Unidentified Individuals on Vacation in Mineral Wells

Mattie Lee Lacy with two men and six women, all unidentified, posing for the camera while on vacation in Mineral Wells. Mattie Lee Lacy is wearing the white striped dress. Two tents are visible, one on the right side of the frame and one in the background to the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Henry Selz Family on donkeys in Mineral Wells

The Henry Selz family on donkeys in Mineral Wells. Included are: Henry Selz, Martha Selz (far left), their daughters, Katie(far right), and Lula (younger daughter).
Date: 1908?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[North Texas vs Mineral Wells Football Game]

Photograph of a North Texas vs Mineral Wells football game. Players engage in play on the field, and a line of spectators appear to watch from nearby. The text "Denton vs. Mineral Wells" is written on the image.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 60, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1953 (open access)

The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 60, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1953

Weekly student newspaper from the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 17, 1953
Creator: Wells, Johnnie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 61, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1953 (open access)

The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 61, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1953

Weekly student newspaper from the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 24, 1953
Creator: Wells, Johnnie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Main Building (Old Main) before demolition]

Photograph of the Main Building (Old Main) being torn down. The Main Building was constructed in 1904, the second permanent structure on North Texas Campus. It housed an auditorium that seated 1,200, library, administrative offices, and classrooms. Sometimes referred to as the Old Main building, the structure was demolished in 1923 to make way for the new Administration Building, which is now the Auditorium Building.
Date: 1923
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Texas Fashion Collection digitization efforts]

Photograph of collection digitization efforts in the Texas Fashion Collection's workspace in Welch Street Complex 1. UNT photography undergraduate Riley Barkowsky photographed a circle skirt by Clara of Mineral Wells, with support from Upward Bound student Annie Puga and TFC intern Mercedes Muratalla.
Date: June 30, 2022
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Texas Fashion Collection digitization efforts]

Photograph of collection digitization efforts in the Texas Fashion Collection's workspace in Welch Street Complex 1. UNT photography undergraduate Riley Barkowsky photographed a circle skirt by Clara of Mineral Wells, with support from Upward Bound student Annie Puga and TFC intern Mercedes Muratalla.
Date: June 30, 2022
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: APB 120] (open access)

[News Script: APB 120]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about winter which is expected to take one big punch at Texas.
Date: March 20, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Call Number, Volume 1, Number 4, December 1939 (open access)

The Call Number, Volume 1, Number 4, December 1939

Newsletter of the North Texas State Teachers College Library Service Department, Denton, Texas, published monthly while classes are in session. The periodical contains editorials; news items; announcements; and personals concerning staff, students, faculty, and alumni.
Date: 1939
Creator: Teachers College. Library Service Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Men and women on the lawn of a boarding house]

Photograph of a group of students sitting on the lawn in front of an unidentified boarding house. The image is affixed to a cardboard matte and a list of handwritten names is written on the back of the matte. The image is undated. The names on the back are: Mrs. D.W. Brown, Denton, Texas; Ruby Granger, Comanche; Miss Emma Martin, Savoy; Nora Brown, Denton, Texas; Jonna Gillispie, Edgewood; J.D. Cochran, Ft. Worth; C.A. Glass, Farmersville Coll. Co. Texas; Maud Quindlin, Edgewood, Texas; Miss Clara Sadler, Coalgate, I.T.; Miss Celia Jenkins, Edgewood, Texas; Miss Margarite Thornton, Arlington, Texas; J.W. Rodgers, Van Alstyne, Grayson, Texas; Miss Stella Womack, Fairfield, Texas; Raymond Odell, Gustine, Texas; Miss Ozella McMan (possibly McNair); Opal Cathey, Comanche, Texas; Routh, Blanket, Texas; Miss Bessie Burks, Comanche; Miss Cecil Crawford, Louisville, Texas; Myrtle Brown, Denton, Texas; Miss Nellie Nelson, Sulphur Springs; Andrew Tally, Kerens Navara (Navaro), Texas; Elzma Cunningham, Comanche; H.C. Dodd, Rosalee; L.L. Neal Olney, Young, Texas; Miss Jennie Greene, Denton, Texas; Mineral Wells. The photograph may have been taken at the D.W. Brown home on Oak Street, which acted as a boarding house for students. The photograph was most likely taken between 1900 and 1910.
Date: [1900..1910]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore (open access)

Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Date: 1972
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore (open access)

Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maximal Proposition, Environmental Melodrama, and the Rhetoric of Local Movements: A Study of The Anti-Fracking Movement in Denton, Texas (open access)

Maximal Proposition, Environmental Melodrama, and the Rhetoric of Local Movements: A Study of The Anti-Fracking Movement in Denton, Texas

The environmental problems associated with the boom in hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," such as anthropogenic earthquakes and groundwater contamination, have motivated some citizens living in affected areas such as Denton, Texas to form movements with the goal of imposing greater regulation on the industry. As responses to an environmental threat that is localized and yet mobile, these anti-fracking movements must construct rhetorical appeals with complicated relationships to place. In this thesis, I examine the anti-fracking movement in Denton, Texas in a series of three rhetorical analyses. In the first, I compared fracking bans used by Frack Free Denton and State College, Pennsylvania to distinguish the argumentative claims that are dependent on the politics of place, and affect strategies localities must use in resisting natural gas extraction. In the second, I compare campaign strategies that use local identity as a way of invoking legitimacy, which reinforces narrative frameworks of environmental risk. In the third, I conduct and analyze interviews with anti-fracking leaders who described the narrative of their movement, which highlighted tensions in the rhetorical construction of a movement as local. Altogether, this thesis traces the rhetorical conception of place across the rhetoric of the anti-fracking movement in Denton, Texas, while …
Date: December 2017
Creator: Hensley, Colton Dwayne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

2007 Economic Census Map: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Combined Statistical Area

Map showing the area of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Combined Statistical Area for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data during the 2007 economic census.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2 (open access)

Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2

The second volume of a two part report on the Creataceous aquifers in Texas. This volume contains information on water wells, water levels, and chemical analyses.
Date: July 1982
Creator: Nordstrom, Philip L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Yucca, Yearbook of North Texas State Normal School, 1913 (open access)

The Yucca, Yearbook of North Texas State Normal School, 1913

Yearbook for North Texas State Normal College in Denton, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.
Date: 1913
Creator: North Texas State Normal College
Object Type: Yearbook
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 357, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 25, 2018 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 357, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 25, 2018
Creator: McCrory, Sean
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 2017 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 19, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1927 (open access)

The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1927

Weekly student newspaper from the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: August 12, 1927
Creator: Robinson, Duncan
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 2019 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 26, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Western Presbyter] (open access)

[The Western Presbyter]

The Western Presbyter, a weekly publication from Cumberland Presbyterian, contains information about the state of the church.
Date: February 11, 1904
Creator: Russell, Charles C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Site brings historic newspapers into modern age (open access)

Site brings historic newspapers into modern age

Newspaper article about the digitization efforts by the UNT Libraries' digital newspaper unit resulting in over one million Texas newspaper pages available freely online at the Portal to Texas History. There is a photograph of Trista Barker in the upper-right corner of the article holding a roll of microfilm in front of her face with a computer, monitor, and Mekel Mach V Microfilm Scanner behind her. There is a partial article on the back of the clipping.
Date: March 17, 2013
Creator: Smith, Diane & Faulkner, Max
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 57, Ed. 1 Monday, October 20, 1913 (open access)

Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 57, Ed. 1 Monday, October 20, 1913

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 20, 1913
Creator: Edwards, W. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History