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Pottery lamp created by Beaumont Mood for O'Neil Ford's municipal swimming pool. It has numerous bands in five different colors and various patterns, including an atomic starburst. <br />
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This particular pottery lamp had once hung under the pergola surrounding the pool, but was used as a replacement for one of the broken pottery lamps. <br />
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It now hangs on the perimeter of the swimming pool.<br />
This style of pottery light had originally hung from the pergola, however, because so many pottery lights around the perimeter were damaged it was removed to replace one of the missing ones.

A cylinder made from white clay, with four bands of…

Close-up photo of two Beaumont Mood pendant lamps hanging from a metal light post on the perimeter of the municipal swimming pool located in Denton, Texas.
Twenty-four pendant lamps hang around the perimeter of the Denton Municipal Swimming Pool.

Each of these pottery lamps was fabricated by Beaumont Mood in the basement studio of the home he shared with his wife, Martha Mood, in San Antonio, Texas.…

Two photographs of men working on the Municipal Swimming Pool. This photo was taken in 1983, probably just before the pool opened for the summer.

Photo of the Popo & Lupe Hairstyling sign board in Denton, Texas. It is yellow with red and black lettering. There is a line drawing of a faceless man and woman on the top.
Photo of the Popo & Lupe Hairstyling sign board in Denton, Texas. It is yellow with red and black lettering. There is a line drawing of a faceless man and woman on the top.

Ten Beaumont Mood flush-mount ceramic lights hang from a suspended ceiling. They are a salmon color with an "elephant blue" band at the top.
Ten Beamont Mood ceramic lamps hang from a dropped ceiling. They are a salmon color with an elephant blue glaze, said to be a favorite color of O'Neil Fords.

The area was created during the 1968 expansion of the building.

The suspended ceiling…

This Beaumont Mood pottery urn was commissioned by O'Neil Ford for the library's 1969 expansion. <br />
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It currently lives in the library director's office at the Emily Fowler Library.
Another pottery urn made by Beaumont Mood. This particular urn is located in the library director's office. It is also made from red clay and has a pinkish-hue and a rust-colored glaze; the shape is conical.

The condition: has several cracks…

Photograph of another Beaumont Mood urn. It measures 26 3/4" tall x 10 3/4 dia; 1/2" thick. The salmon-colored clay has bands of color in brown and elephant blue.
Another pottery urn made by Beaumont Mood in an office of the Emily Fowler Library. There are other matching urns in a separate cabinet.

This salmon-colored vessel has colors in reddish, elephant blue, and brown with various Greek meander…

Two matching pottery urns measuring 26 5/8" tall x 10 3/4" dia. The salmon-colored clay has bands of reddish, elephant blue, and brown with various Greek meander patterns.
Two tall cylindrical vessels with geometric patterns in reddish, blue, and brown, made by Beaumont Mood. They reside in a cabinet at the Emily Fowler Central Library. The containers were commissioned by O'Neil Ford as part of the 1968 renovation of…
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