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Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore (open access)

Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore (open access)

Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Date: 1972
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1989] (open access)

[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1989]

Scrapbook documenting the travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1987 and 1989, including color photographs, tickets, business cards, clippings, stickers, and other records of travel throughout the U.S. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. This scrapbook also documents his time spent with friends and family.
Date: [1987..1989]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Donald Fleming, May 30, 2003

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with grain elevator operator and Army Air Forces veteran Donald Fleming. The interview includes Fleming's personal experiences about being a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II, his education at Kansas State University, enlisting as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Forces, navigator training, bomber transition training, his assignment to Pantanella Air Base, various missions to Austria and Rumania, fighter escorts by the Tuskegee Airmen, and raids against oil refineries and marshalling yards. Fleming also talks about enemy flak and fighter opposition, his return to the States after fifty-one missions his crew's pet dog, correspondence with his wife, and his postwar business career.
Date: May 30, 2003
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Fleming, Donald
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lloyd A. Lawrence, March 25, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lloyd A. Lawrence, March 25, 1989

Interview with Lloyd A. Lawrence, a United States Navy veteran from Lincoln, Nebraska, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS Maryland.
Date: March 25, 1989
Creator: Summers, H. R., Jr. & Lawrence, Lloyd A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska (open access)

The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska

Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
Date: 2017
Creator: Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska (open access)

The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska

Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
Date: 1922
Creator: Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Beulah Harriss scrapbook] (open access)

[Beulah Harriss scrapbook]

Scrapbook of photographs belonging to Beulah Harriss, a 1914 graduate of the University of Nebraska, who came to Denton to teach at the North Texas State Normal College. She was the first woman to be hired into the athletics department of the school, coaching women's basketball among other sports. Harriss also organized the first Denton Girl Scouts troop in 1919, founded the Green Jackets Club in 1926, and was one of 13 professors from North Texas State Teachers College who started the Denton County Teachers Federal Credit Union (DATCU) in 1936. The scrapbook contains 11 loose photos which have been scanned and ordered after the pages of the book. More information about the contents of the photographs can be found in the finding aid for the Historical Collection, found at http://findingaids.library.unt.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=779.
Date: 19XX
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library