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Oral History Interview with Merrill Ellis, July 1-2, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Merrill Ellis, July 1-2, 1981

Interview with Merrill Ellis, a composer and music professor at the University of North Texas, regarding his education, career in music, compositions, and the developments he spearheaded in the field of electronic compostion.
Date: July 2, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Mailman, Martin S. & Ellis, Merrill, 1916-1981
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Grand View Cornet Band]

Copy photo of the Grand View Cornet Band taken at the home of N. Matt Hale. The front row band members are identified from left to right as Chet Odom, Otis E. Hale, Billy Wagner band director, Peck Elliot, and Elbert English. The back row are identified from left to right as Bill Webb, unknown, unknown, Mr. McMasters, Matt Hale, Ernest Hale, Dr. Edmundson DDS, and Will Hale. The two women are identified as Florence Riley and Mable Hale.
Date: 1895~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Rock festival] (open access)

[News Script: Rock festival]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Aquilla music festival which began near Cleburne got rained out.
Date: July 6, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Cleburn] captions transcript

[News Clip: Cleburn]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 20, 1986, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Fiddlin Family] captions transcript

[News Clip: Fiddlin Family]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Jack Helsel about a family of fiddle players led by music teacher Valarie Morris of Burelson. This footage includes Morris, daughters Jennifer and Julie, and sister Lydia playing "Faded Love" with Fort Worth music festival organizer Tommy Burger. This story aired at 6:00 P.M.
Date: July 15, 1988
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Women by House

Copy negative of music teacher Mrs. Myrtle Schultz and seven mothers of her students. Lela Hefner Cummings is second from left.
Date: 1930~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Rock festival] (open access)

[News Script: Rock festival]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the sudden shower which poured on Aquilla music festival.
Date: July 6, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Stewart, March 27, 2003

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with jazz musician Robert "Bob" Stewart. In the interview, Steward speaks about his early interest in music, his first drum set, first professional job with the Shorty Clements Band, attending college, his employment as a disk jockey, his definition of jazz, playing with the Charles Scott Band in fort Worth, after-hours clubs in Fort Worth, jazz's role in bringing together black and white musicians, various jazz clubs and venues in Fort Worth, musicians unions, the lack of full-time employment opportunities for jazz musicians in Fort Worth, the Fort Worth jazz scene, and peculiarities of Texas jazz and the "Texas Sound." The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: March 27, 2003
Creator: Brown, Peggy Brandt & Stewart, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Band Performing at Hamilton's Furniture Store]

Copy print of a four-man band performing Hamilton's Furniture Store in Cleburne, identified as Ronald McRuiz seated at the drums (left) and Al Stricklin standing behind him, Bill Thacker seated at a piano (center), and Jesse Mears playing a fiddle next to a microphone (right). Thacker is facing away from the piano keyboard, clapping, with Stricklin. Unidentified persons afer visible behind the band. Additional information about the group is printed on the back.
Date: 197X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group at Hamilton's Furniture Store]

Copy print of five men posing together at Hamilton's Furniture Store in Cleburne, identified as Randy Hamilton (the owner) in the center, with musicians Al Stricklin and Ronald McRuiz at left, and Jesse Mears and Leon Rausch at right. Mears is holding a fiddle under his right arm and a bow in his hand; Rausch has a guitar slung across his chest and under his right arm. Additional information about the group is printed on the back.
Date: 197X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Old Settlers See Parade, Contest] captions transcript

[News Clip: Old Settlers See Parade, Contest]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the parade for the 61st annual Johnson County Old Settler's reunion in Alvarado.
Date: August 11, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Kit Bike /  Dog & Cat / Wagon Train / Fiddlers / Ross Perot] captions transcript

[News Clip: Kit Bike / Dog & Cat / Wagon Train / Fiddlers / Ross Perot]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1990 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1990

Tri-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 1, 1990
Creator: Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 40, Ed. 1 Monday, March 13, 1978 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 40, Ed. 1 Monday, March 13, 1978

Semi-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 13, 1978
Creator: Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1978 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1978

Semi-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 6, 1978
Creator: Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 75, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1990 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 75, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1990

Tri-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 6, 1990
Creator: Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1990 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1990

Tri-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 19, 1990
Creator: Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 87, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1990 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 87, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1990

Tri-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 4, 1990
Creator: Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 84, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1990 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 84, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1990

Tri-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne Morning Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Ed. 1 Saturday, January 21, 1922 (open access)

Cleburne Morning Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Ed. 1 Saturday, January 21, 1922

Daily newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 21, 1922
Creator: Horne, Cecil
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 65, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1994 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 65, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1994

Semi-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 26, 1994
Creator: Ellertson, Sally
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1990 (open access)

Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1990

Tri-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 12, 1990
Creator: Moody, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1961 (open access)

Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1961

Weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 28, 1961
Creator: Deering, R. G. K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Joshua Star (Joshua, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 2012 (open access)

Joshua Star (Joshua, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Joshua, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 4, 2012
Creator: Sorter, Dave
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History