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[News Script: Sports] (open access)

[News Script: Sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas Rangers who open the 1974 major league baseball season in Arlington stadium against the defending world champion Oakland A' s and the rangers who are proclaiming themselves a new team from top to bottom.
Date: April 2, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[WWH: Railroad History] (open access)

[WWH: Railroad History]

Text about railroad museums across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a May 1994 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1994-05~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Empty streets] (open access)

[News Script: Empty streets]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Environmental protection agency which proposed traffic controls plan for eleven of the nation's metropolitan regions.
Date: June 15, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001

Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, teacher and pianist from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Wilson talks about coming to Kerrville to teach at the "Kerrville Colored School," life for African-Americans in the area, the African-American community, and her personal life.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Bacon, Dan; Bethel, Ann & Wilson, Itasco Sampson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree-Hook. (open access)

Whiffletree-Hook.

Patent for whiffletree-hook that provides "a novel device of this character in which it is impossible for the trace ring or link to become accidentally detached, but which may be readily removed or disengaged from the hook when desired" (lines 15-20). The invention has a flattened circular plate.
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree. (open access)

Whiffletree.

Patent for an all-metal one-piece whiffletree of "strength, economy, durability, and lightness" (lines 21-22) with solid metal ends that interlock with trace-hooks and prevent "the trace-coupling from becoming accidentally disconnected" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 98, July 1994 - April, 1995 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 98, July 1994 - April, 1995

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 655.
Date: 1995
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest (open access)

The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest

This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History