Device for Teaching Music (open access)

Device for Teaching Music

Patent for a music education device aimed toward children and basic music building blocks. It is designed to teach the positions of piano keyboard notes through the use of differently dressed and named puppets. These puppets can be adjusted to also introduce basic musical concepts like rests, rhythm, and time.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Maxwell, Annie L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Music Tactic] captions transcript

[News Clip: Music Tactic]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1993
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Music Battle] captions transcript

[News Clip: Music Battle]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1993
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tape Recordings And Music] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tape Recordings And Music]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1993
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Program for Richfield High School's Production of The Sound of Music] (open access)

[Program for Richfield High School's Production of The Sound of Music]

Program for Richfield High School's 1971 production of The Sound of Music. The musical was put on March 11, 12, and 13. Todd Bradford Willis is listed as a party guest.
Date: 1971-03-11/1971-03-13
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Waco more music] captions transcript

[News Clip: Waco more music]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the ongoing standoff between federal agents and the Branch Davidians led by David Koresh at the Mt. Carmel Center and sensory or psychological warfare tactics used including playing loud audio recordings including Christmas carols. This footage includes a press conference with FBI agent Bob Ricks about negotiations with David Koresh, aerial footage of the compound, and released group member Kathryn Schroeder. This footage was broadcast at 12pm.
Date: March 24, 1993
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steven Fromholz Performing at the Texas Music Cafe captions transcript

Steven Fromholz Performing at the Texas Music Cafe

Video footage of Steven Fromholz's performance at the Texas Music Cafe in Waco, Texas.
Date: March 5, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Poster for The Drifting Texans of Waco] (open access)

[Poster for The Drifting Texans of Waco]

Poster advertising "The Drifting Texans of Waco", with the subtitle "Sweet, Sad and Swing Music". Attached is an image of the band posing together for a photograph: from left to right, the instruments the players hold are a lap steel guitar, an acoustic guitar, a drumset, a classical guitar, and a fiddle-like instrument. A microphone stands in the center of the stage.
Date: 195X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas Benny Doss Promotional Picture]

Promotional picture of Texas Benny Doss holding a guitar and leaning forward while wearing a cowboy hat. He is given the subtitle "The Original Cass County Kid", and further contact information is listed below the photograph in the bottom right corner. The photograph has been signed by Texas Benny Doss in faint green-blue marker on the left half of the image.
Date: 196X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Alessandro's Band Member]

Full-body photograph of Alessandro's band member, posed standing in front of a painting of a large window and elevated potted plant. He wears a double-breasted coat with wide, overlapping front flaps and a round brimless cap with a crown about three inches in height. In his left hand he holds a trumpet. A handwritten note on the back reads, "Alessandro's band member, Waco."
Date: unknown
Creator: Jackson & Knight
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

West Jr. High School Band

Photograph of the West Jr. High School Band wearing their uniforms and holding their instruments. They sit in folding chairs on an indoor basketball court/auditorium. There is a curtained stage behind them. The band director, A. J. Bouck, poses with the students.
Date: May 1950
Creator: Hubbard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Mandolin Player and Dancer]

Portrait of a mandolin player and a dancer with a tambourine. The text on the back reads: " Compliments of Miss Bahl and Mr. Baugh. Spanish dancing girl and Mandolin player. ".
Date: unknown
Creator: Deane
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Casablanca Club in Waco]

Photograph of the Stratosphere Show at the Casablanca Club in Waco. A sign advertises that the show has been put on by the Aviation Research and Development Corp. and the Behren Drug Company. Several musicians sit and stand with their instruments behind a man with a stand microphone and a cigarette.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of WACO Radio Sation and ABC Broadcasting Co.]

Photograph of several unidentified men standing around an American Broadcast Company microphone with assorted instruments, including a banjo, a guitar, a fiddle, an upright bass, and a mandolin with an electric plug-in. The top of the microphone reads "WACO."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Touch-Regulating and Mute Attachment for Pianos (open access)

Combined Touch-Regulating and Mute Attachment for Pianos

Patent for combined touch regulating and mute attachment for pianos.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Harriss, Langdon & Kendall, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of a Young Man With a Flute]

Portrait of a young man with a flute in his hand and two stringed instruments to his left.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cassaday, W. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Mrs. Alexander in Her Room, 1905]

Photograph of elderly Mrs. Alexander in her room in a white dress. Text on the back reads: " 1905 Mrs. Alexander Waco Texas...Taken by Zeta Farmer (1890 - 1934) Oakwood Cem. Waco ".
Date: 1905
Creator: Farmer, Zeta Virginia
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Touch Regulating Attachment For Pianos (open access)

Touch Regulating Attachment For Pianos

Patent for a touch regulating attachment for pianos. This invention regulates the touch of the instrument to effect the tension or stiffness of the keys. Illustration included.
Date: March 29, 1904
Creator: Harriss, Langdon & Kendall, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gussie Kelly Henderson]

Photograph of Gussie Kelly Henderson captured sitting down at a piano. Henderson is pictured wearing a light colored polka dotted dress with dark color trim. At the piano there is two sheets of music visible with other items positioned on top of the piano itself. She is buried in the First Street Cemetery.
Date: unknown
Creator: Stauts, J. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Small Ad for Smith & Barnes Pianos] (open access)

[Small Ad for Smith & Barnes Pianos]

A small ad for Smith & Barnes Pianos. On the front is a colored image of Beethoven surrounded by lilac flowers. On the back is information about the Smith & Barnes pianos.
Date: unknown
Creator: W. A. Leyhe Piano Co.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of John Philip Herlin Bahl with a Violin]

Portrait of John Philip Herlin Bahl holding his violin and sitting in a wicker chair. He holds a bow in his right hand.
Date: unknown
Creator: Sanders, M. L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Young Ladies]

Portrait of a group of young ladies playing dominoes with one playing a guitar. The domino game is being played on top of a wooden box that has "Duke's Mixture" printed on the side.
Date: unknown
Creator: McKinley, F. M.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mooreville Boosters]

Photograph of the "Mooreville Boosters", possibly part of a parade of cars in either Mooreville or Lorena. The cars carry banners with words painted on them. A band stands in front of the cars, holding drums, trumpets, and horns. A row of shops is visible in the background, including the Evans-Westbrook Mercantile Company.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Souvenir Pamphlet for Violinist Rubinoff] (open access)

[Souvenir Pamphlet for Violinist Rubinoff]

Violin-shaped booklet advertising a "personal appearance" of violinist Dave Rubinoff in Waco, including background about Rubinoff and about his Stradivarius violin, information about the recital and ticket prices, a photo of Rubinoff playing the violin, and a blank space labeled "Personal Autograph"
Date: unknown
Creator: Waco Junior Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History