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Vacation Bible School

Photograph of a group of children and an adult female standing outside of a building to the right of the image identified as the Vacation Bible School. They are standing roughly into 4 rows, with the front row of girls wearing knee-length dresses and the boys dressed in different styles of dungarees. Only two of the girls are wearing shoes. There are two large trees in the distance. Black hand-written text on the back of the photograph is in a Germanic language, possibly Dutch, while a succeeding blue line of text reads, "Vacation Bible School, Stephanie Swendsen".
Date: June 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Americae septentrionalis pars I.

Map shows "Louisania" [French Louisiana], "Tecas" [Texas], New Navare and New Mexico, "Great Space of Land unknown," settlements, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: [Map of Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay and adjacent lands]; in upper left corner: "This scale is half of the other." Includes dates and names of explorers. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.
Date: [1750..1770]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Amsterdam Fire Department on a Boat]

Postcard of the Amsterdam Fire Department aboard a boat. The boat has smoke rising from exhaust pipes, and it is towing a smaller boat seen behind it. The back of the photograph has a handwritten note from the sender that says, "Thanks for cards. I hope you like these. Many salutations [...]"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Rotterdam Fire Department]

Postcard of fire fighters carrying ladders via handcarts. A handwritten message to the recipient on the back of the postcard says, "I was for a few days out of town. I could not answer directly. This is our old type of fire brigade, but we have also the newer auto steam brigade. Please send me some few about farming [...]"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Aguiro

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
Date: 1974
Creator: Beyst, Stefan
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
11 september transcript

11 september

Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis match between Sweden and Chile with more than 4,000 participants. The text is taken in small excerpts from the document in Spanish, English, Swedish, Danish, French, Dutch, and Icelandic. The piece consists of three sections overlapping each other gradually, which shows the relationship between the spoken words and the immediate danger connected with that text. The first section "as a spontaneous statement," deals with the document at its direct background: the silence is broken, in spite of the danger connected with the writing, manifolding papers that criticize the politics and methods of the junta and discuss the strategy of the opposition. The second section deals with the document as a medium of discussion. At …
Date: 1977
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Car Being Unloaded From Ship]

Photograph of a car being unloaded from a ship in Belgium. A sign on the ship reads "Beware of Propeller, Opgepast Voor De Schroeven." The note on the back reads, "The car being unloaded at Ostend, Belgium."
Date: 195X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Witter & Pearson to H. Kempner, 1949] (open access)

[Telegram from Witter & Pearson to H. Kempner, 1949]

Telegram from Witter & Pearson in Liverpool to H. Kempner in Ghent informing them that the interview has been arranged for the 13th with a hotel reservation at the Adelphi beginning on the 12th.
Date: 1949-06-01?
Creator: Witter & Pearson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Kempner, July 2, 1949] (open access)

[Telegram from Kempner, July 2, 1949]

Telegram sent by Kempner in Ghent discussing sales to buyers of July/August shipments and prices quoted by competitors.
Date: July 2, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

From the Tripod

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Recording of Ton Bruynèl's From the Tripod. This program music musically retraces a kind of history of the West commented by a group of women, from Greece to American society. Charles Baudelaire's quote "Give me the strength and courage to contemplate this world without disgust," is heard at the end of Bruynel's work as a mechanical bird passes by and bells are ringing. From the Tripod is a piece for speakers, women and listeners.
Date: 1980
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library