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The Portal to Texas History Yeah! Yearbooks for the University of North Texas are now online and searchable
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Yearbook for North Texas State Normal College in Denton, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.
The Portal to Texas History Check out the news for this day in 1836 from the Telegraph and Texas Register. . . the schooner Flora was stuck on a bar in the Brazos - injuries unknown, and the completed plans for the City of Houston made "almost without mathematical instruments" could be seen and reviewed on the Senate floor.
Telegraph and Texas Register (Columbia, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 19, 1836 Th
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Weekly newspaper from Columbia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
The Portal to Texas History Surely this is one of our most interesting collections to date -- photographs from the Dallas Police Department's investigation of the JFK assassination. Many thanks to our partners at the Dallas Municipal Archives and the Summerlee Foundation for funding Rescuing Texas this past year.
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Copy negative of the interior of the School Book Depository in Dallas. There are multiple closed boxes on a wooden floor. The photograph was taken on the sixth floor of the depository, forty feet from the window the shot was fired from.
The Portal to Texas History John Wayne!! We uploaded about 10,000 copy negatives from our partners at Hardin Simmons, and they had a small cache of John Wayne photos from when he was filming The War Wagon out in west Texas
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Copy photograph of John Wayne and another actor on bridge supports exchanging what looks like a bottle of liquor. Both men are in cowboy costume.
The Portal to Texas History We had a great time this weekend at the Texas Council for the Social Studies! We met a few thousand history teachers and passed out lots of great free stuff for the classroom.
The Portal to Texas History Happy Halloween, y'all!
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Color Halloween postcard depicting two babies wearing hats running past a jack-o-lantern sitting on a fence post. An over-turned bucket lies on the ground. Printed below them are the words, "The Bogie Man." Correspondence reads, "How's the little girl? We have been [ ] It is hot. ...
Martin Halbert Outstanding site, folks.
The Portal to Texas History Exciting new things are happening a the Portal today! We've released some exciting new features you should check out: facets to limit search results by Collection, Partner, County, Decade, or type; ability to 'Return to Search Results'; and RSS feeds of the newest content that matches your search. We're very intereste...d in your feedback, so please explore the Portal and take 3 minutes to complete a brief survey. Select 'Brief Survey' from any Portal page. We've done a search for 'murder' to show you what it looks like!
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A large group of unidentified people are at the Denton County Jail located on Elm Street awaiting the hanging of J. Q. A. Crews. Crews was the last person to be hanged in Denton County. He was hanged for the murder of the Murrell family in Cooke County.
See MoreThe Portal to Texas History Also new this week are 200 historic maps from UTA's Special Collections - awesome stuff dating from 1665 - 1907.
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This map shows the western hemisphere including North and South America and the surrounding areas. Bodies of water and geographic features are marked pictorially. There are illustrations of ships in various places around the map.
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Just uploaded a really great new collection from the Petroleum Museum in Midland. These photos are diverse in content, covering West Texas ranching heritage,
life in the Permian Basin boom towns, and early oilfield camps. The
images date from the 1890s to 1950s.
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On this date in 1908, citizens of Hereford gathered on Main Street http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/m
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Citizens on Main Street in Hereford, TX on October 9, 1908.
The Portal to Texas History Woot! The UNT Libraries awarded an IMLS grant for "Classification of Government Websites in the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Depository Libraries' Collection Development Practices." This means great fun for us playing with 25TB of Web materials from three harvests of the .gov domain.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is a grant-making federal agency supporting museums and libraries of all types.
The Portal to Texas History Ann is working hard! She's the Program Coordinator for the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. By Christmas, we should have an additional 170,000 pages of newspapers loaded onto the Portal.
The Portal to Texas History On this day in 1959, Elvis completed his six month Army assignment at Fort Hood, Texas. While he was there, he was assigned to the A Company, 37th Armor, 2nd Armored Division and was trained as a light truck driver with a tank unit.
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Portrait-style photograph of singer Elvis Presley in military uniform. Elvis Presley was stationed at Fort Hood from March 28, 1958 until September 19, 1959. During his 6 month assignment he was assigned ...
The Portal to Texas History We have a new Dean taking the helm, and he's fantastic! This is great news for our Library and the Portal to Texas History
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DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Dr. Martin Halbert, director of digital innovations for the Emory University Libraries in Atlanta, has been named dean of the University of North Texas Libraries. He will begin his position at UNT Oct. 1.
