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The Transports.

Description: Cinquain poem composed as lyrics to a song with the beginning stanza containing 8 lines, ending stanza containing 6 lines and the middle stanzas having 4 lines, each rhyming on the second, fourth and sixth line. The lyrics discuss conditions at war and the American's confidence in the fight against dictators.
Date: [1941..1945]
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Our Fighting Men

Description: Five stanza rhyming poem in rhyming couplets composed as song lyrics on the subject of multiple members of branches of the army arriving on the island of Guadalcanal. A shorter poem at the bottom of the page addresses soldiers of planes flying over Guadalcanal.
Date: unknown
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

SNAFU

Description: Six stanza poem in rhymed verse, with four lines per stanza and eight lines on the third stanza, composed as lyrics to a song on the subject of the military's response to Pearl Harbor and lackluster conditions.
Date: [1941..1945]
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Tulagi Specials.

Description: Two couplet rhyming poems composed as lyrics to the a song set to popular tunes. The first two stanzas are lyrics to a song set to the tune of "Shanty in Old Shanty Town" on the subject of horrible conditions at a foxhole on Tulaghi Isle. The second two stanzas are lyrics set to the tune of "My Gal Sal" being a comedic ode to General Douglas MacArthur.
Date: 194X
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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[News Clip: Shopping]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 24, 1992, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cinco de Mayo]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 3, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cinco de Mayo]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 4, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cinco de Mayo]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 5, 1991, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Meyerson]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 21, 1991, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Meyerson]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 21, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Reggae Fest]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 31, 1991, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Latin Jazz]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 9, 1991, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Vets Parade]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 6, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Player Piano

Description: Patent for a new form of valve for mechanical piano operated by pneumatic mechanisms in which the value is self-centering and does away with the guide pin usually employed, and an amplification of the wippen so that the striker rod is placed at the front of the pneumatic mechanism where it is accessible. The change in leverage permits the use of a smaller pneumatic.
Date: January 31, 1922
Creator: Pace, Vara L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Soldiers Play Around a Piano]

Description: Photograph of soldiers gathered around playing instruments. A man sits at a dark piano in a white t-shirt and light-colored pants. To his left is a group of men in uniform standing behind a seated guitar and a saxophone player. On the left is a man holding sticks to a wooden block and on the right is a clarinet player.
Date: 1942~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Program for the Opening of the Camp Crocodile Mess Hall, October 1, 1943]

Description: Program for the grand opening of the Camp Crocodile mess hall. The program is decorated with small illustrations and lists the menu for the night as well as the festivities including a musical interlude, a movie short, and a showing of "The Palm Beach Story".
Date: October 1, 1943
Creator: Third Amphibious Force
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Program for Smoker at Sea, August 11,1945]

Description: Program for the "Smoker at Sea" boxing event held on August 11, 1945 aboard the USS Altamaha (CVE-18). The program lists the sponsors, master-of-ceremonies, fight promoter, fighters, referees, judges, and timekeepers, and musicians for the event and has song lyrics on the back. The front of the program features an illustration of a muscular sailor with the event details in stylized text.
Date: August 11, 1945
Creator: USS Altamaha (CVE-18)
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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[Northside Community Center meeting in Luling, TX]

Description: Audio recording of a meeting of the Northside Community Center in Luling, Texas, with chairman R.A. Harrison. The meeting involves the Community Improvement and Home Development Organization. Recorded by Dee Azadian.
Date: March 10, 1977
Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Assassination]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 1995
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cabinet

Description: Patent for a phonograph cabinet which has specialized storage for records with a built in cataloging and record finding system composed of letters running horizontally across the cabinet and numbers on a sliding strip which when put together with a letter will indicate the position of the record.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: Keltz, Eugene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Play Rehearsal]

Description: Photograph of actors rehearsing a show. A man sits at a desk with a hand covering his eyes and the other pointing in front of him. Three other men stand to his right in front of the sitting musicians on the side. A woman stands on the right with her hands on either side of her face. A man stands partially out of frame on the left.
Date: 1942~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Bell-Holder

Description: Patent for a bell holder that attaches to the neck of an animal, prevents loss of the bell, and is easy to use and cheap.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Pappas, Peter G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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