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Oral History Interview with Diana Salgado, July 29, 2016

Description: Diana Salgado grew up in the Barrio Chihuahua area of Del Rio in the 1940s. She recalled the discrimination in public spaces in the city (movie theaters, soda fountains…) and how the operators of these places would sometimes try to give her preferential treatment over other Mexican Americans due to her fair skin. Salgado married and dropped out of school shortly before her expected graduation; after spending some years in Arizona, her husband and her moved to San Jose, California, where she fou… more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & Salgado, Diana
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Alonso Martinez on July 29, 2016

Description: Alonso speaks about growing up in San Felipe and the segregated nature of Del Rio generally. He also speaks a great deal about migrant farm work and following the seasonal harvest. He speaks about his time in the West Texas cotton fields and speaking Spanish in Anglo schools out in West Texas. He talks a little bit about the 1969 Palm Sunday march--he wasn't a participant but he talks about the march. He also talks about the importance of education he received from Bambi Cardenas and Aurelio Mo… more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Martinez, Alonso
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

[News Script: APB 119]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the weather which is calm across Texas.
Date: March 29, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: New top Texas weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about scattered showers and thunderstorms which are dotting the Panhandle and south plains of Texas as a new frontal system pushes into the state.
Date: July 29, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Nut-Lock.

Description: Patent for new and improved Nut-Locks, allowing for "a simple, strong, durable, and efficient arrangement for effectually locking a nut on a bolt..." (lines 16-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 29, 1916
Creator: Portesi, Santos & Taini, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Latch.

Description: Patent for improvements in gate latches, which "may be adjusted toward or from a gate on a post to be engaged by the latch proper and enable compensation to be made for spreading of the posts upon which the gate is supported and to which it is secured by the latching device." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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