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Oral History Interview with Tammy Brake-Regitz, October 17, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Canadian immigrant Tammy Brake-Regitz. Brake-Regitz talks about growing up in Canada and the decision to visit the United States in her twenties leading to her love of America and living the American Dream; Differences in Canada life and life in the United States; Her pursuit in a medical career; and decision to seek an American citizenship.
Date: October 17, 2015
Creator: Alexander, Matthew & Brake-Regitz, Tammy, 1972-
System: The UNT Digital Library
This Is My Life, Such As It Is: Volume 2. Chapters 7-13 (open access)

This Is My Life, Such As It Is: Volume 2. Chapters 7-13

Anecdotes of Dr. Taylor's travels and trips over the years, followed by anecdotes and events of his life, particularly his experiences in education, politics, and religion.
Date: 1960
Creator: Thomas, Taylor H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Which Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance, as Called for by Senate Resolution of December 8, 1882. Volume 5 (open access)

List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Which Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance, as Called for by Senate Resolution of December 8, 1882. Volume 5

List of men receiving military pensions following the U.S. Civil War, organized by state and county. It includes the certificate number, name, address, reason for pension, monthly amount, and date initiated for each person. This final volume includes men living abroad who have U.S. pensions.
Date: 1883
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The New World, 1992] (open access)

[The New World, 1992]

Scrapbook documenting the life of John Logan Briggs Jr. and his friends, including photographs, menus, business cards, clippings, and tickets. The scrapbook also contains photographs of his travels, social gatherings and "The Experience."John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community.
Date: 1992
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life, business and travel, 1961-1965] (open access)

[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life, business and travel, 1961-1965]

Scrapbook documenting the life and travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1961 and 1965, including photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, tickets, maps, illustrations, and various other documents. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community.
Date: [1961..1965]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Schedule of Fees For Jurisdications Under the International Registration Plan: 1997 Fees (open access)

Schedule of Fees For Jurisdications Under the International Registration Plan: 1997 Fees

Report about the Schedule of Fees For Jurisdications Under the International Regidtration Plan from the year 1997
Date: 1997
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Schedule of Fees For Jurisdications Under the International Registration Plan: 1998 Fees (open access)

Schedule of Fees For Jurisdications Under the International Registration Plan: 1998 Fees

Report about the Schedule of Fees For Jurisdications Under the International Regidtration Plan from the year 1998
Date: 1998
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Course 2, Volume 1A. American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action (open access)

Course 2, Volume 1A. American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action

This booklet is the first volume of an extension training course developed for Air Force personnel. This book discusses the military history of the United States of America from the country's inception through the post-World War 1950's.
Date: April 1959
Creator: Air University (U.S.). Extension Course Institute.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Royal Air Force Photo Album] (open access)

[Royal Air Force Photo Album]

Photo album that includes pictures of Royal Air Force (RAF) camps, airplanes, and people, as well as landscapes and other personal images. Some of the pictures have handwritten captions below them. On the last page of the album, there is an invitation from 'The General Officer Commanding and Staff' to attend 'The First Annual Sports Day of the Royal Airforce'.
Date: 1914
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd (open access)

Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd

This volume includes information about the play-party in Oklahoma, folklore of Texas birds, tall tales, folk anecdotes, Texas folk songs and ballads, and other folklore (back cover). The index begins on page 185.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in Central Europe, fleeing to Egypt, Palestine, and his migration to the U.S. Additionally, Rosenzweig talks about their meeting and marriage, work in Canada and Mexico, opening a glass factory in Athens, Texas, moving to Decatur, employee relations, products and the production process, the distribution system, financing methods, her managing the business, sale of the business, and reparations from the Austrian government.
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Rosenzweig, Bertha
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jonathan Forbes, December 1, 2009

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Interview with Jonathan Forbes, Canadian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Forbes' personal experiences of childhood and education in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and dealing with the U.S. immigration and customs bureaucracy. Forbes also talks about his parent's decision to immigrate to the U.S., the similarities and differences of life in Canada and the U.S., his perception of changes due to 9/11 attacks, his intention to remain in the U.S. and gain citizenship, and views on contemporary political issues.
Date: December 1, 2009
Creator: Truxal, Luke & Forbes, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd (open access)

Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd

This volume includes information about the play-party in Oklahoma, folklore of Texas birds, tall tales, folk anecdotes, Texas folk songs and ballads, and other folklore (back cover). The index begins on page 185.
Date: 2000
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Surgeon: an Autobiography (open access)

Texas Surgeon: an Autobiography

This autobiographical account of Dr. Donald Taylor Atkinson tells "the story of the life of a world-renowned doctor who overcame tremendous financial obstacles in order to gain an education" (vii). The author chronicles his family's history, his upbringing in Canada, as well as his journey towards becoming a surgeon in Texas.
Date: 1958
Creator: Atkinson, Donald Taylor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Official Paved Road and Commercial Survey of the United States (open access)

Official Paved Road and Commercial Survey of the United States

Road atlas of the United States illustrating paved roads with details of major cities followed by full page color maps of each state. Also includes a postal airway map, a highway mileage chart, logs of transcontinental federal highways, a transcontinental highway map, population information for U. S. cities based on the latest federal census data, and a descriptive gazetteer of states and territories.
Date: 1929
Creator: National Map Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1922, Volume 2 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1922, Volume 2

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 2 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Trade, Technical and Class Publications begins on page 1247. Alphabetical index of Magazines, Technical, Trade and Class Publications begins on page 1343.
Date: 1922
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1922, Volume 1 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1922, Volume 1

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 1 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Trade, Technical and Class Publications begins on page 1247, in Volume 2. Alphabetical index of Magazines, Technical, Trade and Class Publications begins on page 1343, in Volume 2.
Date: 1922
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1919, Volume 2 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1919, Volume 2

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 2 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1215.
Date: 1919
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1920, Volume 1 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1920, Volume 1

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 1 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1213, in Volume 2.
Date: 1920
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1920, Volume 2 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1920, Volume 2

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 2 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1213.
Date: 1920
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1919, Volume 1 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1919, Volume 1

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 1 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1215, in Volume 2. Includes a 36 page Mid-Year Supplement to Annual and Directory with changes to listings at the end of Volume 2.
Date: 1919
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1918, Volume 1 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1918, Volume 1

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 1 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1237, in Volume 2.
Date: 1918
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1918, Volume 2 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1918, Volume 2

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 2 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1237.
Date: 1918
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1917, Volume 2 (open access)

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory: A Catalogue of American Newspapers, 1917, Volume 2

American Newspaper Annual and Directory contains lists of newspaper publications (listed by counties) with census information, natural features and chief products. Volume 2 of 2. Additional information includes class and trade publications and maps. Index to Class and Trade Publications begins on page 1213. Includes 30 page Mid-Year Supplement to Annual and Directory with changes to listings.
Date: 1917
Creator: N. W. Ayer & Son
System: The UNT Digital Library