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[Smith Family Films, No. 5 - Summer Camp]

Description: This home movie documents a family's daily lives and activities including their annual attendance of Camp Fire summer camp at Camp Val Verde in Waco, Texas. Footage includes people riding in a jeep, women in white uniforms raising an American flag, children doing art projects and playing tennis, a woman in a Texas Aggies shirt, women purchasing goods from a store, adult women costumed in sombreros and fake mustaches, and people swimming and fishing.
Date: 1964?
Duration: 7 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, November 3, 1943]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on November 3, 1943. He found out a movie about A&M is being shown in town, and plans on going. He tells his father to expect a letter from the battalion clerk explaining the mix up with the checks Willis sent home.
Date: November 3, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, February 27, 1944]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on February 27, 1944. He explains that each soldier is allotted three Cokes a week starting March 1, and realizes that he's forgotten the taste. He went to see a movie and enjoyed it, and plans on going to a church service that night.
Date: February 27, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 16 - A Trip to Corpus Christi]

Description: This home movie excerpt documents the family's trip from Oklahoma to Corpus Christi. The video begins with the family visiting the Waco Suspension bridge and stopping to play with a tarantula. The family then views artifacts at the Texas Rangers Museum and stays in a campground in Schulenburg, Texas. The family is next at a campground on Padre Island where they take a ferry boat to Port Aransas. There they see the USS Lexington and the Texas State Aquarium. That evening they eat dinner at Landr… more
Date: 1997-08-05/1997-08-08
Duration: 19 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Pangburn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 31.555798 -97.118741
Partner: UNT Media Library

["Gone for the Wind" Ticket Stubs from the Orpheum Theatre]

Description: Ticket stubs for a Friday night showing of "Gone with the Wind" on February 16, 1940, the second night of its roadshow arrival at the Orpheum Theatre in Waco, Texas. The tickets are for "Mr. Wm. Hutto" in seats Q1-2, center. The tickets, $1.20 each, are pink and include mention of an orchestra.
Date: February 16, 1940
Creator: Orpheum Theatre
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 31.555852 -97.133099
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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