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Rayures

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Recording of Hubert Michel's Rayures. The inspiration for this work was the concept of stripes, more specifically sound stripes, and its travel through the colors of time and space. The sound materials used were derived from a credit card on a metal grid, the sounds of colleagues and friends, and synthesis mining.
Date: 2002
Creator: Michel, Hubert, 1976-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wait a minute !

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Recording of Roderik de Man's Wait a minute !. This composition was created for the 1999 DVD project "Flash" by the Bifrons Foundation in which composers and visual artists were invited to create audio-visual productions. This work used various electronic sound samples, primarily a stopwatch counting down.
Date: 1999
Creator: Man, Roderik de 1941-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mimoyecques

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Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concept of the departure of the souls of the victims.
Date: 1994
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

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
[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
[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
[Leaf from Miniature Prayer Book, 15th Century, Netherlands] (open access)

[Leaf from Miniature Prayer Book, 15th Century, Netherlands]

Leaf from a miniature prayer book in Old Dutch (The Netherlands, 15th-century). Text appears in a single column, late gothic script. The present leaf contains prayers for the "Heilige Jonc frauwen" Saint Gertrude and Saint Margaret. Note the scribe misspelled the girl's name as "Gertgtruyt" to which he/she/they made an unobtrusive correction. This item is unique in its collection, of the 37 leaves from this acquisition made in 2018, this is the only one on paper.
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands] (open access)

[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands]

Leaf form a small prayer book from the 15th century in Old Dutch with text displayed in single column, late gothic script. The leaf in this item contains prayers to Christ who as "gheboren vander maget Marien" and also the prayer beginning "So wie dit gebet spreket heuet benedictus die xii."
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Northern Netherlands] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Northern Netherlands]

15th-century Book of Hours originating from the Nothern Netherlands [Utrecht], ca. 1430s. Dutch text from the Long Hours of the Cross displayed in single column, 19 lines, gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, capitals struck with red, eight one-line initials in red or blue, verso with one three-line initial in burnished gold embellished with red penwork and extensions' full border composed of a vertical bar border of burnished gold and blue with white tracery, the bars with hairline stems emanating from each end and spreading across the top and bottom and along the fore-edge margin, these vines bearing burnished gold trefoils, delicate daisies, and pink and green buds, with the text opened by a 10-line initial "H" in highly burnished gold on a pink and blue ground with white tracery, in the center of the initial a draped flowering vine.
Date: [1430..1439]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Diamant

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Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant for electronic sounds. Diamant was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem. The tape was realized in the IPEM studio in Gent, Belgium.
Date: 1977
Creator: Elmsly, John
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
The Magic of Peter Pan (open access)

The Magic of Peter Pan

A program booklet for The Magic of Peter Pan: A Campy Musical Comedy, featuring the Little Rainbow Band.
Date: May 17, 1987
Creator: Bird, Dianne
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Roy Eldridge playing the trumpet

Photograph of Roy Eldridge playing the trumpet. The photo is damaged, with a large piece missing. A note in Dutch on the back refers to a concert by Eldridge.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

De Cust van Westindien van La Desconoscida tot C. Escondido

Map of the coastline along the western part of the Gulf of Mexico, starting in the south (left) at a point labeled "La Desconoscida" and ending in the north (right) at "C[iudad] Escondido." Segments of the coastline are shaded in red, yellow, and green, with labels for river mouths, ports, islands, and other points along the coast.
Date: 1680
Creator: Roffeveen, Arent, -1679
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sjiwioobaa

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Recording of Joris De Laet's Sjiwioobaa.
Date: 1973
Creator: De Laet, Joris
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aguiro

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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

[Santa Fe Street International Bridge]

Photograph of a bridge in El Paso with a horse drawn carriage and people seen crossing. Handwriting on the back states the photo was taken at the Santa Fe International Bridge after a snow storm in 1911 while American troops were patrolling the border.
Date: unknown
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Den geest des gebeds vol godvrugtige oeffeningen, uyt de H. Schrifture, den missael en HH, Vaders

3D scanned models of a miniature Catholic prayer book. The object is bound in ivory silk with silver, gilt, red, and green embroidery and silver sequins and beads. Housed in red leather pull-off case simulating a book, with gilt decoration. Case with spine title "Annee Nouvell".
Date: 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[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 Amsterdam Fire Department]

Postcard of Dutch firemen on a red auto fire engine. A single fireman is seen standing in the background to the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of an Amsterdam Fire Department Rescue]

Postcard of the Amsterdam Fire Department evacuating a multistory brick building. The firemen have ladders set up along the side of the building, and a man is seen sliding down a cloth slide held by two groups of firemen.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Amsterdam Fire Department]

Postcard of Dutch firemen on a horse-drawn carriage, riding across a bridge over a canal. A man is observing on the other side of the canal.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of a Fire Station, Amsterdam, Germany]

Postcard of the Amsterdam Fire Department in Holland. The firemen are seen in three red auto fire engines parked outside of the fire station's garage.
Date: 1917?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History