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[News Clip: Racial Profiling]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about racial profiling allegations against Dallas Police from the residents of Dallas.
Date: January 16, 2008
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[World Trade Center Sundries Shop]

Description: Photograph of a sundries shop at the Dallas World Trade Center. From left to right are greeting cards, shelves of personal hygiene products like toothpaste and shampoo, newspapers, and cigars and cigarettes. The tobacco products are behind the cashier's desk, which has a cash register, a receipt printer, and a yellow cushioned chair. In front of the cashier's desk are shampoos, soaps, candies, mints, chocolates, other snacks, pens, and a rotating display calendars.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center
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[News Clip: Alcohol Bust]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 21, 1993, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Ernest L. Ellis, June 30, 1981

Description: Interview with Ernest L. Ellis, owner and operator of Frank Ellis Dealer in Everything. The interview includes Ellis' personal experiences of employment with his father, Frank Ellis, in the general store. Ellis talks about his family background, effects of the Great Depression in New Hope, Texas businesses, food market opening, business operations during World War II, his employment as a feed salesman, general store advertising, his father's use of peddling wagon, Dallas fair and Mesquite trade… more
Date: June 30, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Ellis, Ernest L.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bob and Ada Reed Brewer, March 14, 1984

Description: Interview with Ada Reed and Bob Brewer, owners and operators of A. B. McGill and Company General Merchants. In the interview, the Brewers discuss their family backgrounds, marriage, losses on charge accounts during the Great Depression, the change from clerk-service to self-service operation of the store, the credit business, purchasing clothes at the Dallas fashion market, customer interests, changes in product lines, commercial and residential growth in the Bertram area, using direct mail and… more
Date: March 14, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Brewer, Ada Reed & Brewer, Bob
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Men in General Store]

Description: Copy print of two unidentified men standing inside a dry goods store, leaning against the glass counters on either side of the store. There are shelves lining the walls, behind the glass cases containing boxes, jars, and cans, some of which are stacked in pyramids. Handwritten notes below the image say, "Dad's Store" and "Grocery, Drug & Hardware."
Date: 1897
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

Improvement in Paper Bags.

Description: Patent for an improvement in paper bags with design specifications and a description of their functionality and usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1878
Creator: Alexander, Newton J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Price-Tag.

Description: Patent for an improved price tag that includes not only the price information, but also "at a glance a stock record and a cost record and provides space for making notations and writing other information" (lines 13-16) for the use of a store clerk's reference.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Bedinger, Singleton B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Apparel Mart Sundries Shop]

Description: Photograph of a sundries shop in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. On a glass countertop, multiple candies, sunglasses, hangover ailments, trinkets, and other novelty items are for sale. Behind the counter are film rolls, cigars and miscellaneous boxes. Cigar boxes are arranged under the counter behind a glass display, placed sideways with their lids opened to reveal neat rows of cigars.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[J. H. Barron's Everybody's Mercantile, Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of J. H. Barron's Everybody Mercantile (100 S Main Street, Midland). The general store has a long glass display cabinet with items displayed within and an employee working behind the counter. Shelves of merchandise are along the left wall, atop which are plied suitcases and blankets and near which stands Mollie McCormick (far left, white dress) and several other women. On the right wall are cabinets with rolls of paper above, as well as denser shelves in the back and … more
Date: 1904?
Partner: Midland Historical Society

Merchandise-Cabinet

Description: Patent for a cabinet made up of concave bins to hold merchandise such as nails. The cabinet also has a removable chute for filling the bins with merchandise.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Montgomery, Franklin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Counterfeit]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 28, 1991, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pawnshop Raid]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 31, 1994, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Display Rack

Description: Patent for a display rack for bananas and other fruits for improved mobility.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Stoneham, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Shooting]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 30, 1992, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Lottery]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: unknown
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Oaxaca Postcards Market, 2005]

Description: Photograph of postcards hanging from a clothing line in front of a shop. A woman stands behind a wooden counter in the store, and a boy stands by an ice chest in front of her. The wooden roof of the store is visible and covered with grass. There are picnic benches inside of the shop. [2005, Oaxaca, Mexico]
Date: 2005
Creator: Doherty, Richard, 1951-
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of "Left Behind" from the Southwest Review, August 21, 1944]

Description: Postcard of a drawing titled "Left Behind" from the magazine the Southwest Review. The drawing shows an abandoned western town with a hotel, boot shop, general store, and what appears to be a saloon side by side in front of a dirt road. There is a crooked street sign and a gas pump at the end of the road. There are hills in the background and sparse trees. The entire scene is covered in dirt and dust. On the back of the card is a message from Donald Day to Isaac H. Kempner thanking him for maki… more
Date: August 21, 1944
Creator: Day, Donald
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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