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Oral History Interview with Juan Parras on June 16, 2016.

Description: Juan Parras was born in Big Spring in 1949. He moved to San Antonio to attend seminary and attended St. Mary's in 1968 before transferring to the University of Houston in 1971. He began working at the Harris County Welfare Department where he led a walkout. Mr. Parras discusses unionizing and his 15 year career working with the International Union and other unions. His latest activism revolves around environmental justice issues and is the founder of Tejas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service… more
Date: June 16, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 23 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Parras, Juan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

[Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson and Junia Roberts Osterhout, November 16, 1881]

Description: Letter from Paul Osterhout to his parents, John Patterson and Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote to inform them that he planned to visit for a few weeks during the holidays and that he wanted his parents to get him new clothes during that time. In his letter, he detailed an accident between a train and the convict train in which a few convicts tried to make an escape.
Date: November 16, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Paul
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Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[News Script: Tree kills scouts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three Boy Scouts who were killed in Davy Crockett National Forest after high winds blew a tree on top of their tent.
Date: April 16, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boy Scouts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about funeral services for three Boy Scouts who were killed in Davy Crockett National Forest after high winds blew a tree on top of their tent.
Date: April 16, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boy Scouts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three Boy Scouts who were killed in Davy Crockett National Forest after high winds blew a tree on top of their tent.
Date: April 16, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs

Description: Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Quilting Frame for Sewing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved quilting-frame for sewing machines. This design "is to combine the parts by which a quilter is suspended from a ceiling and connected with a sewing-machine" (lines 15-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he track having a bead on the inner side of top, an eye at each end, and suspended on an incline from the ceiling by two wires at each end, said wires diverging from the track-eyes to the ceiling, in combination with the head-block arranged on the opposite side of … more
Date: September 16, 1890
Creator: Touchstone, Jonas Carnie & Worthington, James Monroe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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