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[Photograph of Byrd Williams IV at a table in a baseball uniform]

Description: Photograph of Byrd Williams IV sitting at a table in a white baseball uniform with dark trim. He sits in a wooden chair, looking down, away from the camera, and holds up an "ok" sign with his hand. His hair is parted down the middle with a little spike sticking up at the crown of his head, in the style of the character Alfalfa from the 1950's television show The Little Rascals. Some utensils lay on an otherwise empty dinner plate on the covered table in front of him. A patterned curtain hangs b… more
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photo of Majestic Building]

Description: Photograph of a woman seated behind a desk. She is smiling at the camera. She is wearing a dark-colored shirt. Her hair is in an updo. There are various office supplies, plants, decorations on desks, couches, and cabinets around her.
Date: October 21, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[People sitting at tables in Dallas Trade Mart]

Description: Photograph of people sitting at tables at Dallas Trade Mart. The table are laid out around a large water fountain in a courtyard enclosed by a building with three floors. Each of the building's floors has a balcony alongside it and a walkway that extends over the courtyard.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A large water fountain at Dallas Trade Mart]

Description: Photograph of a large water fountain at Dallas Trade Mart. The water fountain sits in a courtyard and is surrounded by tables and chairs, some with people dining at them. The courtyard is enclosed by a building with three floors that each have balconies along their sides. The left and right halves of the building are connected by walkways that extend across the courtyard.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A table outside the Dearborn building]

Description: Photograph of a table outside the Dearborn building. The table sits in a grassy area next to bushes and a rocky wall, which extends past a second grassy area farther away. The Dearborn building is a long structure that sits at the opposite side of the grass.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A classroom with students sitting in rows]

Description: Photograph of a classroom with students sitting in rows. The students are seated in chairs behind long tables that face towards a teacher behind a table at the end of far end of the room. The students are all dressed in pale short-sleeved shirts. dark pants, pale socks, and dark shoes.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A Texas courtroom containing folding chairs]

Description: Photograph of a Texas courtroom containing folding chairs. Two rows of folding chairs face a short wooden wall, beyond which is a small table surrounded by wooden chairs. Behind the table and chairs are two tall wooden walls partially blocking two chairs from view, one of which has an American flag and a Texas flag on either side of it. At the left side of the room is an additional row of folding chairs facing towards the right.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A hallway with potted plants and a desk]

Description: Photograph of a hallway with potted plants and a desk. The potted plants lined the side of the hallway, sitting between rectangular columns that have small signs extending from them, one of which says "telephone." In the right side of the hallway is a brick-walled room containing a desk, curtains, and a glass door.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hallway doors opened to a room full of chairs]

Description: Photograph of hallway doors opened to a room full of chairs. The chairs are placed in neat rows that face a single rows chairs placed in a semi-circle behind a curving desk. In the hallway outside the room's doors are a potted plant and a desk with a telephone.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A reception desk behind a fence]

Description: Photograph of a reception desk behind a fence. Office equipment sits on top of the desk while chairs and a lamp sit to the desk's left and a clock hangs on the wall above it. Rectangular columns sit on either side of the room with the desk and have small rectangular signs extending from them, the right one of which has the word "secretary on it." On the wall next to the left column is a small sign with the text "council chamber" on it.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bed filled with wedding gifts]

Description: Photograph of the wedding gifts Lajean and James Alan Wharton received during their nuptials laid out on a bed in a family home. Some wedding gifts include pots and pants, a wall clock, an alarm, and other assorted home gifts.
Date: June 4, 1955
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Buckner fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a fire at the Buckner Orphans Home east of Dallas, which caused $2500 worth of damage but no injuries. Also covered, a story about one Crandall home destroyed and two others damaged in a fire.
Date: April 7, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs - fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a small shack behind the home of furniture manufacturer A. Brandt burning down in Fort Worth.
Date: June 2, 1955
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rummage sale will aid deaf children]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a rummage sale to benefit the Fort Worth Optimist Club's school for deaf children.
Date: March 30, 1955
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Widespread damage caused by storm]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a windstorm and heavy rain in Fort Worth causing widespread damage to local buildings and power lines.
Date: September 11, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Superintendent]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the relocation of the Tarrant County school superintendent offices from the basement of the county courthouse, to the former site of a drug store a block away.
Date: September 2, 1955
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Decorative Center]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the formal opening of the Decorative Center in the Oak Lawn section of Dallas.
Date: September 4, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Majestic Building]

Description: Photograph of a woman seated behind a desk. She is on the phone. She is wearing a dark-colored shirt. Her hair is in an updo. She is slightly turned and looking at the camera. There are various office supplies, decorations on desks, and cabinets around her. A photo depicting a landscape is mounted on the wall. There are two windows with blinds and patterned curtains to the right of the image. Lights and a ceiling fan are on the ceiling.
Date: October 21, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Byrd Williams IV sitting on the floor]

Description: Photograph of young Byrd Williams IV in a living room. He kneels down on the patterned carpet and turns around to face the camera with a smile. He wears a long-sleeved western-style shirt and pants. A woman with rollers in her hair sits on the floor across from him and looks down at the plaid fabric in her lap. She wears a short-sleeved gingham-print dress. A stack of folded linens rests on a wooden coffee table in the foreground. A chair and another table are partially visible sitting against … more
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Byrd Williams IV eating at a table]

Description: Photograph of Byrd Williams IV eating at a covered table in a baseball uniform. He looks off to the right, away from the camera, and rests his elbow on the table. He holds some food in one hand. Two utensils sit on a white dinner plate that sits on the table in front of him. Patterned curtains hang behind him.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Empty chairs outside of a room, 2]

Description: Photograph of empty chairs outside of a room in Amarillo Savings. The chairs are placed around a small table next to a wall that three images hang on. Through an open doorway next to the chairs is a room containing a desk and chair, behind which hangs another picture.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Empty chairs outside of a room, 1]

Description: Photograph of empty chairs outside of a room in Amarillo Savings. The chairs are placed around a small table next to a wall that three images hang on. Through an open doorway next to the chairs is a room containing a desk and chair, behind which hangs another picture.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A wall of windows at Amarillo Savings]

Description: Photograph of a wall of windows at Amarillo Savings. The windows are set into large rectangular frames and fill the height and length of the wall. A funnel-shaped structure sits in front of the wall at its center and extends from the tiled ground to the smooth ceiling above it. Two rectangular lights and a dark rectangle dotted with holes occupy the ceiling. Through the windows in the wall a large room occupied by multiple desks, chairs, curtains, potted plants, and hanging lights is visible.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A conference room in the Akard building, 1]

Description: Photograph of a conference room in the Akard building. A seemingly hexagonal table is surrounded by about twelve cushioned chairs and has a circle of nameplates at its center. Beneath the furniture is a pale carpeted floor. In the background beyond the table and chairs is a fireplace with hanging lights on either side of it. Both the fireplace and the wall behind it are made up by many thin bricks. Tall potted plants also sit on either side of the fireplace, as do two small tables with about fo… more
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Rogers, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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