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[News Clip: "Shaped coif" latest hairdo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new hairdo, the "shaped coiffure", being offered by Fort Worth hairstylist Joseph Garrett.
Date: June 15, 1954
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Illustration in "The Elizabethan Zoo"]

Description: Photographs of illustrations in "The Elizabethan Zoo: A Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and Authentic" held by UNT Special Collections. The first image is of a creature with the head of a human, breasts, scales, paws, hooves, and a tail that is called a Lamia. The second image's central focus is a tapered passage about the "Mantichora", or manticore, including different names and descriptions for the creature. The face of the illustration is visible on the other page. Image 3, is of a manticore, s… more
Date: October 9, 2014
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Tincy Found]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about finding Tincy's dead body in an abandoned well on the outskirts of the city.
Date: September 1, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Rhino page in "The Elizabethan Zoo"]

Description: Photograph of an illustration and passage in "The Elizabethan Zoo: A Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and Authentic" held by UNT Special Collections. The drawing is of a rhinoceros with added details. There are layers of 'armor' on it that does not resemble the way a rhino truly looks, though the form as a whole is accurate to the rhino. Beneath that is a portion of a passage about Edward Topsell's findings on the rhinoceros.
Date: October 9, 2014
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Hair-Drying Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved method of drying hair after washing that separates and parts the hair in numerous places to quickly and thoroughly dry the hair. The apparatus, that sits on the shoulders, also has an "improved fastener for holding the frame on the head" (lines 40-41), and the frame is collapsible.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Moffitt, Mansfield M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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