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[News Script: Air Force]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Carswell Air Force Base unveiling a stone monument commemorating the Air Force's Seventh Bombardment Wing.
Date: June 8, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Statue of Padre José Nicolás Ballí

Description: Statue of Padre J. Nicolas Balli Located on South Padre Island. Historical Marker on base reads: "Padre Island, off the South Texas coast, is named for Padre Jose Nicolas Balli (177?-1829), whose family migrated from Spain in 1569 and became large landowners in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In 1800 Balli applied to King Charles IV of Spain for 11 1/2 leagues of land on the island, and in 1804 started its first settlement, Rancho Santa Cruz. Padre Balli served as collector of finances for all th… more
Date: June 26, 2018
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries

Cristo de los Pescadores

Description: Photograph of statue entitled, "Cristo de los Pescadores" in Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island north west of the Jetties. The statue is on top of carved, stacked blocks of stone that have small plaques on them and it is behind a carved stone marker that has text and illustrations of a ship and anchors.
Date: June 26, 2018
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Tut Exhibit]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story by reporter about the United States tour of the King Tut or Tutankhamun exhibit and recent tests used to determine cause of death. This footage includes shots of the exhibit, the tomb's original exhumation, and Egypt's head of antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. The story aired at 4:00 P.M.
Date: June 13, 2005
Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Liberty Bell in Front of the Capitol

Description: Photograph of the United States Liberty Bell in front of the Texas state Capitol building. A sign on the Ford Liberty Bell Fleet truck reads "Save for YOUR Independence - Buy U.S. Savings Bonds."
Date: June 22, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Monument and Texas State Capitol Building]

Description: Photograph of a monument across from the Texas State Capitol Building. It reads: "This Memorial to the Builders of the Great State of Texas Erected A.D. 1938 by the Texas Historical and Biographical Record." A list of names follows. The Texas State Capitol building is in the background.
Date: June 25, 1942
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Denton County Confederate Soldier Monument]

Description: Photograph of the Denton County Confederate Soldier Monument. The monument consists of a small, standalone archway with a confederate soldier statue on its top, a small sphere sitting on either side of the statue. Words around the archway's inner curve read "Our confederate soldiers". Above these words. under the top edge of the archway, is a motif of the letters "C", "S", and "A" as one icon. Rectangular piers support the archway's top section, each with words engraved on them. On each of the… more
Date: June 1990
Creator: Judd, Tom
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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