Texas Industrial Arts Association Publications and Records Collection<\/a> at UNT\u2019s Special Collections offers photographs, publications, and correspondence from 1946 to 2004. Items in this collection illustrate the importance of industrial arts to students, teachers, and the communities in which they lived.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n
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