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[News Script: Oilman Faces Extradition]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Eugene M. Shirley being extradited from Texas to California to faces charges for selling oil leases without a permit.
Date: August 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Explosion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire and subsequent explosion that took place and the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation tank-farm near Dumas. Nineteen men were killed.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Las Mujeres Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Las Mujeres Ranch in Webb County, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, ranches, water bodies, boundaries, oil pipelines, and landmarks. Includes a road classification diagram in the lower-right corner. Relief shown by contours (interval 20) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Texas. Profile Guadalupe River.

Description: Map of the Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers and their tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, oil pipelines, average bank lines, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges. The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: May 1950
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[News Script: Gas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bulldozer breaking a gas line on a demolition site in Dallas, resulting in a brief panic until the gas flow is shut off.
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

[News Script: Girl]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young Peruvian woman coming to Fort Worth to work as a secretary for oilman Jack Danciger.
Date: May 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hartley defends right to work laws]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fred Hartley, a former New Jersey Congressman, endorsing the outlawing of professional labor pickets during a speech at the 48th annual convention of the Southern Gas Association in Dallas.
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs -- blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a diesel fuel explosion near Hutchins that sent a county employee to the hospital with severe burns.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Kuykendall]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Jerome K. Kuykendall, holding a press conference in Dallas.
Date: April 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Forum head says probe welcome]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the president of controversial education organization Facts Forum, wealthy Dallas oilman H. L. Hunt, making a statement defending his organization from attacks that it is a propaganda group.
Date: May 14, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[LeTourneau Industries Jack- Vinegaroo]

Description: Photograph of the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944. The photograph shows the final testing for the jack named Vinegaroo built in 1957 by Marathon LeTourneau Vicksburg for Zapata Drilling.
Date: March 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

[LeTourneau Industries]

Description: Photograph of a completed offshore oil rig located in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig was built at the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944.
Date: 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

General highway map, Wise County, Texas.

Description: Map shows roads, oilfields, airfields, railroads, towns, and structure locations. Includes legend and key to counties. Insets: "Greenwood," "Park Springs," "Paradise," "Slidell," "Aurora," "Crafton," "Inset No. 1," and "Boonsville." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:63,360].
Date: 1958
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Booming Mexia in the Roaring 20's

Description: Compilation of articles published during 1955 in The Waco-Times Herald, written by Nanine Simmons about the history of Mexia, Texas and focusing on the oil boom in the 1920s. The author includes a preface regarding the sources of her information and editorial notes for some of the articles to provide more context.
Date: March 1955
Creator: Simmons, Nanine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries
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