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[Barbara Roeder and Jane Wulf]

Description: Photograph of Barbara Roeder and Jane Wulf posing together and smiling at the camera. This photograph was taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico to promote the 1997 National Association of College and University Food Services convention in Buffalo, New York. Both women are wearing blue disposable rain ponchos over their clothing to indicate their trip to Niagara Falls. The photograph is contained inside a folder.
Date: July 1996
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before I wake: a story

Description: This chapbook commemorates a reading given by Helen Leath on December 1, 1999, in the Rare Book Room of the University of North Texas Library. The reading was the second presentation of Short fiction writers, a series sponsored by the Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries and co-sponsored by the UNT Department of English. This edition of four hundred signed/numbered copies and is made possible by a generous grant from the Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries. Rare Boo… more
Date: 1999
Creator: Leath, Helen
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[Bible Leaf with Text from 1st Maccabee, 13th Century]

Description: A leaf from a Bible in Latin (France or England, ca. 1230-1260) containing text from 1 Maccabees 1 et seq. ("Et factum est postquam percussit Alexander Philippi Macedo"). Text displayed as 2 columns, gothic script (texualis formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written "below top line" which suggests the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Pra… more
Date: [1230..1260]
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[Big Fire Flares Up Saturday during demolishing work at Tannery]

Description: Document of an article from the Herald Times regarding a large fire that occurred at the developing Tex Tan in South Yoakum. The building was set on fire due to a mistake during the demolition process of the tannery building in order to construct the new Tex Tan location. Firefighters went through strenuous work in order to put out the fire and were successful as no injuries were reported.
Date: May 30, 1974
Creator: Brier, Leo
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[Bill Ryan and Robert Blaize]

Description: Photograph of Bill Ryan and Robert Blaize at a conference for the National Association of College and University Food Services. Both men are standing and smiling at the camera. Ryan was an employee at Oklahoma State University and Blaize was an employee of the University of Oklahoma.
Date: 199X
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Bird Burden

Description: Bird book sketchbook created by UNT student Amy Cole, also titled The Beast. The sketchbook contains illustrated drawings and handwriting descriptions by Cole. The sketchbook also contains printed images of plant and animal life.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Cole, Amy
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[Book of Hours Leaf from the Mid 15th Century, France]

Description: France [Valence], mid-15th century. Text displayed in single column, bâtarde hand. Rubrics in pink, two two-line initials in gold and colors, and with a miniature of Matthew and his angel, enclosed by a rounded gilt frame as well with a border on three sides, the border containing acanthus leaves, hairline vines with gold dots, and trefoils, the same border on the outer margin of the other side of the leaf. The artist here has depicted Matthew in the act of writing. Matthew sits with his back t… more
Date: [1450..1500]
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[Book of Hours Leaf: Prayers for the Dead from the 15th Century, France?]

Description: (France? 15th-century). Text displayed in single column, gothic script, initials alternating blue and burnished gold, the formers with black filigree and the latter with red. From a Book of Hours, in Latin. Lauds / Office of the Dead. Includes prayers beginning with "Generacio mea ablata est et conuoluta est a me quasi tabernaculum pastorum."
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Book of Hours Pentecostal Illumination from the 15th Century, Bruges (Belgium)]

Description: A leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, with a full-page illumination of Pentecost (Bruges, ca. 1460). The illustration is enclosed by a wide and ornate bar frame in pink and blue with gold tracery, the frame outlined in burnished gold with floral cornerpieces in colors and gold, the whole within a full floral border filled with blue, pink, and red flowers, with blue and gold acanthus leaves and green buds and leaves as well as many tiny burnished gold dots. The Virgin and the Apostles gathered … more
Date: 1460
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[Booklet: Annie Webb Blanton of Denton for the thirteenth congressional district]

Description: Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) was an American suffragist, educator, and author of a series of grammar textbooks. Blanton was elected Superintendent of Texas Public Instruction in 1918, making her the first woman in Texas elected to statewide office. She was born in Houston and at 18 moved to Austin to attend classes at the University of Texas where she graduated in 1899 with a Bachelors of Literature. In 1901, Dr. Blanton began teaching English at North Texas Normal School in Denton, Texas whe… more
Date: 1922
Creator: Von Boeckman-Jones Co.
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