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[Postcard of Fire Fighters in Saint-Ouen]

Description: Postcard of fire fighters extinguishing a large fire in an urban setting. The silhouettes of buildings are visible behind the wall of smoke, as well as a toppled street sign and telephone pole. In the bottom-right corner of the image, behind the fire fighters, a pickaxe is seen in a mound of loose dirt. A handwritten message on the back of the photograph says, "Many thanks for your cards. They are pretty, but not quite what I...]"
Date: unknown
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Echoes of France]

Description: Photographs of "Echoes of France" by Amy Robbins Ware, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark blue with a rubricated title and illustration enclosed in a black-stamped frame. Image 2, inscription on inside of cover written in pencil. On the left page is a stamped design. This image in Echoes from France by Amy Robbins Ware, an American nurse in France during WWI, demonstrates the kind of tensions generated by the coexistence of photographs and text. Image 3, pages 40 and 41. The pag… more
Date: October 12, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Carte Physique et Politique des Etats-Unis, Canada et Partie du Mexique

Description: This map shows the United States and the immediate surrounding areas. States are labeled and shaded in various colors. Some major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). There are two insets in the lower right corner: "Etats-Unis (Etats du Nord-Est)" and "Territoire d'Alaska aux Etats-Unis."
Date: 1880?
Creator: Drioux, abbé (Claude-Joseph), 1820-1898; Leroy, Charles; Vilpou, A. & Sonnet, L.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

World War I Soldiers

Description: Copy negative of two portraits of World War I soldiers in uniform. The picture on the left is of one soldier leaning on a desk. The picture on the right is of three soldiers standing together.
Date: 1914~
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Description: Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with captions in French under them. The first is of a German Howitzer in 1914 with other equipment and a building in the background. The second picture is of a destroyed church and a vase still intact.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

États-Unis

Description: This map shows the United States and surrounding areas. Each of the states is labeled and shaded using various colors. Cities, roads, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures and spot heights). There is a sketch of a city in the lower left corner labeled "Washington."
Date: unknown
Creator: Smith; Bizet, A.; Migeon, J. & Lacost, Charles
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Soldiers in the Field; Soldiers with Cannon

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The top picture is of a group of soldiers in World War I in a building recuperating in 1914 or 1915. There is a caption and information in French under the photograph. The bottom picture is of two men working with a canon in 1918, also with a caption under it.
Date: [1914..1918]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Description: Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture is of a barbed wire fence around an area with a soldier, a building, and plants. The bottom picture is of the Highland Brigade who took Martinpuich marching down a road beside a field. The men in front are playing bagpipes.
Date: [1914..1917]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Description: Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture is of Russian soldiers marching down a road with a crowd watching from the other side. There are three men in front, one of them holding a flag, and there are lines of men behind them carrying guns with bayonets. The bottom picture shows the old Palais du Trocadéro viewed under the Eiffel Tower.
Date: [1914..1917]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Description: Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture shows several soldiers in the woods with a cannon in 1914. The bottom picture is of the ruins of Neuve Chapelle, showing buildings reduced to rubble taken between 1914 and 1917.
Date: {1914,1914..1917}
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Notes written on American Red Cross stationary regarding WWI]

Description: Single page of American Red Cross Stationary with English and French writing covering June 26th and 27th, 1919. The notes include dairy like entries that comment on the progress of the war and list places Lauderdale visited including such as chapels, 2 ponds, lake, Napoleon Lounge, and the colonnade.
Date: [1919-06-26..1919-06-27]
Creator: Lauderdale, Victor
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Constitution and By-Laws of the Texas Eclectic Medical Association of the State of Texas

Description: This pamphlet contains the text of the Texas Eclectic Medical Association's constitution and by-laws, including the purpose of the Association, membership information, election of officers, resolutions, ethics, as well as other rules and regulations.
Date: 1891
Creator: Texas Eclectic Medical Association
Partner: University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries

[Cotton Baling Inside Mill]

Description: Two near-identical images of a cotton baling press in use at a mill. A bale is at the front and a man is standing just behind it at left, near the machinery. There is a blur where the man moved during the exposure. Descriptive text printed below the images in the lower-right corner: "7722- Baling Cotton--a powerful press just releasing a 500-lb. bale--at a mill in Texas." The same text is printed on the back in six languages
Date: 1905
Creator: Sun Sculpture Works and Studios
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard and envelope from France during WWI]

Description: Outgoing postcard featuring a black and white image of Le Tramway au Smmet du PUY-DE-DOME. The postcard includes a hand inked message to family in the United States. The top edge of the card inlcudes a humorous note that reads to "Do not forget stamps- first for me!!". The stamped and addressed envelope is included.
Date: 1917/1919
Creator: Lauderdale, Victor
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Diekirch]

Description: Postcard with an illustration of Diekirch, a commune that was situated on the banks of the Sauer river. The bottom of the postcard reads, "Diekirch avec la vailee de la Sure - Diekirch mit Sauertal."
Date: [1918..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cafe Royal

Description: Only a caption on the photograph identifies it as the Cafe Royal. This building that houses it, on the N.W. corner of NW 1st Avenue and 3rd Streets, was known as the W.E. Mayes Building. Upstairs rooms were rented under the name of the "Carlsbad Hotel" in recognition of the nearby Carlsbad Drinking Pavilion at the opposite (or NE) corner of the block: 700 NW 2nd Avenue. (The first edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells", page 105, identifies it as the Wells Hotel.)
Date: 1900?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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