Photograph of Blair Underwood (right) receiving the Luminary Arts Award at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. This image is a still taken from the video recording of the event. Underwood is standing on stage with Curtis King and eight TBAAL students. He is facing to the left of the camera, holding the award in his right hand and a microphone in his left hand. He appears to be speaking. Members of the audience can be seen sitting in the bottom portion of the photograph with their backs turned to the camera.

Photograph of Blair Underwood having his picture taken with another man and a woman at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. They are standing side by side, facing to the right of the camera and smiling. Other guests can be seen around them in the foreground and background of the photograph.

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 Camille DeVore and her vocal jazz group at Thursday Night Music hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) gallery on the Square in downtown Denton.

Photograph of Camille DeVore and her vocal jazz group at Thursday Night Music hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) gallery on the Square in downtown Denton.

Photograph of Camille DeVore and her vocal jazz group at Thursday Night Music hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) gallery on the Square in downtown Denton.

Photograph of Carol Guzy, a four time Pulitzer recipient, at the "Visual Storytelling: Pulitzers through Pictures" panel session, sitting at a table with microphones. She is looking to her left. The session was held during the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX.

Photograph of Casey Manuel holding his Ten Spurs second place award for Personal Essay. He received the honor at the Literary Lights Dinner during the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The dinner was held in the International Ballroom at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX.

Photographs of "Cease Firing: Fifty Poems of the New Peace," held by UNT Special Collections. The first image is the cover of "Cease Firing," blue/green color with the title imprinted in gold at the top in between three lines of gold. The second image is of the title page and frontispiece. The frontispiece is a black and white illustration with the words piece at the top made up of small birds. Image 3, poem titled "Peace Shall Live" expanding over two pages. At the very top of the left page it is titled "Cease Firing" and the top of the right page titled "Seek Peace and Pursue It."

Photograph of Dr. Charles Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and author, standing at a podium during his keynote. The audience attending the keynote is included in the picture. The event was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.

Photograph of Dr. Charles Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and author, standing at a podium during his keynote. The event was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.

Photograph of Dr. Charles Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and author, signing a keynote attendee's copy of one of his books. He is sitting down at one of the tables in the conference and auditorium room where his keynote was given. Jesika Fisher is standing behind him with other attendees. The event was a part of the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference in Grapevine, TX.

Photograph of Dr. Charles Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and author, standing at a podium during his keynote. The event was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.

Photograph of Dr. Charles Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and author of the book "The Way of the Writer", standing at a podium during his keynote. The event was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.

Photograph of the check-in tables on the third day of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference that was held at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas. There are three people sitting and two people standing behind a row of tables with information cards on top. Behind them are rows of bags that will be handed out to guests.

Photographs of "Chicago Poems" by Carl Sandburg, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark green with the title and author in gold lettering at the top and the front framed by a gold line. Image 2, open book with the page on the right titled "Killers" and the left page blank. Image 3, pages 86 and 87. Page 87 contains a poem titled "Among the Red Guns."

Photograph of a Chinese dragon on UNT campus.

Photograph of a Chinese dragon on UNT campus.

Newspaper clipping taken from The Dallas Morning News true romance section titled "Fifty years together, lived out loud". The article, written by Kathleen Green, was published in the Sunday paper on January 23, 2011. The article highlights the 50th anniversary of Jack Evans and George Harris with personal statements, anecdotes and the couples plans for the future.

This clipping is a memorial article about Karen Estes, Former Resource Center co-Executive Director, and her work as an ally for the LGBT community.

Photograph of the cover of "The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke" by Rupert Brooke, held by UNT Special Collections. The simple black book has the title in a white box at the top, framed by an orange line. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was the son of a Rugby schoolmaster and attended school at Rugby and later at King’s College of Cambridge University. After completing his education, Brooke continued writing poetry and became one of the founders of the first anthology of Georgian Poetry. Now little studied, it was a dominant poetic movement of the time until it was supplanted by Imagism and the High Modernism of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W. B. Yeats. While not as experimental as the Modernists, the Georgian poets did look to free poetry from the ornate language of Victorian verse and employ in its place plain and concrete language. Along with the Georgian poets, Brooke also interacted with members of the influential Bloomsbury Group, which included such prominent writers as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. When war broke out, Brooke enlisted but never saw combat, instead dying of illness in March 1915 on his way to Gallipoli. Despite this, Brooke became a touchstone …

Photograph of four Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference attendees seated at a table for the Literary Lights Dinner. The dinner was held as a part of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and took place in the International Ballroom at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.