Photograph of a Brandon Kennedy bobblehead, held by UNT Special Collections. The bobblehead is of Brandon Kennedy, Kennedy was the first African American to earn the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year. The bobblehead depicts Kennedy is wearing his green North Texas football uniform. Kennedy won the award again in 2003, and was inducted into UNT’s Hall of Fame in 2012.

Photograph of Fred McCain's footballs, held by UNT Special Collections. The two footballs are white with green stripes. North Texas State University is across the football on the left in green, a stamp for First State Bank on it. The number 1 is on the left of the football, the number in white outlined by green. Fred McCain, who had a 40-year career at UNT. He was a quarterback (1945-48), a football coach (1950-1971), director of the UNT Coliseum (1973-1982), and director of athletics (1972 and 1982-1987). He received two degrees from UNT: a bachelor’s in 1948 and a master’s in administrative education in 1949.

Photograph of the Mexican American Student Organization (MASO) sweatshirt, worn by members of the Mexican American Student Organization (MASO). The attached button refers to the United Farm Workers (UFW) Delano Grape Strike and Boycott (1965 – 1970), led by Latino activist Cesar Chavez. The shirt is red in color, with the letters MASO spanned across the front in thick black letters.

Photograph of a newsletter titled Our Small Door. The newspaper's title is written in the cloud illustration at the top of the page. Under the title, Our Small Door described itself as "a family village bulletin board of events, needs, services, and concepts." Our Small Door was located on 118 Fry St., Denton, Texas.

Photograph of the 1988 time capsule that was buried in front of the Hurley Administration Building. It had been assembled to commemorate the occasion of the seventh name change for the university. The name was changed to the University of North Texas from North Texas State University. It was buried alongside the 1962 time capsule, which documented the first year the school was a university.

Photograph of an Apogee Stadium coin, held by UNT Special Collections. The coin is a shiny silver in color. On the front side of the coin, the words Apogee Stadium is in the middle. The rim of it is a dark green, word inside the rim. The back of the coin is in the same way, except in the middle is the green eagle symbol for UNT, and the words are the university name and the date September 10, 2011.

Photograph of the Brunsviga calculator, held by UNT Special Collections. The calculator is silver in color and looks like a mini typewriter. The knobs on it are shiny red. The Brunsviga mechanical calculator was originally developed in 1891 and was manufactured until the 1970s when they were replaced by electronic calculators. This example was used by students and faculty in the NTSU Mathematics Department.

Photograph of football tickets, held by UNT Special Collections. The tickets are pink, and one lays on top of the other. The tickets have information on them over the Trinity University game at Fouts Field on November 3, 1956. They have black and red words on them.

Photograph of a Freshman beanie. Freshmen bought a beanie with the year of their expected graduation when they registered for classes. The beanies were worn at the beginning of the fall semester and to the first football game. The beanie is green and has an embroidered white 48 on the cap and a white button at the top.

Photograph of a Hockey Hero card from the Hockey Club of North Texas. The card is small and white, the words Hockey Hero in the middle of it in green. Above that are the words Hockey Club of North Texas, a hockey club symbol.

Photograph of The Hockey Hero News of June 23, 1981. The headline of the paper concerns North Texas making it into the hockey conference. In the top left corner is a hockey handle graphic. Under the title is the article title that says: NT in Hockey Conference.

Photograph of the book, The Men and Women in World War II from Denton County. The book contains photographs and biographical information on the men and women who served in the armed forces in World War II and was published in 1945. The book is white and has a textured surface. At the top of it is an emblem of the American flag (without the stars). The words are engraved in the same white surface, the first four words of the book title are diagonal from left to right.

Photograph of a Necessary Roughness plastic cup, held by UNT Special Collections. The cup has the Paramount Pictures logo printed in UNT green with Necessary Roughness in bold text. In a small cursive the words, "I helped make it happen! are printed at the bottom." UNT’s buildings and football field served as the backdrop for the 1991 football comedy film Necessary Roughness. The University was compensated $65,000 for use of its facilities. In the movie, the fictional Texas State Armadillos follows a string of successful seasons with a host of NCAA violations.

Photograph of the North Texas Centennial Medallion, held by UNT Special Collections. The medallion is bronze in color and held on a yellow ribbon. The centerpiece design is the University's clocktower and the text reads the University of North Texas Centennial 1890-1990. In 1990 UNT kicked off a full year of celebration to mark the university’s 100th anniversary.

Photograph of a North Texas Hockey Club shirt, held by UNT Special Collections. The shirt is white with green long sleeves. On the front of the shirt are the words North Texas Hockey Club, the T in Texas shaped like a hockey stick.

Photograph of President Nolen's ceremonial mace, held by UNT Special Collections. The maces is wooden in composition, on top of which is a silver figure of an eagle. On each side of the mace is a shiny quarter. The surface of the wooden mace is smooth and shiny. This ceremonial mace was carried by UNT President Calvin Cleave Nolen (1971 – 1979) during formal processions like graduation. Nolen’s mace features an embedded quarter from each year the University had changed its name through the 1970s.

Photograph of the Grover Lewis' Samuel French Award, held by UNT Special Collections. The award is a smooth, black rectangle. The top of it has a golden emblem of two masks and a dragon-like figure, the name of the award around inside it. At the bottom is a gold rectangle with the information on the presentation of the award. The Samuel French Award presented to North Texas State College in 1958 for Grover Lewis' performance at the National Collegiate Playwriting Contest for “Wait For Morning, Child."

Photograph of a Sunbelt Championship pendant, held by UNT Special Collections. The pendant is dark grey in color, the word Champions engraved at the bottom. The middle of the pendant is in the shape of a football, studded with clear and green gems. The pendant is not attached to anything. Awarded to North Texas for winning the Sunbelt Football Championship

Photograph of a large number of people attending a dance in a gymnasium. The men are dressed in army uniforms; the women are wearing dark-colored dresses and heels. The wall behind them is all multi-paned windows and there is a basketball hoop above. The soldiers were housed on campus, and those from nearby camps were also guests at dances held on campus.

Photograph of women training on a fire drill tower. The tower is approximately three stories tall and ladders are propped against the building on the three sides. In April 1942 the Women’s Defense Corps was formed at UNT. The primary purpose of the organization was to train college women to organize their hometown defense and to instruct their fellow citizens in home defense. Training in the first aid, firefighting, the use of gas masks, and ambulance driving was included in this program.

Photograph of one of several military units training at North Texas parades down Denton’s Theater Row in 1942. From September 1942 to December 1943, training detachments of the Army Air Forces were housed in Chilton Hall. The military soldiers are seen marching down a street by a row of shops in a downtown area. Cars are parked in front of the shops, one of them titled Theatre Row.