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[Pages of a stamp collection]

Photograph of two pages of a stamp collection. They are laying on a piece of light colored fabric with a cross-hatched pattern. The area around the square piece of fabric is completely dark. The top page has eighteen commemorative stamps on it that represent U.S. historic sites and some famous U.S. citizens. The bottom page has fifteen stamps on it that all people's faces, mostly those of presidents, on them.

Date: March 12, 1959

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pages of commemorative stamps]

Photograph of two pages of commemorative stamps. The top page mainly includes stamps from historic locations in the United States, including the Statue of Liberty and Fort Ticonderoga, and there are also some stamps for wildlife conservation. The bottom page mostly includes stamps with people's portraits, namely portraits of presidents.

Date: January 19, 1959

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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A Woman's Place is at Work: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor in Five Texas Cities, 1900-1940

This thesis is a quantitative analysis of women working for pay aged sixteen and older in five mid-size Texas cities from 1900 to 1940. It examines wage-earning women primarily in terms of race, age, marital status, and occupation at each census year and how those key factors changed over time. This study investigates what, if any, trends occurred in the types of occupations open to women and the roles of race, age, and marital status in women working for pay in the first forty years of the 20t… more

Date: August 2017

Creator: Scott, Codee

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Ready to Run: Fort Worth's Mexicans in Search of Representation, 1960-2000

This dissertation analyzes Fort Worth's Mexican community from 1960 to 2000 while considering the idea of citizenship through representation in education and politics. After establishing an introductory chapter that places the research in context with traditional Chicano scholarship while utilizing prominent ideas and theories that exist within Modern Imperial studies, the ensuing chapter looks into the rise of Fort Worth's Mexican population over the last four decades of the twentieth century.… more