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[News Clip: Glen Rose Sheriff]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. Audio for film clip begins at 2:42.
Date: April 7, 1964
Duration: 4 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Tree in Presidio landscape]

Description: Photograph of a tree and bushes in Presidio desert. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "El Apostol Santiago built, with Indian labor, a mission on the north side of the Rio Grande in 1684" (p. 3).
Date: 1969
Creator: Edwards, Nancy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Big Bend desert landscape containing bushes and mountains]

Description: Photograph of wildflowers and grasses in a canyon near Presidio County, Texas. There is a large bush of pink wildflowers in the foreground with green grasses and bushes behind. A rocky mountain range features prominently in the background and extends the width of the photograph. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Bluebonnets, our State flower, and sage bloom early in the year-round warmth in the Big Bend Park on the Rio Grande" (p. 2).
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Purple desert flowers]

Description: Photograph of several bluebonnet plants (Lupinus havardii) in the desert near Marfa, Texas. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Bluebonnets, our State flower, and sage bloom early in the year-round warmth in the Big Bend Park on the Rio Grande" (p. 2).
Date: 1969
Creator: Edwards, Nancy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Picture of desert landscape]

Description: Photograph of a rocky desert landscape with a mountain ridge (part of the Chinati Mountain range) in Presidio County, Texas. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "The Big Bend is composed of the counties of Presidio, Brewster, and Jeff Davis" (p. 1).
Date: 1969
Creator: Edwards, Nancy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Close up of Big Bend desert mountain]

Description: Photograph of a large, rocky hill in a desert landscape in the Big Bend area. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "[According to an] Indian legend [...] After the heavens, the earth, and the living creatures had been shaped, the Great Spirit had a great accumulation of rocks and stony material left over. Even the Evil Spirit refused the pile, and so it became the mighty Big Bend of Texas" (p. 1).
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Desert flowers]

Description: Photograph of yellow and purple wildflowers in the desert soil near Marfa, Texas. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Thorns are not the only dangers, as shown by these plants -- senecio and loco -- which are highly poisonous to livestock" (p. 2).
Date: 1969
Creator: Edwards, Nancy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 19 - Road trips and Family Gatherings]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including a road trip and family gatherings. Footage begins with the family climbing a rock formation at an unidentified desert location, a race car at a rest stop, an outdoor family gathering in a backyard, the family at a lake, and another outdoor family gathering with people playing croquet and posing for the camera and children climbing trees.
Date: 1966?
Duration: 4 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library

[News Script: Surf]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 14, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of distant mountains]

Description: Photograph of the silhouette of distant mountains, taken from the road. A wire fence stands between the road and the field of brush and small plants that is situated before the far away mountains. The sky is dark is cloudy.
Date: [1960..1980]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of desert landscape]

Description: Photograph of a desert landscape. Yellow flowers grow along a barbed-wire fence that encloses a hilly pasture covered in brush and dry grass. A mountain, partially covered in vegetation, stands in the background.
Date: [1960..1980]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sandstone Formation]

Description: Positive transparency of a sandstone formation in Big Bend National Park. Bare shrubs and patches of dry grasses surround the base of the formation. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date: November 3, 1968
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Ragsdale Terminal Airplane]

Description: Photograph of the interior view of the small Ragsdale Terminal, which has a postmodern design with minimalist decor and a multi-arched ceiling. Chairs and decorative plants can be seen in both the left and right foreground. A wall of windows can be seen to the right, through which a desert garden and a small airplane can also be seen.
Date: August 23, 1962
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.301089 -97.698348
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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