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Six photos taken of the old Gulf Filling Station located at the corner of S. Locust & McKinney Street when it was the headquarters for the 35 Denton Music Festival.

Miscellaneous old signs that have been "uncovered" underneath.

Photos taken of the Fine Arts Theater located at 115 N Elm Street, Denton, Texas.

Photo taken of the old Gulf Station in Denton, Texas by librarian Chuck Voellinger. His Chevy Impala is parked beside the station. The building is all white with blue trim. There is an original "Gulf" sign on the left.

A photo taken of the sign for Strande's Garage located at 706 E. McKinney in Denton, Texas.

Photo taken of the sign for Holiday Lodge hotel, located 1112 E. University Drive in Denton, Texas.

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.

Four-ton all-metal sculpture, salvaged from the remains of the old Kimbell Flour Mill, Trinity Industries, and Harpool's Seed Cleaning Plant, all businesses from Denton, Texas. The metal had sat in a "junk" pile behind Harpool Seed's grain elevator…

Panel of carvings by the late Lynn Ford, brother of the architect O'Neil Ford, who designed the library.

From "Library's architecture, art a family affair," 10/02/1981, Denton Record-Chronicle:

Authella Ford Hersh, their sister, and her…

This ceramic light fixture shell was fabricated by Beaumont Mood of San Antonio, Texas. It was commissioned by O'Neil Ford in 1968 for the Emily Fowler Central Library. It is 16" x 16" with geometric patterns and blue, brown, and white glaze. It has…

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…

A painting of the Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square by Mark Smith, formerly of Denton, hangs beside the Accounts Desk of the Emily Fowler Central Library.

During the 1968 expansion of the Emily Fowler Library, O'Neil Ford designed and commissioned a concrete lattice built on the south side of the library to enclose a courtyard built for children only. A pergola and hanging pottery lamps, a brick…

A row of pendant lamps hanging at the east end of the lower level of the Emily Fowler Central Library.

Architect O'Neil Ford had originally commissioned three lamps of a different pattern and deeper hue, but two were presumably broken and…

This long planter made by Lynn Ford is displayed atop a long shelf at the Emily Fowler Central Library.

The planter was made around 1968. From 1969 until 2002, it was located in the library director's office.

During the library's…