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Museum replica of the Rosetta Stone. It was once made available for customers to check out. It is 34" x 30" x 1" 1/2 and currently hangs on the east wall in the Special Collections Department. The condition is fair, with material missing, along the edges and paint that has rubbed off on the bottom fourth of the object.
Museum replica of the Rosetta Stone. It was once made available for customers to check out. It is 34" x 30" x 1" 1/2 and currently hangs on the east wall in the Special Collections Department. The condition is fair, with material missing, along the…

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Photo of people participating in the official ribbon-cutting of the Goldfield Tennis Center. Ray Stephens, is third from the left.

Portrait of Ronnie Roberts, former Vice Chairman of the Parks Board.

Row of Beaumont Mood pottery lamps
A row of globe-shaped pottery lamps made Beaumont Mood hang under the breezeway in front of the entrance of the Denton Civic Center. The lights were commissioned by O'Neil Ford for the new building.

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This photo was taken from the front entrance, looking north towards the parking lot. There is a covered breezeway with several flush-mount pottery lamps made by the Beaumont Mood Lighting Co.
Ten flush-mounted terracotta light fixtures line the underside of the covered breezeway in front of the Emily Fowler Library.

The fixtures were made by Ceramic Design out of San Antonio for the library's 1981 expansion.

The prefabricated…

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Saltillo tiles shine inside City Hall in Denton, Texas. This is the entrance on the east side of the building. A salvaged O'Neil Ford door is on display.
Saltillo tiles run through the interior hallways of Denton City Hall. They were part of O'Neil Ford's design.

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This map is "Sheet 16" of the 1921 Denton Sanborn Map. The map is nine blocks wide by 4 blocks long. It is bordered by the College of Industrial Arts (now TWU) to the north and the city to the south. The streets are labeled. The homes and buildings are labeled with names or street numbers. The map scale is 100 ft. to an inch.

Photos taken of the Scripture Building in 2015 by Alec Williams. He was photographing the mural process.

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Small sculpture made from clay of the head of a dog on a black plastic base. There are some nicks and the left ear is missing. Some evidence of peeled-off stickers underside. One of the photographs is from 2018 and the other was taken sometime in the 1970s.
Small sculpture made from clay of the head of a dog on a black plastic base. There are some nicks and the left ear is missing. Some evidence of peeled-off stickers underside. One of the photographs is from 2018 and the other was taken sometime in the…

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Grey and black tapestry of a lion on a pedestal with the word "Babylon" under mats on beige background. The frame measures: 13" 3/4 x 15" 1/4. There are chips along the bottom, right and lower left of the frame.<br /> There is a plaque attached to the glass: "Seal of Babylon, presented by Mayor Mohssen Saheb Al-Safor of City of Babylon, Iraq, June 17, 1980."
Grey and black tapestry of a lion on a pedestal with the word "Babylon" under mats on beige background. The frame measures: 13" 3/4 x 15" 1/4. There are chips along the bottom, right and lower left of the frame.
There is a plaque attached to the…

Two women working at the Service Desk at Denia Recreation Center are giving a basketball to a boy at the window. There is a woman beside him. In the background is a room with a pool table and a foosball table.

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