Photograph of the Turtle Creek Chorale performing at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. A group of seven men are seen performing in a carpeted room, with the men holding binders open in front of them and all of them wearing a black shirt and pants. Most of the men wear ties, one wears red suspenders and another an orange hat. A projector screen can be seen behind them. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and works to support the arts and the …

Photograph of a panel at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story, held by UNT Special Collections. The photo is an angled view of a panel that is made up of five people sitting behind a table covered in a black cloth. The people on the panel each have a name tag propped in front of them, from left to right the names are: Kathleen Hobson-Bond, Daryl Curry, Michael Sullivan, Bruce Jaster, and Kevin Hodges. Behind them on the left is a partially seen projector screen. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the …

Photograph of a panel at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story, held by UNT Special Collections. The photo is a far away view of a panel that is made up of five people sitting behind a table covered in a black cloth. They are seen from the front and a few people are seen sitting in rows of chairs watching the panel, with a projector screen behind the panel on the right. The screen is titled "Panel Discussion" with information on the panel speakers. The people on the panel each have a name tag propped in front of them, from left to right the names are: Kathleen Hobson-Bond, Daryl Curry, Michael Sullivan, Bruce Jaster, and Kevin Hodges. Behind them on the left is a partially seen projector screen. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that …

Photograph of Morgan Gieringer speaking at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. Morgan Gieringer has short brown hair, is wearing dressy pants, blouse and a black blazer stands in front of a microphone, speaking to an audience in a carpeted room. Behind her on the left is a long table with a black tablecloth with microphones disperse along it. Behind her on the right is a screen projector showing a photo of a choir of men, and titled Turtle Creek Chorale Documentary & Program. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an …

Photograph of people standing around a table at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. An older man and an older women in darker clothing stand with a younger woman in a red dress around a table with a black cloth, a small vase of flowers in the middle. Behind them is another group of people standing around a similar table. The room they are in has a simple carpet, in the bottom right corner are chairs with a person partially seen in one of them. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is …

Photograph of the Turtle Creek Chorale performing at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. A group of seven men can be seen performing, wearing all lack except for their ties. In the middle one man has a pale blue tie and the other yellow. They stand with two microphones in front of them, and a projector screen behind them. In the bottom right corner a few people watching the performance can be seen. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and works to support …

Photograph of the Turtle Creek Chorale performing at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. The members of it shown are a group of seven diverse men. They are all dressed up in black pants and long sleeve dress shirts and ties of different colors. They are standing behind 2 microphones on stands, in a carpeted room with a projector screen behind them. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and works to support the arts and the LGBT community by performing at charitable events …

Photograph of a panel at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story, held by UNT Special Collections. The panel is made up of five people sitting behind a table covered in a black cloth. The people on the panel each have a name tag propped in front of them, from left to right the names are: Kathleen Hobson-Bond, Daryl Curry, Michael Sullivan, Bruce Jaster, and Kevin Hodges. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and works to support the arts and the LGBT community by performing at charitable events alongside …

Photograph of the Turtle Creek Chorale performing at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. A group of ten men are seen performing with microphones in front of them in a carpeted room. They all wear a black shirt and pants, some with colorful ties, suspenders, or a vest. They hold a binder in front of them as they sing, and in the bottom left corner of the picture a partial audience can be seen watching them. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and …

Photograph of the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. The photo shows a dark room with rows of people sitting in chairs watching a projector screen showing a scene of a room full of men holding binders containing sheet music while singing, with the title "The Turtle Creek Chorale" in the bottom right corner. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and works to support the arts and the LGBT community by performing at charitable events alongside their regular programming. 1985 marked the first HIV/AIDS …

Photograph of a panel at the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story, held by UNT Special Collections. The photo is a closeup of an angled view of a panel that is made up of five people sitting behind a table covered in a black cloth. The people on the panel each have a name tag propped in front of them, from left to right the names are: Kathleen Hobson-Bond, Daryl Curry, Michael Sullivan, Bruce Jaster, and Kevin Hodges. Behind them on the left is a partially seen projector screen. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important …

Photograph of the screening of the Turtle Creek Chorale documentary "After Goodbye: An AIDS Story," held by UNT Special Collections. The photo shows a projector screen showing the title of the documentary with the caption "and public television stations" at the top. The room has the lights turned off, and people can be seen seated in rows of chairs watching the screen. An organization that was notably affected by the AIDS crisis, is the Turtle Creek Chorale, a Dallas based men’s chorus. The group was formed in 1980 with 30 members and Harry E. Scher in the role of artistic director and conductor. The group sang together at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, taking on the name Turtle Creek Chorale as an allusion to the small tributary that passes through Oak Lawn. Today, the Chorale has over 200 dues paying members, consisting mostly of gay men, and is the most recorded men’s chorus in the world, with thirty-eight recordings and two feature-length documentaries. The Chorale is an important part of the Dallas arts community and works to support the arts and the LGBT community by performing at charitable events alongside their regular programming. 1985 marked the first HIV/AIDS infection in the …

