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Encinal County

Map of the South Texas Plains region covering Encinal County, Texas. The center of Encinal County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 6, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Oscar M. Laurel to John J. Herrera - 1951-11-06] (open access)

[Letter from Oscar M. Laurel to John J. Herrera - 1951-11-06]

Letter from Oscar M. Laurel, LULAC Executive Secretary, to John J. Herrera, LULAC National Organizer, dated November 6, 1951. Laurel requests plans for the reorganization of LULAC councils; he mentions a highly publicized divorce in Juarez, Mexico, in which Herrera represented one of the parties; and Laurel asks for legal advice on a question of property ownership in connection with the Bay City LULAC Council.
Date: November 6, 1951
Creator: Laurel, Oscar M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator. (open access)

Lubricator.

Patent for a lubricating device for use on railroad cars, which continuously supplies lubricant to the journal box of the train car.
Date: October 6, 1908
Creator: Maness, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Bust] (open access)

[News Script: Bust]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a drug arrest leading to confiscation of up to $25 million worth of drugs in street value.
Date: June 6, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Demonstrators let free] (open access)

[News Script: Demonstrators let free]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 6, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fireball] (open access)

[News Script: Fireball]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a fireball which lit up the imaginations of hundreds of the West Texans as it swept across the sky from north of El Paso to Van Horn and beyond.
Date: September 6, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ladero] (open access)

[News Script: Ladero]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 6, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Meteorite] (open access)

[News Script: Meteorite]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a meteorite dig a home near Laredo, it also started a brush fire when it gouged out a six-by-ten foot hole four from Laredo along the Zapata Highway.
Date: September 6, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New top Texas Weather] (open access)

[News Script: New top Texas Weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about severe weather conditions in northwest Texas.
Date: May 6, 1971, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Rafael Torres, July 6, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rafael Torres, July 6, 2015

Interview with Rafael Torres, community leader from Laredo, Texas. In the interview, Torres discusses his family background, geography and politics in Laredo, experiences in school, participating in Teacher Corps, and activism in Crystal City.
Date: July 6, 2015
Creator: Torres, Rafael; Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Krochmal, Max
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Payment on Houses] (open access)

[Receipt for Payment on Houses]

Receipt signed by a number of homeowners documenting the first half of payment ($750) for their houses, located at Fort McIntosh, that had been occupied by troops.
Date: September 6, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History