The HistoryMakers video oral history with Nathan Jones.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 49 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Jones, Nathan, -- 1942- -- Interviews.
Jones, Nathan, -- 1942-
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318272
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Nathan Jones
Nathan Jones
Other authors / contributors:Jones, Nathan, 1942- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Dallas, Texas 2007 August 14.
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Summary:Painter, architect and inventor Nathan Jones was born on June 27, 1942. Jones attended Texas Southern University before transferring to the Columbus College of Art and Design after receiving a scholarship. He then returned to Texas to attend the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied architecture for two years. Jones also attended El Centro College, then the University of Dallas for lithography and Eastfield College to study printing. In 1975, Jones had his first museum show at the Midland Museum of Fine Arts where he sold twenty-five paintings for $30,000. He exhibited his art in Houston throughout the 1970s. Jones invented the Multi Caddy to clean golf equipment and founded Multi-Golf Systems International to sell his golf products. Interested in architecture, Jones founded N.J.K. Properties in 1992, designing a number of buildings in Texas. Jones created an authentic historical art series with his Buffalo Soldier paintings.