Photograph of the cover of "The Winchester Psalter Miniature Cycle," held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is bright red and has an intricate gold design on the front, the frame of it filled in with black. This facsimile includes a cycle of miniatures depicting scenes from the Old Testament, the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary, and the Second Coming and Last Judgment. The original psalter was created in the 12th century under the patronage of Henry of Blois in Winchester, England. A psalter is a book of psalms. Psalms are a collection of religious verses that were recited or sung in Jewish and Christian worship and are included in Bibles. A psalter also contains other devotional material such as the liturgical calendar and the litany of the Saints.

Photographs of an illustration in "Paper Pools" held by UNT Special Collections. The illustration of a mermaid with a white tail in a swimming pool expands over two pages. There is a tan diving board on the left with its shadow in the water, and the mermaid on the right. Image 2, the cover of "Paper Pools." It is light grey with an illustration of a mermaid in a swimming pool covering most of the front, the title at the top. The name of the author is in black and the title in white. This is the same on the thin spine. Paper Pools shows a series of work created by Hockney using a technique of creating an image in colored paper pulps. This series is the only time he used this technique, which allowed him to explore the refraction of light through the gently moving water. This book is signed by the artist.

Photographs of "Experiments and Observations on Electricity," held by UNT Special Collections. The first is of the cover, which is a brown/orange color, the title on the spine and lines of gold spaced out on it. The second is of a diagram in "Experiments and Observations on Electricity." The page on the left is titled "Letters and Papers," numbered 232 and filled with text. The page on the right is a diagram that is extended out beyond the page. The diagram has a circle made of arrows in the bottom right corner, and a long drawing extended on the left side, cloud-like at the top. In the middle of the diagram is a table of numbers. During the mid 1700s, scientists were conducting a great number of experiments related to electricity, with Benjamin Franklin famously discovering that lightning is an electrical phenomenon by tying a key to a kite string. Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity is the first publication to prove lighting is an electrical phenomenon.

Photographs of a Radio Shack guide titled "Guide to 10-codes and CB slang," held by UNT Special Collections as part of the Radio Shack and Tandy Corporation Collection. The guide is a white slip with the words CB Slang on the side followed by a list of words or phrases. On the right are a couple of pictures of people with phones/technology, the words "Radio Shack" at the bottom left in red. The second image is of a remote-like item that has the title at the bottom in red. Above that is a black knob with numbers around it, and above that are three switches. The top of the remote has three knobs. Founded in 1921, Radio Shack began as a small supplier of ham radio equipment, eventually moving into the realm of high fidelity stereo equipment. In 1962, the Fort Worth, Texas based Tandy Corporation purchased Radio Shack and transformed the business model to include an abundance of small storefronts, a refocus on selling only electronics, and eventually adding a repair shop service. In 2015 and 2017, after years of changes in the electronics market and declining sales, Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, though it still sells through a …

Photographs of the Bell Helicopter 429 model, held by UNT Special Collections as part of the Bell Helicopter Records. The model is dark red in color with a white slash and the number 429 in white on its side. Aviation pioneer Lawrence Dale Bell founded the Bell Aircraft Corporation in Buffalo, NY in 1935. When the helicopter division began to thrive, in 1951, the division established a new headquarters in Hurst, TX. The corporation was purchased by Textron in 1960 and established Bell Helicopter as a separate corporation.

Photographs of pages from Russell Maret's "Linear A to Linear Z," held by UNT Special Collections. The first picture is of a white page with only two small lines of writing on it that say "A letterform is a spatial disturbance; an act of interference with an otherwise passive grid." Image 2, the letter F. This is a white page with a black rectangle in the middle of it filled with many tiny white dots inside of it. Image 3, the letter X. This is a white page with a black rectangle in the middle of it. On the right and left side of the black box are diagonal white lines that meet in the middle to look like and abstract X. Linear A to Linear Z offers Russell Maret's take on letterforms, revealing the interesting diversity of the letters of the alphabet. Because of the difficulty he faced with the rounded letterforms, Maret eventually settled on utilizing not only straight lines, but also dots and wedge shapes to show the varying beauty that can be found in simple design and common forms.

