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[Land Grant Indenture Document]

Description: Legal document for an indenture between James Winchester and Israel Moore of Sumner County, Tennessee which grants Moore land when he can pay $100 to the current owner, written October 17th, 1796. There are addenda acknowledging the land transfer, finalized in December, 1797.
Date: December 13, 1797
Creator: Tennessee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico.

Description: Map shows roads, towns, county boundaries, railroads, land tracts and ownership, notable physical features, and layout of larger cities along the valley of the mid-nineteenth century Mississippi River. Includes explanation, list of other maps available from publisher. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:316,800].
Date: 1862
Creator: Lloyd, James T.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The American Central Rail Way.

Description: Map shows the mid-nineteenth century American Central rail lines stretching from the middle of North American to Nebraska and Kansas territories. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,600,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Sylvester, J. W.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their stations & distances, also the counties, towns, villages, harbors, rivers, and forts. Compiled from the latest government and other reliable sources 1862 [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, county lines, state lines, settlements, and railroad lines in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and parts of Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Includes text titled "Sketch of the whole southern coast." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000].
Date: 1862
Creator: Lloyd, James T.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their stations & distances, also the counties, towns, villages, harbors, rivers, and forts. Compiled from the latest government and other reliable sources 1862 [Sheet 2]

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, county lines, state lines, settlements, and railroad lines in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and parts of Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Includes text titled "Sketch of the whole southern coast" and map key. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000].
Date: 1862
Creator: Lloyd, James T.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad: Connecting the cities of Cincinnati & St. Louis, exhibiting the principal tributary lines, also the railways uniting the eastern terminus with Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore.

Description: Map shows existent mid-nineteenth century Ohio and Mississippi Railroad railway routes in the northeast and upper mid-western United States. Scale not given.
Date: [1853..1855]
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[News Script: Sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 21, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Rape trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the rape trial of Roy Tyrone Stanford from Dallas.
Date: September 14, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Drowning ; Hunt ; 20 Thousand Bond Upheld in Extortion Case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany three news stories. The first is about the probable drowning of Dan Medcalf in Mountain Creek Lake. The video shows police officers searching for his body. Second is about Wilbur J. Hunt, who was arrested for the murder of Leroy Eggleston. The third story covered in this video clip is about a man attempting to reduce a $20,000 bond that was set following charges that he and his wife extorted a family for $300.
Date: August 9, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Hillbilly Snapshooter

Description: Video of an interview with photographer Joe Clark, known as the "Hillbilly Snapshooter." The video appears to have been produced by a Detroit news station, possibly WJBK, although there is no identifying information. Clark is known for his images of his native Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Many images of rural life in Tennessee taken by Clark are featured throughout the interview with instrumental music, including a surf-rock interpretation of a traditional song, played as accompaniment.
Date: 1961
Duration: 28 minutes 55 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell the Mountain Boy (1)]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph of Jimmy Powell, laying down, shirtless, on top a mountain in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image a farm can be seen on the next hill and Powell has a shotgun, almost the size of his body, laying next to him and his hunting dog off in the distance On the bottom of the image, "Lazy Bones," is handwritten. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of wh… more
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Drop by Drop]

Description: The image was created as part of the Story of Jack Daniel's Distillery for the Gardner Advertising Company. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Originally shot as a concept illustrating that Jack Daniel's whiskey is "Charcoal-Mellowed Drop by Drop" Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7305-1
Date: October 1, 1956
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of Tennessee]

Description: Postcard with scenes of Tennessee and text that says "Greetings from Tennessee." A handwritten note addressed to Miss Helen H. Aten from Woodrow W. Aten at Camp Campbell says "Dear Helen and All. Lt. Crews and I just returned from Gallatin where we again visited his aunt and uncle. We had the usual hospitality and saw where part of the Army is bivouacked on maneuvers now but leaving tomorrow. This was quite a clear day for a charge - just warm enough. Bro. Woodrow."
Date: November 8, 1942
Creator: Aten, Woodrow W.
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Diary of G. L. MacMurphy]

Description: Diary of G. L. MacMurphy of Galveston, Texas, describing events of the Civil War from his perspective as a soldier. Parts of the diary were written in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Date: 1862/1863
Creator: MacMurphy, G. L.
Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College

[Diary of G. L. MacMurphy]

Description: Diary of G. L. MacMurphy of Galveston, Texas, describing events of the Civil War from his perspective as a soldier. Parts of the diary were written in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a list in the back of the diary has the names of soldiers and whether they had died or deserted.
Date: 1864/1865
Creator: MacMurphy, G. L.
Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College
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