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Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-Amerika

Description: This map shows the southwestern portion of the United States and northern portion of Mexico. U.S. states are outlined in color and numbered (corresponding to an index of states and territories in the lower left corner). Additionally, cities, bodies of water, the names and locations of some Native American Indian tribes, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Santa Fé to San Diego: July 24, to December 3, 1849

Description: Topographic map of John Wesley Powell's route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to San Diego, California, traced in red. Bodies of water, historic or notable sites, and geographic features are also marked, with relief shown in hachures. There is an inset map in the upper-left corner, marking Powell's route on a map of the United States.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 35.686975 -105.937799
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Central America

Description: This map shows northern portions of modern-day Mexico and southern portions of modern-day United States as well as some surrounding areas. Regions labeled Texas, California, and Mexico are outlined in different colors including outlines of the states of Mexico. The area encompassing modern-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico is labeled "Nueva California" and includes annotations regarding the portions which had and had not been explored at the time of the map. Cities, roads, bodies of wa… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico, California and Texas.

Description: This map shows the country of Mexico and surrounding portions of the southern United States. Colored outlines mark the individual states of Mexico and the Texas and California territories. Some cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). Additionally, there is a yellow line noting "newly discovered gold districts." There are three color illustrations around the map showing "Gold Washing" and "Mexican Peasantry" in the lower left corner, and t… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Rapkin, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Group Petition #1]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. The signatures found at the bottom of the page include the member's WASP class and street address.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces]

Description: Copy of two pages from the Congressional Record containing a speech by Texas Representative Olin Teague regarding pending bills that would grant civilian veterans benefits as well as the history of Avenger Field. The pages include other text, including partial text before the speech discussing a memorial dance for Jess Nevarez, his service in the military, his involvement with his community and church and supplemental statements to Teague's speech after his statements.
Date: April 6, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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[News Clip: Joe Foss]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about the winter meeting of the Pro Football Joint Committee in Palm Springs, California. This story includes an interview with AFL commissioner Joe Foss about the merger of the American and National Football Leagues and the first Super Bowl game.
Date: March 17, 1969
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Group Petition #2]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and circulated to the WASP class secretaries. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. This version of the petition does not include the Texas Ten's signatures.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[News Script: News briefs -- secretaries]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three secretaries, two of whom were from Texas, leaving from Dallas for a three-day all expenses paid trip to Hollywood as part of a promotion for the film Miracle in the Rain.
Date: April 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Track teams]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about athletes from Baylor University, Abilene Christian University, and the University of Texas leaving the state to compete in the California Relays track and field meet.
Date: May 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Description: Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

A Frontier Doctor

Description: This autobiographical account of Dr. Henry Franklin Hoyt chronicles his family's history, his upbringing on a small farm in Minnesota, his work as a surgeon in New Mexico, Chicago, California, Texas and the Philippines, along with many other miscellaneous adventures.
Date: 1929
Creator: Hoyt, Henry Franklin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries

Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion

Description: This book "is a compendium of America's Indian Wars and the mountain men, soldiers, cowboys and pioneers who took part in them" (dust-jacket). It includes information about all the major American Indian battles, the lives of notable men who fought in the battles, and the combat techniques employed. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1991
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Panola College

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 3]

Description: Map shows state and territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities and towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: "Schildkroten In." [Galapagos Islands]. Includes number key and table of statistics. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Kort til Balduin Möllhausen's Rejse fra Mississippi til Sydhavets Kyster i Aarene 1853 1854.

Description: Map shows eastern route of Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen across the southwestern United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast during 1853 and 1854. Areas of Native American habitation, military posts, and settlements are noted. Insets: [Map of the mid-western states] and "Profil fra Ft. Smith til Sydhavet" [More of Ft. Smith to the Southern Ocean]. Scale [1:6,015,000].
Date: 1858
Creator: Th. Berg's lith. Inst.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of the western United States]

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century cities, military posts, and railroads in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:7,500,000].
Date: 1889
Creator: Petermann, A. (August), 1822-1878
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of the western United States].

Description: Map shows cities, military posts, and railroads for states and territories west of the Mississippi River, "Indian Territory," and Dakota [Territory]. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by isolines. Scale [1:7,500,000].
Date: 1885
Creator: Petermann, A. (August), 1822-1878
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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