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[News Script: D Day at Ferris]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ferris, Texas getting dial service for their phones for the first time.
Date: July 30, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Utility company phone number]

Description: Photograph of slide giving the phone number for a power company. The slide is grey with text that reads "NECA House Power ED 2-3553" in white lettering. The slide is pinned to a black board that is hanging on the wall.
Date: August 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Fort Worth and Dallas phone numbers]

Description: Photograph of phone numbers for Farm and Home locations in Fort Worth and Dallas. The paper is white and with small text near the lower right hand corner. The text reads "Ft. Worth ED 5-1395 Dallas RI 2-6817" in black, rounded letters.
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm and Home phone numbers]

Description: Photograph of the phone numbers for the Dallas and Fort Worth Farm and Home locations. The paper of the advertisement is black while the phone numbers themselves are in white text. This text reads "Ft. Worth ED 5-1395 Dallas RI 2-6817". The paper is on a white canvas surface and you can see the shadows of fingers on this surface.
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Phone number for the Star Telegram]

Description: Photograph of a slide advertising the phone number for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. The background of the slide is black and the text, which reads "ED 2-4131 Fort Worth Star Telegram", is white. The slide is taped to a canvas board with a piece of tape on each corner.
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Slide of a rotary phone]

Description: Photograph of a slide with an illustration of a rotary telephone. The illustration depicts a hand picking up the handset of the telephone from the receiver. To the right of this illustration is text that reads "as near as your phone" in all lower case, black letters. The background of the slide is grey with white splotches and the slide is pinned on each corner to a dark, canvas board.
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of WBAP TV advertisement]

Description: Photograph of window display for upcoming programs on Total TV. A large sign in the center says "Coming Soon! on Channel 5." Below the sign are a variety of pictures displaying programs, such as "Five Fingers." On the ground more pictures are propped up displaying programs, "Fibber & Molly," "Deputy," and "Wagon Train." On the left and right are flags with "Total TV NBC/WBAP" written on them. On the left wall there is a poster for Bell Telephone Hour.
Date: September 29, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Farm and Home phone numbers]

Description: Photograph of phone numbers for the Farm and Home locations in Fort Worth and Dallas. The paper is white with black text that reads "ED 5-1395 Ft. Worth RI 8-8771 Dallas." This is tacked to a dark canvas board that is hanging on the wall with a door to the right and an outlet to the left.
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Phone numbers for Farm and Home in Dallas and Fort Worth]

Description: Photograph of phone numbers for Farm and Home locations. The picture is just a black background with white text that reads "Dallas RI 8-8771 Ft. Worth ED 5-1395". The numbers are in the 2L-5N format, or 2 letters and 5 numbers, which became the standard for telephone numbers in the 1950s.
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of an advertisement]

Description: Photograph of an advertisement thumb-tacked to black canvas, with a telephone on it, across the phone the word "convenience," is written in large white font. Below that in smaller black font is written "Ft. Worth ED5-1395 Dallas R1-6817."
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Slide of a phone]

Description: Photograph of a slide depicting a dial phone with a hand reaching to grab the receiver from the right. On the right side of the drawing there is writing that says, "as near as your phone."
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Convenience Poster]

Description: Photograph of poster that says, "convenience," in white font. There is a picture of a telephone on it, and cloudy detailing behind it. It is attached to a dark board. A man holds up a clear sheet with small, black writing, flipped above the central poster.
Date: January 19, 1959
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: Forgers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 3, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Phone books]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about new phone books arriving in Dallas.
Date: April 21, 1959
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: Scholarship]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Jacques Walls giving the one thousand dollar scholarship she won to an 8 year old boy.
Date: January 27, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Phone operators]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Southwestern Ball Telephone company having employees take a six week speed reading course to increase efficiency.
Date: January 26, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth City Council previewing the new city telephone directory.
Date: February 20, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men on the City Hall Program]

Description: Photograph of a group of men in suits on set. They are seated behind a curved counter. There are two microphones in front of them, and electric lights hang from the ceiling. To the left, a man is seen talking on a telephone.
Date: July 15, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Marie Stevenson talking on telephone]

Description: Photograph of Marie Stevenson sitting in a chair. She is holding a telephone receiver to her ear. There is a man with his back to the camera sitting in a chair to the far right of the image.
Date: April 1, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Forgers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about fraud in Dallas.
Date: March 3, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Phone operators]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Southwestern Ball Telephone company having employees take a six week speed reading course to increase efficiency.
Date: January 26, 1959
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: Hoax bomber]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Robert W. Keith pleading guilty to making hoax phone calls claiming that a bomb had been placed in an American Airlines plane.
Date: January 16, 1959
Duration: 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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