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[News Script: Arlene Francis opens home show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Star-Telegram Home Show in Fort Worth, with an appearance by television personality Arlene Francis. The show features exhibits of new kitchen appliances, along with other home fixtures and furniture.
Date: May 9, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Arlene Francis opens home show]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual Star-Telegram Home Show in Fort Worth, with an appearance by television personality Arlene Francis. The show features exhibits of new kitchen appliances, along with other home fixtures and furniture.
Date: May 9, 1954
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fad]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an art exhibition in New York that feature furniture created by artists.
Date: September 9, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Thaine Engle on set]

Description: Photograph of Thaine Engel (left) and another man (right) sitting at a desk on a television set. They both have microphones sitting in front of them and are wearing light colored suits. A man is visible in the right foreground near a Star-Telegram camera.
Date: June 9, 1952
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Machine for Tufting Mattresses.

Description: Patent for a machine for tufting mattresses "whereby the tufts or washers are periodically fed to and affixed upon the feed-wheels between which the mattresses is intermittently advanced and compressed, said tufts being placed upon the mattress by the periodical fractional revolution of the feed-wheels and secured by stitching the entire transverse series of tufts by the automatic action of a series of needles, and a lower corresponding series of knotter-heads and devices co-operating therewith… more
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Stephenson, Edwin N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Light-Reflecting Device.

Description: Patent for a simple and portable light reflecting device designed to be placed on top of a piano, organ, or other musical instrument. The device is designed to amplify light from a lamp or other lighting device and reflect it downward and backward onto an instrument's music board. The device also shades the eyes of a performer and allows music to be read without straining the eyes.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Schelb, Peter Jay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Screen Attachment

Description: Patent for window and door screens to prevent the entrance of insects inside and prevents the escape of those already inside, which inevitably collect on the inside of the screen.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Simons, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan and Motoro Therefor.

Description: Patent for a motor-propelled fan that can attach to any support, especially beds steads and other furniture. The motor is simple and can be easily manipulated.
Date: May 9, 1893
Creator: Sneckner, George A. & Roth, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Cloud, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Davenport.

Description: Patent for a davenport, which can be used as wardrobe, settee, or bed that includes a wider bed, extensions for head and foot rests, and a larger wardrobe door than previous models.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Hartshorn, Guy C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Desk Attachment for Chairs

Description: Patent for a desk attachment for beds or chairs for which any seated article of furniture can be turned into a desk and adjusted forward or vertically for comfort.
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Hutton, Milton C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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