youth Awards Brochure, 2018]

Description: A document about upcoming contests available to local students and members of CAR in Arlington, Texas. There are six separate contests, four of which are open to any children and two that are reserved for members of JROTC/ROTC or the Eagle Scouts.
Date: August 15, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Arlington Chapter members with attendees]

Description: Photograph of members from the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter and attendees at the DAR-SAR Lineage Fair event. Jerry Cope, who is in uniform, and John Anderson are holding onto a model revolutionary rifle with three attendees of the event.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Group gathered for Lineage Fair]

Description: Photograph of attendees at a DAR-SAR Lineage Fair event. Attendees are gathered in the center of the room and there are tables and other attendees are sitting around them.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Carlos Puente and Maria Esther Puente, March 15, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Carlos Puente and Maria Esther Puente, Fort Worth-based Chicano political activists. They discuss the Raza Unida Party in Tarrant County and throughout Texas; efforts to improve the economic, social and political aspects of the Chicano community; Carlos Puente's service on Fort Worth City Council; Roadblocks Mexican-Americans faced in campaigning and running for political office, city council and school board, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s; Challenges of he… more
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Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Martinez, Peter C.; Puente, Carlos (Activist) & Puente, Maria Esther (Activist)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen

Description: In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another baker’s dozen line-of-duty deaths that occurred between 1910 and 1928. Not counting the two officers who died of natural causes, these are more tales of murder, mayhem, and dirty work from all branches of local law enforcement: polic… more
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Date: October 15, 2011
Creator: Selcer, Richard F. & Foster, Kevin S.
Partner: UNT Press

Fort Worth Characters

Description: Fort Worth history is far more than the handful of familiar names that every true-blue Fort Worther hears growing up: leaders such as Amon Carter, B. B. Paddock, J. Frank Norris, and William McDonald. Their names are indexed in the history books for ready reference. But the drama that is Fort Worth history contains other, less famous characters who played important roles, like Judge James Swayne, Madam Mary Porter, and Marshal Sam Farmer: well known enough in their day but since forgotten. Othe… more
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Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Selcer, Richard F.
Partner: UNT Press

Oral History Interview with James Gayle, July 15, 2006

Description: Interview with African American North Texas State University alumnus James Gayle. The interview included Gayle's personal experiences of childhood, playing basketball at Fort Worth's all-black Terrell High School, attending North Texas and enrolling in the ROTC program, and his experience as a boarder in "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton. Gayle talks about the comparison of race relations in Artesia, New Mexico, and Waco and Forth Worth, Texas, the "neutral" stance of NT administration toward… more
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Date: July 15, 2006
Creator: Cervantez, Brian & Gayle, James
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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