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Christmas Parade on Main Street

Description: Photograph of the annual Christmas Parade moving south on Main Street, Taylor. Santa is on a float with his sleigh pulled by a jeep. Behind Santa Claus is a marching band. Spectators are lined up on either side of the street in front of the downtown businesses.
Date: 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Taylor Public Library

[Photograph of Todd Bradford Willis and John Todd Willis, Jr.]

Description: Photograph of Todd Bradford Willis and John Todd Willis, Jr. decorating a Christmas tree in the living room at 210 N. 30th Street in Waco, Texas. Brad Willis holds an ornament up to the tree, while Todd Willis leans down to investigate. A lamp and two round pictures on the wall are visible behind him.
Date: [1955-12..1960-12]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.537409009745733 -97.15652800000004
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Todd Bradford Willis Decorating a Christmas Tree]

Description: Photograph of Todd Bradford Willis reaching up to put an ornament on a Christmas tree at 210 North 30th Street in Waco. The tree has bulbs, ornaments, and tinsel on it, and a white embroidered tree skirt underneath it. A clock, figurines, and Brad's Christmas stocking are visible on the fireplace mantel in the background.
Date: [1955..1960]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.537409009745733 -97.15652800000004
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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[Riley Family Films, No. 9 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1955]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including the first birthday of the Riley family's youngest daughter with Helen helping her blow out the candles and eat the cake (00:00-02:34), children playing outdoors and posing for the camera (02:34-06:23), and a Christmas celebration with footage of the tree and Christmas toys and family posing with cards and gifts.
Date: 1955
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Hill Family Films, No. 8 - Life with the Hill Family, 1955-1956]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family in 1955-1956. The film begins with no visible image (00:00-00:24) and a visit from a couple and their daughter (00:24-00:40). A title card reads "The Big Deer Hunt" "Nov. 55" (00:40) and is followed by footage of men at a campsite shooting, posing with rifles, chopping wood, eating, and a bloody foot (03:50-04:13). A title card reads "Dam Tuttle" (04:13) and is followed by footage of a man walking into a house, o… more
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 21 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[McNeill Family Films, No. 1 - Holidays and Family Gatherings]

Description: The film begins with footage of Virginia McNeill, pregnant with her first child, and her husband Charlie Wayne McNeill playing with a dog and cat at the home of Charlie’s parents, F.C. “Clarence” McNeill and step-mother Gladys McNeill, on Mission Street in Denton. Charlie wears a Tyler Junior College letterman jacket. A car arrives carrying F.C. and Gladys McNeill and Glen and Anna Key (00:00-01:21). At their home on Bernard Street, Virginia and Charlie play with a dog (01:21-02:00). In the n… more
Date: 1955/1957
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: McNeill, Virginia & McNeill, Charlie Wayne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.216284 -97.135631
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including the groundbreaking ceremony for a Dallas building with the Gibralter building in the background (00:00 - 02:07; children painting birdhouses and playing football (02:07 - 04:07); a birthday celebration (04:27 - 06:43), billboards for the Santa Fe railroad service to Dallas (06:43 - 07:07); a Ford Farming building in the snow (07:07 - 11:45); a family vacation to Paradise Valley Country Club in … more
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 54 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.531154 -111.942645
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[News Clip: Kanady tells of red prison life]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Houston man, Dilmus Kenady, spending his first Christmas in nine years with his family after being wrongly imprisoned in China.
Date: December 21, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Unique Yule party for blind children]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the West Side Lions Club sponsoring a Christmas party for blind children at the Children's Museum.
Date: December 25, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Mary Jean Thorne, January 25, 1955]

Description: Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Mary Jean Thorne updating her on many happenings including plans to visit Plantersville, Mr. and Mrs. Kempner's colds, plans to visit Paragould, Mrs. Thorne's Christmas card list, a suggestion to invite Angelika Frink and Ethelbert Warfield out for drinks, Henrietta Leonora and Edward Randall Thompson's trip to Mexico, a bank account for Daniel Kempner Thorne, and updates on Mr. Webster.
Date: January 27, 1955
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from Charlotte Chancellor to Jeane Bertig Kempner, December 26, 1955]

Description: Letter from Charlotte Chancellor to Jeane Bertig Kempner thanking her for the breakfast tray set she had given her for Christmas. Mrs. Chancellor also informs Mrs. Kempner that she has not yet sent Daniel W. Kempner a letter of condolence yet and notes how quickly Daniel Kempner Thorne is growing up.
Date: December 26, 1955
Creator: Chancellor, Charlotte
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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