Photographs of the structure of Julie Chen's "Chrysalis," held by UNT Special Collections. The exterior structure of Julie Chen's Chrysalis folds together with magnets to hold a shape similar to that of a chrysalis, the structure in which caterpillars encase themselves to transform into butterflies. The lid of the box has information about the chrysalis on the inside. The pages of the book inside are designed to look like MRI scans of a brain, and the text describes the “involuntary metamorphosis” that a person must undergo when working their way through the process of grief. Image 2, slightly open chrysalis. The inside is red with circular designs on it. Tucked inside are black half circle pages, containing small white lines of words. Image 3, open chrysalis. The book is extended out with the red inside with circular design opened up like wings on each side. The black half circle pages are in the middle, showing some of the words inside white lines.

Photographs of Amy Lund's "Hygge," held by UNT Special Collections. The first is of writing on top of the box, which has white writing in a square in the middle of the box. The second image is "Hygge" from the top. The paper structure is propped up to look like the structure of a house, the left side red and the right side is grey. The third image is of the front of "Hygge." This shows the front of the house structure showing the left red and right grey side. The inside of the house is lit up a bright yellow. This small paper house captures the inviting feeling of comfort and simple domestic pleasures. With its soft paper made from worn clothes and a small tea candle that flickers a warm yellow light within, Amy Lund’s "Hygge" truly reflects the meaning of this Scandinavian word. Text around the base of the house reads: “We are the product of our past and producer of our future. We maintain our sanity and human-ness – we cope. We give ourselves permission to reinterpret tradition. We start small we start at Home. Welcome.” Text on floor of house reads: “Home is the emotional …

Photographs of the covers of "Paradise Lost" by John Milton, held by UNT Special Collections. The covers are deep red, with an intricate gold design on the front and the spine, the spine containing the title. The book on the left is Vol 1 and the right Vol 2. Image 2, illustration inside "Paradise Lost." The black and white illustration is of a woman in the middle of a dark forest. She stands by a thick, tall tree, a snake wrapped around one of the branches. Image 3, frontispiece of "Paradise Lost." The illustration is on the inside left of the book where part of the red-gold cover is seen. It is titled "Arthur Stannard Vernay," depicting an empty room with a chair and a desk, knight's armor standing in the corner, and the walls filled with different objects. This copy of John Milton’s "Paradise Lost" contains 24 illustrations created especially for this publication, by famed British artist John Martin. Influences from this epic poem, detailing the biblical creation and fall of man, are evident throughout Frankenstein. Shelley included a line from the poem on the title page of the 1818 edition of Frankenstein, “Did I request thee, Maker, from …

Photograph of illustrations inside Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein", held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is orange with the title on the spine, by it a red book seen by its closed pages. Image 2, frontispiece of "Frankenstein." The black and white illustration on the left page is of a naked man on the floor on top of bones covered by cloth, a man stands with a frightened expression behind him holding a long pole in his hand. The page on the right contains an illustration of a young man walking away from a woman in a doorway. The title and author are above the illustration, and below it is the quote "The day of my departure at length arrived" in cursive script. The illustration on the left of this copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, depicts the moment the creature awoke and his creator fled from the room. The illustration on the right depicts Victor Frankenstein at a young age leaving his family to study abroad. This is the first illustrated edition, and third publication of the book. It is bound with the unfinished novel The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller, which contains many similar elements to Frankenstein, including necromancy.

Photographs of the cover and pages from George W. Sheldon's "Selections in Modern Art," held by UNT Special Collections. These volumes contain 125 plates of steel engravings and etchings representing works of recent and contemporary artists of the late 19th century. The etching Cedars by Moonlight by James Smillies, 1878, is one of the earliest instances of an American etcher beginning to differentiate between daylight and moonlight, a distinction easier made in theory than in practice. The cover is a severely worn brown leather, the front of it containing the title over an illustration of a woman etched in gold and black. The spine contains the title. Image 2, a page containing an illustration called Cedars by Moonlight by James Smillie. The illustration is black and white and is of cedar trees standing tall atop a hill on a cloudy night, the moon partially hidden behind the cloudy sky. Image 3, a page containing an illustration called "Homeless" by Gustave Doré. The black and white illustration is of a woman in a long raggedy dress. She is holding a child covered in raggedy robes a hood partially covering his/her face. They are both barefoot and have a forlorn look on …

Photographs of Henri Matisse's "Jazz", held by UNT Special Collections. Jazz is a series of works by artist Henri Matisse, which shows circus scenes cut out of colored paper. This is the first example of Matisse working in this way, which would eventually be his main method of creating art. The cover contains the title in pink lettering, and one of his works on the right with different blocks of color. Image 2, the page shown is titled “Nightmare of the White Elephant” and shows a circus elephant performing a trick. Matisse described the elephant as dreaming of his long-lost childhood in the jungle, with the red flames symbolizing his anguish.