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[Churning Butter with Marie Fleming]

Description: Color photograph of a teenage girl churning butter in a glass paddle churn while an older woman, identified as Marie Fleming from Nederland, Texas, watches her work. The churn is placed in a bed of ice contained in an aluminum pan. This booth is one of many at the 7th Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fair Fun]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5:00 P.M.
Date: September 26, 1997
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Popcorn]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 1, 1983, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary and Charles B. Moore, April 17, 1885]

Description: Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary and Charles B. Moore in which she starts out discussing her and her family's health. She also discusses the weather, crops, and the deaths of Jo Wallace and Mrs. Wilson. She says that Dinkie needs to make soap and was making butter. William Dodd and Birdie McGee added a notes at the end of the letter. Birdie shared that she weighed 41 pounds.
Date: April 17, 1885
Creator: Dodd, Matilda
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Dinkie McGee to Mary and Charles B. Moore, April 14, 1891]

Description: Letter from Dinkie McGee to Mary and Charles B. Moore in which she updates them on the health of family members, the crops, and the weather. She thanks them for the bluing. She also says that her family is selling sheep and lambs. She has been making money selling eggs and butter. She asks if Mary has had her "teeth out." Included with this letter is a swatch of blue fabric with a white line design of squares.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: McGee, Dinkie
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letters from Frank and Alice Griffin to the Moore family, September 24-26, 1894]

Description: These are letters from the Charles B. Moore Collection. The first two are written by Alice Griffin, who was Adelitia "Dinkie" McGee's daughter and niece and cousin to members of the Moore family. An additional letter is written by Frank M. Griffin, Alice's husband. In Alice's letter, she informs the Moore family of the goings-on in Gallatin, Tennessee and the news includes: an update on family members health, news about the weather, a discussion about Matilda Dodd, a dialogue about pickling an… more
Date: September 24, 1894
Creator: Griffin, Alice McGee & Griffin, Frank M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Benjamin R. Harris to Dr. Meyer Bodansky - June 5, 1931]

Description: Letter from Benjamin R. Harris to Dr. Bodansky concerning a patent application on compounds similar to lecithin that may reduce the spattering of butter, margarine, and the like, that Harris wants resolved. It also includes his heartfelt regard to Mrs. Bodansky and his congratulations to the Bodansky's on the recent birth of their child.
Date: June 5, 1931
Creator: Harris, Benjamin R.
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Letter from D. W.. Kempner to E. W. Grove, March 17, 1944]

Description: Letter from D. W. Kempner to E. W. Grove discussing a shipment of onions. Included on the letter is a handwritten reply signed "Grove" stating that all of the onions that could get past customs had been sent, along with butter that he hopes did not spoil, at no charge.
Date: March 17, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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Test Run Poetry

Description: Recording was taken from a homemade CD titled "Test Run Poetry/ 30 Tracks." There are 28 individual tracks featuring poems written and read by Harold Epstein. There are some with related or similar content and others that are unique. Epstein uses different styles for a few of the poems to add effects like singing, echoing his words, and emphasizing some words and not others.
Date: December 7, 2003
Duration: 46 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Epstein, Harold
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Churns

Description: Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Gray, Whitley F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Reciprocating Churns

Description: Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1877
Creator: Welch, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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