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[News Script: Dempsey]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about boxing star Jack Dempsey, stopping over in Dallas en route to Houston to referee a fight.
Date: March 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pipes At White Rock Filter Plant]

Description: Photograph of a machine room in the White Rock filter plant. In the photograph, piping runs vertically on each side. One large pipe runs on the ceiling. Typed note on reverse: "Pipe gallery at White Rock filter plant built 1923. Photo in 1955 after reopening.
Date: 1955
Creator: Dallas (Tex.)
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

Seventh Annual Texas Crafts Exhibition

Description: Catalog from the juried "7th Annual Texas Crafts Exhibition," November 27–December 18, 1955, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of prizes and awards, list of artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1955
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Six Centuries of Headdress

Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "Six Centuries of Headdress," April 3–May 1, 1955, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts to parallel the Bal aux Chapeau sponsored by the Dallas Fashion Group. Includes: list of artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1955
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

[News Script: Sid Caesar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival in Dallas of television actor Sid Caesar, on his way to San Antonio.
Date: March 30, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Talmadge defends school segregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former governor of Georgia and outspoken white supremacist Herman Talmadge visiting Dallas and speaking out in favor of segregation.
Date: March 30, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Barbershop singers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about barbershop singers gathering for a show at the State Fair auditorium in Dallas.
Date: March 31, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Ralph Yarborough to Hector P. Garcia - 1955-04-19]

Description: Letter from Ralph Yarborough explaining to Dr. Hector P. Garcia a Democratic publication in the Dallas area called The White Rocker and the need for pro-Democratic writings and Spanish-language publications. Yarborough asks Garcia to explore possibilities for such in the Corpus Christi area, Nueces County, or other areas of Texas. The letter was also sent to some other publishers of Spanish-language newspapers in the state.
Date: April 19, 1955
Creator: Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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[Hill Family Films, No. 7 - Air Shows]

Description: This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family attending the National Model Airplane Championship at the Naval Air Station in Dallas, Texas in 1956 and an Air Show of full sized air craft at Hensley Field (later Naval Air Station Dallas and Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex) on May 22, 1955.
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Partner: UNT Media Library

[T&P Trains Leaving Dallas]

Description: Photograph of a clipping from T&P Topics December 1955 issue. Pictured are six T&P trains leaving Dallas for the 1935 Rose Bowl game. Written below the image are "[sic] One of the biggest and longest passenger movements of the T&P took place when 9 special trains ran out of Dallas to the Rose Bowl in California carrying 2000 S.M.U. Mustang supporters. The T&P ran 6 of the 9 trains. All were 900 series locomotives Two had feedwater heaters. They are (L-R) #'s 909, 900, 908, 901, 907, and 905. Th… more
Date: December 1955
Partner: The Grace Museum
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