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[Women Sewing]

Description: Photograph of a woman seated and working at a sewing machine while another woman stands next to her and leans over to help or teach her. Another woman stands behind them. A purse and some papers are on a table in the foreground.
Date: November 21, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864]

Description: Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara telling her that he is sending food, candy, and cloth. He requests that she sew the cloth into drawers and send them back to him. He states his salary will be $110 per month. He then lists his expenses. He tells Clara he has had Yellow Fever. He requests cotton socks. He ends by regretting not being able to spend Christmas with his family.
Date: December 21, 1864
Creator: Fentress, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864]

Description: Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara telling her that he is sending food, candy, and cloth. He requests that she sew the cloth into drawers and send them back to him. He states his salary will be $110 per month. He then lists his expenses. He tells Clara he has had Yellow Fever. He requests cotton socks. He ends by regretting not being able to spend Christmas with his family.
Date: December 21, 1864
Creator: Fentress, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clips from "A Flowering of Their Souls" quilting conference]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the quilting conference "A Flowering of Their Souls: Eight African American Women Quilt Makers and Their Quilts". The footage shows compiled clips from the event including artist talks, panels, workshops and demos.
Date: July 21, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 29 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clips from "A Flowering of Their Souls" quilting conference, 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the quilting conference "A Flowering of Their Souls: Eight African American Women Quilt Makers and Their Quilts". The footage shows compiled clips from the event including artist talks, panels, workshops and demos.
Date: July 21, 2001
Duration: 51 minutes 13 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Thimble.

Description: Patent for an improved design of thimble which includes a needle-threader and a thread-cutter that can be used without removal of the thimble from the finger through the design of metal cone shapes as part of the thimble's design.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Huntington, Spencer Hinsdale
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Button.

Description: Patent for a button that can fit in any buttonhole. It is "a bar having a button or know affixed thereto and having key-hole-slots, of a button attached to an arm having a tongue and a contracted offset portion adjacent thereto and between the same and the button carried thereby, the said tongue being of a thickness substantially the same as the width of the slot" (lines 55-62).
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Burroughs, John J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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