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[News Script: Wool Fashions]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the ninth annual "Make it Yourself with Wool" contest in Fort Worth.
Date: January 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fashion designers]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Bobbie Wygant about the Mike Benet Formals company in Pittsburg, Texas. The story begins with footage of Wygant talking to an unidentified designer about her sketches and designs and includes women in a factory cutting patterns and sewing fabrics, finished dresses displayed and inspected, and fashion models walking around a swimming pool in evening gowns.
Date: January 13, 1976
Duration: 4 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Luggage]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 3, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman sewing in class]

Description: Photograph of a woman sewing in class. She is sitting next to a window and using both hands to use a sewing machine. The material that she is using has a checkerboard pattern.
Date: January 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Linnet Moore to Mary Ann Moore and Birdie McGee, January 23, 1902]

Description: This document is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Linnet Moore to her mother, Mary Ann Moore, and to her cousin Birdie McGee. In the letter, Linnet details the happenings in her life since her last letter to her mother and they include: receiving her mother's most recent letter and photographs; detailing the rainy weather in Denison; and noting that she and Mrs. P went to church on Sunday morning, then for a walk on Sunday afternoon in the country. She describes t… more
Date: January 23, 1902
Creator: Moore, Linnet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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[Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary and Charles B. Moore, January 26, 1885]

Description: Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary and Charles B. Moore, January 26, 1885, in which she gives the details of the health of family and friends. The weather has been extremely cold and icy. Other topics in the letter are: Willie was kept home due to the weather; they slaughtered their last hog; and having trouble keeping busy after using up all the yarn and completing the last sewing project. William Dodd adds a note of his own to the letter. The envelope has a postal mark from Gallatin, Tennessee.
Date: January 26, 1885
Creator: Dodd, Matilda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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[Letter from Birdie McGee to Linnet Moore, January 20, 1898]

Description: Letter from Birdie McGee to her cousin Linnet Moore in which she updated Linnet on the activities of her cousins. She also described what she and their extended family did for Christmas. She also writes about visiting neighbors, sewing a dress, and making a trip to town. A clipping showing the styles of blouses and a piece of fabric from her dress were included with the letter.
Date: January 20, 1898
Creator: McGee, Birdie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a fan attachment for a sewing machine which attaches to the foot pedal so that when the pedal is operated, the fan is activated, including illustrations.
Date: January 19, 1915
Creator: Luttrell, Charles W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for a new removable quilting frame for sewing machines. Patent for "improvements in sewing-machine attachments for quilting designed to support a quilting frame that can be moved from place to place" (lines 14-21) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new quilting attachment for sewing-machine design with, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Clark, Chester Cady
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Quilting-Frames

Description: Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date: January 16, 1877
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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