261 Matching Results

Search Results

[News Script: Man falls from bridge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about J. B. Sterling, a worker who fell from the Dallas-Fort Worth toll road bridge. He suffers a leg injury, and he is the second man to fall from the bridge in twenty-four hours.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rescue]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a search team looking for an African American boy who jumped over the Belknap street bridge railing in Fort Worth.
Date: July 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bridge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car that fell off a bridge in Dallas county. Robert Ray Bowen and Stanley Moore were in the car.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Freeze nips fruit, makes driving risky]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about heavy sleet and freezing rain conditions across North Texas, resulting in heavy losses for local fruit crops and dangerous driving conditions.
Date: March 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bus accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city bus spinning out of control on wet streets during a rainstorm and striking the wall of an underpass. Three of the eight passengers aboard suffered minor injuries, along with the driver.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Viaduct]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas city council approving a purchase to help road construction across the Trinity river in East Dallas.
Date: June 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident on a Fort Worth highway after a hydraulic dump truck malfunctions, sending its bed flying upward and crashing into an overpass. The driver is injured, but not critically.
Date: June 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Berry Creek Bridge on U.S. Highway 81]

Description: Photograph of damage to Berry Creek Bridge on U.S. Highway 81 showing crumpling of truss. Detail of damage shows partial view of the dedication plaque beginning: J.D. Fauntleroy, State Highway Engineer.
Date: 1959
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Partner: Texas Department of Transportation

[Ship Passing Under Bridge]

Description: Aerial photograph of a ship that has just passed under a large bridge, identified as Rainbow Bridge. The ship is in the right center of the photograph and extends from the bridge to the edge of the frame. The bridge is on the left side of the photograph and a truck and car are visible driving over it. A stamp on the back of the photograph identifies the photograph as J. C. Watkins, and handwriting dates it from September 22, 1954.
Date: September 22, 1954
Creator: Watkins, J. C.
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[View of Ship Passing Through Drawbridge]

Description: Photograph of a town on the edge of a river with a ship passing through a bridge, identified as Pleasure Pier drawbridge. Cars are waiting for the ship to pass on either side of the bridge. There is what appears to be a factory in the distance with multiple smokestacks. A stamp on the back of the photograph identifies the photographer as J. C. Watkins.
Date: November 19, 1952
Creator: Watkins, J. C.
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of Aerial View of Rainbow Bridge, 1957]

Description: Photograph with aerial view of the Rainbow Bridge spanning the Neches River near Port Arthur, Texas. Shadows of several clouds dot the landscape. A ship is passing underneath the bridge. Several canals branch off from the river on its way to Sabine Lake, which encompasses much of the background. The other side of the photo has a handwritten note saying that this was a gift of A. W. Catanach, 1992.
Date: August 2, 1957
Creator: Watkins Studio
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast
Back to Top of Screen