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[News Script: Zonta]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Babe Zaharais (Zaharis?), a woman athlete, receiving the World's Outstanding Sports Woman award from Fort Worth Zonta club members.
Date: September 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ship]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the British Royal Navy flagship Kenya visiting Texas ports as part of an international relations event between countries.
Date: March 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Splash day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Splash Day celebration at Galveston beach.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Off to Europe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U.S. troops boarding transport ships in Galveston to join Atlantic Pact forces in Europe under General Eisenhower.
Date: July 17, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Photographers select queen]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Splash Day in Galveston where close to 100,000 people came out for the opening of Galveston beach and the National Press Photographers Queen Contest.
Date: May 5, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sheppard Charges Red Plot in Texas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Texas Attorney General, John Ben Sheppard, accusing the Processing and Office Worker Union of America of being a communist operation to cripple the oil industry.
Date: November 25, 1953
Duration: 3 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Galveston Seawall Unit Dedicated]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dedication of a 3-mile extension of the Galveston sea wall, built to accommodate the expanding city.
Date: December 1, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Missing Hunters Sought in Gulf]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the search for the bodies of duck hunters Earl Reichert and James Henderson, who went missing and are believed dead in the Guld of Mexico.
Date: December 9, 1953
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New Hospital is Dedicated]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dedication ceremony for a new hospital at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.
Date: December 16, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lipton tea factory production lines]

Description: Photograph of the Lipton tea factory in Galveston, Texas, and the workers on the production assembly line. The woman in the foreground is setting up the production line with the lipton boxes, the two women in the back are packaging the lipton boxes in larger boxes for shipment.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lipton workers packaging tea boxes]

Description: Photograph of Lipton tea workers in the tea factory in Galveston, Texas. Two women in the foreground can be seen holding Lipton tea boxes and putting them into larger boxes to be shipped out. Other workers can be seen around the facility doing their own portion of the production line job.
Date: [1955,1959]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oklahoma City Indians]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Oklahoma City Indians beginning their Texas League spring training in Galveston.
Date: March 13, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 56th District Court]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 9, 1952
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Harden Wins Golf Title]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 14, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Eagles begin workouts]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas Eagles undergoing spring training in Galveston.
Date: March 10, 1954
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Nixon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Galveston to speak at a convention of the Texas Press Association.
Date: June 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Splash Day opens Galveston Beach]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the events of Splash Day at Galveston Beach.
Date: May 1, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Nixon]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the arrival of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Galveston to speak at a convention of the Texas Press Association.
Date: June 12, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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