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20 Mule Team (open access)

20 Mule Team

This photograph from the front cover of an issue of the Hexagon Journal displays the mock 20 mule team that stands outside of the Rio Tinto Borax Museum in Boron, California. The mule team depicts the original mode used to transport the chemical compound, borax, out of Death Valley between 1883 and 1888. A description of the photograph is shown on page 23 of the journal.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Farm Business Man: Dolph Briscoe Makes Million on Cattle Ranching] (open access)

[Clipping: Farm Business Man: Dolph Briscoe Makes Million on Cattle Ranching]

Article by John S. Cooper discussing Texas cattle and Dolph Briscoe, owner of Catarina Ranch in Southwest Texas and part owner of other land in four Texas counties and Mexico.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Cooper, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Economics and Finance on the Debasement of Economic Theory] (open access)

[Clipping: Economics and Finance on the Debasement of Economic Theory]

Clipping from the New York Times arguing against the Congress of Industrial Organizations push for wage increases on the basis of purchasing power.
Date: December 16, 1946
Creator: New York Times
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Tio Sam -- (Sam Myres) "The Saddle Man"] (open access)

[Clipping: Tio Sam -- (Sam Myres) "The Saddle Man"]

Clipping from "Horse Lovers Magazine" containing a number of stories and advertisements, starting with the first part of an article about the life of Sam Myres with an image of the $10,000 saddle he made for the 101 Ranch.
Date: March 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Special Souvenir Edition Sweetwater Reporter", November 1990] (open access)

[Clipping: "Special Souvenir Edition Sweetwater Reporter", November 1990]

November 1990 issue of the Sweetwater Reporter of significant historical events from the 20th century.
Date: November 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History