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[Two women sewing]

Description: Photograph of two women sewing together. They are both sitting side by side at a sewing table, using a Singer brand sewing machine. They both have short, dark hair. The woman on the left is wearing an apron and looking at designs on a piece of paper, and showing it to the other woman. The woman on the right is looking at the paper while holding fabric under the needle of the machine. The table is covered in long pieces of fabric, boxes of thread, and pages of designs and patterns. A dark chair … more
Date: January 18, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[Letter from Alice Griffin, Matilda Dodd and Birdie McGee to Linnet Moore, November 18, 1892]

Description: Letter from Birdie McGee to Linnet Moore in which she says that her teacher's mother is ill and that they have called off school until Monday. She also spent time dressing up a pumpkin and making a doll. A class photograph was taken at her school. Matilda Dodd wrote to Linnet that Birdie's teacher was sick; that it had been very rainy; and that they are waiting to sow the wheat. Alice Griffin wrote about her family's new buggy; the cold weather; and about her improving health.
Date: November 18, 1892
Creator: Griffin, Alice; McGee, Birdie & Dodd, Matilda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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[News Clip: Sewing machine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an anonymous telephone caller informing W. E. Youwell at a sewing machine company that he had stolen a sewing machine 19 years ago, and wishes to return it.
Date: April 18, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Script: Sewing machine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an anonymous telephone caller informing W. E. Youwell at a sewing machine company that he had stolen a sewing machine 19 years ago, and wishes to return it.
Date: April 18, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wax.

Description: Patent for improving wax to be used by shoemakers consisting of gasolene [sic], rosin and pine tar. The improved wax adheres to the shoe leather and the threads making both the leather and the seams waterproof and more supple. This wax product does not blacken the hands of the shoemaker.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Vest, Harvey P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Snap Fastener

Description: Patent for a snap fastener for fastening snap buttons, hooks, and eyes. Intended to replace the need for sewing fasteners onto garments, particularly women's dresses
Date: January 18, 1921
Creator: Warrington, Samuel W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Quilting-Frame

Description: Patent for a new type of quilting frame. The improved Quilting-Frame can be used with a standard sewing machine. The device allows a sewing machine to in seams.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Cribbs, William D.
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