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[Letter from Henri Castro to Ferdinand Louis Huth, September 17, 1845, Copy 2]

Description: Letter from H[enr]i Castro to [Ferdinand] Louis Huth regarding a new batch of emigrants and some specific instructions regarding the colony. Marked "Duplicate". Signed Hi. Castro on Sept. 17, 1845 in Antwerp. Includes a document listing names of colonists under the headings "house[s] built" and "under construction," with several dates listed.
Date: September 17, 1845
Creator: Castro, Henri
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Crowded Street in Belgium]

Description: Photograph of a crowded street and sidewalk in Belgium lined with shops and trees. Groups of people stand outside the shops and walk along the sidewalk that is split by a bike rack with bikes leaning against it. The opposite side of the sidewalk has cyclists and lamp posts.
Date: 2004
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[News Script: Plane Crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a chartered Belgian jetliner which crashed during a storm near Tangiers, Morocco killed 105 persons on board.
Date: December 23, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Veteran Photos in France, Belgium and Germany]

Description: Photograph of several veterans in Belgium, France and Germany around 1943. The top left photo shows Summfrour and a paratrooper up on St. Pauls Cathedral. The towers of St. Paul Cathedral are shown on the top right and the bottom right is a photo of London from St. Pauls. On the second page,the top left photo is of Giavando Didriksen in front of an old church, the top right photo shows a plane crash near camp, and the bottom right is of a plane headed to London
Date: 1943/1945
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Muse River Scenes]

Description: Collage of photos taken in Belgium in the mid 1940s. The photos on the first page are identified as "All three pictures: Scenes along Muse river in Liege, Belgium. Five of our group were here about half way between Liege Belgium and Aachen Germany. From here visited Brussels and Aachen Germany. We were supplying an engineering group building and air strip. We didn’t stay very long. The Germans began the battle of the bulge from Aachen coming our way. We and the engineers loaded up and went back… more
Date: 1943/1945
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Guild Houses in Antwerp, Belgium]

Description: Photograph of the Guild Houses in Antwerp, Belgium. A Guild House is a historical building originally used for the assembly of a guild in Europe. Guilds were associations of craftsmen or merchants who practiced the same trade. The largest guild house in Antwerp was that of the butchers guild. In medieval Europe guilds held immense power.
Date: 2004
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Belgian Lacemaker]

Description: Photograph of a modern day Belgian lacemaker. By the 13th century, Bruges was at the center of European textile trade which allowed Bruges to develop a rich fashion and lace industry. The lacemaker is sitting at her lace table with several bobbins on her table that she's using to create lace. The lacemaker's hair is wearing characteristic lace cap on her head.
Date: 2004
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Partner: Texas Lutheran University
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