Tony Page papers, 1911-1981 1950-1980.

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Tony Page papers, 1911-1981 1950-1980.

Contains personal papers, business records, court documents, private and business correspondence, documents, clippings and magazines, photographs and slides, newsletters, press releases, moving film, reel-to-reel as well as cassette tapes, original cartoons, brochures, advertisement, flyers, ephemera, memorabilia, prints, awards, minutes, by-laws, notes, listings, directories, reports, charts, speeches and narratives, maps, graphics, time-tables, certificates, and other materials that were created and/or collected during Tony Page's life and as editor and publisher of the Cross Country News journal. The Tony Page Papers are housed in seventy-five manuscript boxes, one half-size manuscript box, and five non-standard boxes of various sizes totaling 34.44 linear feet. In the first series Tony Page's vita can be reconstructed through photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, narratives, and personal legal documents in addition to speeches, manuscripts, and rough drafts of articles that she wrote. The awards that she received are very well documented trough photographs and newspaper articles. Of interest are a collection of clippings about Page's life in Box 2, Folder 3. Important are Series II through V since they reflect the business records of the Cross Country News publication. A large amount of photographs that were sent to Cross Country News for possible publication can be found here as well as. Some images are of celebrities. Series X deals with UFOs and Series XIII contains in part original cartoons that were published in the journal. The photographs are the strength of this collection which amount to about 3,000 in addition to the clippings and press releases. Though mainly aviation related, the Tony Page Papers offer a wide variety of topics that can be researched such as Gender Studies, Women Studies, women as owners of businesses, women in advertisement or journalism. The collection can also be used for local Fort Worth or Texas history.

34.44 linear ft.

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