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
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Obituary for Anne Geise Herff] (open access)

[Obituary for Anne Geise Herff]

Newspaper clipping of the obituary for Anne Geise Herff (April 4, 1942 - February 29, 2012), describing activities during her life and various family members, along with information about services to be held March 4 and 5, 2012.
Date: March 4, 2012
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding band, long lost in a file, to be sold] (open access)

[Clipping: Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding band, long lost in a file, to be sold]

Newspaper clipping describing the wedding band belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald that his former wife, Marina Oswald Porter, is auctioning it off with RR Auction. Ms. Porter states that the ring is the only thing returned to her from her late husband and it took fifty years, but she has moved on from the events of November 22, 1963 and wants to let the ring go.
Date: July 18, 2013
Creator: Ragland, James
System: The UNT Digital Library