[Music Festivals research] (open access)

[Music Festivals research]

Research about music festivals in 2005 compiled for an article that was published in the December 2004 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2004-12~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Investigation of the Value of Music Workbooks in Junior High Music Classes (open access)

An Experimental Investigation of the Value of Music Workbooks in Junior High Music Classes

This study is an experimental investigation of two groups of junior high school students in an effort to evaluate the advantages of workbooks in their music classes. The comparison was made with two classes composed of thirty-two students each from the two junior high schools in the Beaumont Independent School District. One class used the workbooks in conjunction with the regular singing and appreciation work, but the other class did not use formal workbooks. They discussed the theory and notation of the music in relation to the work they were doing.
Date: August 1941
Creator: Milam, Lena
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Music of the Sea Memorial Fountain]

Photograph of the Music of the Sea Memorial Fountain at Jefferson County Sub-Courthouse. A human figure leaning over and holding a shell to its ear is in the center of the fountain. Jets of water are spraying towards it. It was presented to the city in 1940 by Edith Smith Norton (Mrs. Charles R.) in memory of her father, Charles Eugene Smith. It was created by artist, Henry Hudson Kitson.
Date: 1964~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Exterior of the Music Building at Lamar University]

Photograph of the exterior of the music building at Lamar University. A winding sidewalk leads to an entrance to the music building. The Lamar Theater is visible on the right side of the frame.
Date: February 15, 1972
Creator: Lewis, David P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Player Piano (open access)

Player Piano

Patent for a new form of valve for mechanical piano operated by pneumatic mechanisms in which the value is self-centering and does away with the guide pin usually employed, and an amplification of the wippen so that the striker rod is placed at the front of the pneumatic mechanism where it is accessible. The change in leverage permits the use of a smaller pneumatic.
Date: January 31, 1922
Creator: Pace, Vara L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Italian American Band]

Photograph of a band identified as "Vita Nuova" of La Societi Italiana. The band members are wearing light colored uniforms and are all holding instruments. A man wearing a suit is standing in the middle of the group. Handwritten text on the top of the photograph says "La Societi Italiana 'Vita Nuova' si Port Arthur, Texas."
Date: 1930~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Pleasure Island Ballroom Interior]

Photograph of the Pleasure Island ballroom in Port Arthur, TX. The ballroom is full of tables along all the walls. The middle area is left open for dancing. A big band is set up on the ballroom stage at the back of the room. A large sign above the stage reads, "Sonny Marx."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Choir members of Westminster Presbyterian Church]

Photograph of the choir members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church during the one hundred year marker religious service.
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Port Arthur National Guard Band]

Photograph of the Port Arthur National Guard Band on a stage; three men are standing and holding drums, and the rest are sitting and holding various instruments. A man sitting on the back row in the first chair on the left is identified as Sergeant John L. McClintock. He is holding a bass horn.
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Choir members of Westminster Presbyterian Church]

Photograph of the church organist Maro Varro with the choir director Frank Varro at the Westminster Presbyterian Church. The couple is seated at a pipe organ reviewing music to be played at a church service. Church pews and stain glass windows from the sanctuary are visible in the background of the image.
Date: [1980..1989]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woodrow Wilson Junior High School Band]

Photograph of a portrait of Woodrow Wilson Junior High Band. There are four rows of students wearing uniforms and holding instruments. In front, four girls wearing uniforms are holding batons and kneeling; a banner in the middle of the girls says "Woodrow Wilson Junior High School Port Arthur Texas," and has an emblem of the school mascot: a bear. In the background, there is a building with three arched doorways.
Date: March 1959
Creator: J. C. Watkins Photography
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Bill Hall with Two People]

Photograph of Bill Hall dressed in a tuxedo and standing between a woman in an evening dress and a man in a tuxedo. Both men are holding onto beverage glasses.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Port Arthur High School Student Band]

Photograph of Port Arthur High School student band. The people are posing in five rows holding musical instruments; they are wearing uniforms and hats. In the background, there is a building with three archways in the front.
Date: 1939
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Bill Hall Holding a Paper with Another Man]

Photograph of Bill Hall standing next to a bespectacled man. The two are holding a single sheet of paper. Both men are wearing tuxedos and standing in front of some foliage.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Man Playing Guitar]

Photograph of a man playing an acoustic guitar. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a kerchief style necktie, and western style clothing.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Man Playing Guitar]

Photograph of a man sitting at a piano and playing a guitar. He is wearing a cowboy hat and western style attire.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Band Standing in Bleachers]

Photograph of the Rudolf Lambert Post No. 7 American Legion Band. They are lined up on the steps of bleachers, and are standing facing the camera. There are men with drums and cymbals in the front row.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Band Marching on Field]

Photograph of the Rudolf Lambert Post No. 7 American Legion Band marching on a field. Two men at the front of the band hold large flags, and two men hold rifles. There are bleachers and a parking lot in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tracy Byrd Holding a Guitar]

Photograph of Tracy Byrd holding a guitar. He is wearing white shirt, black cowboy hat, and a leaning on a black acoustic guitar.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cricchio Photography Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Orchestra at the Pleasure Pier]

Photograph of an orchestra set to perform at the Port Arthur Pleasure Pier.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Harry Bobbitt]

Photograph of Harry Bobbitt posing for a photograph. The reverse side of the photo has a typed note that says that he was singing with Kay Kayser's band.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Jimmy Wyble]

Photograph of Jimmy Wyble posing with a guitar and standing behind a Magnatone amplifier.
Date: unknown
Creator: Merge Studios
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Drum Majors Shaking Hands]

Photograph of two drum majors from the Rudolf Lambert Post No. 7 American Legion Band. The two men are wearing full band uniforms and shaking hands.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cosimo Matassa]

Photograph of Cosimo Matassa wearing a striped and buttoned shirt. He is an elderly, balding man.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cricchio Bragg
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History