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[News Script: TI]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date:
March 1, 1969
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Murder at Clodiene]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 8:25am.
Date:
April 7, 1969, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Manhunt]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
May 30, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Manhunt]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
May 29, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Prisoners]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a search for five prisoners that broke out from the Fort Bend County Jail at Richmond.
Date:
May 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[The Championship Girls Basketball Team (1918) from Richmond]
Photograph of the Championship Girls Basketball Team (1918) from Richmond High School. Women are dressed in light colored shirts with big white collars. Five of the women have scarves around their collars. They are seated on the steps of the school with a basketball with R.H.S. Champions 1918 printed on the ball. Team members identified (written on back of photo in pencil) from left to right as: Bottom row: Lucile Rich, Rosalie Daughtery, Marguerite Wessendorff. Top row: Johnny Winder, Coach - Margaret Hodges, Aline Austin, and Mary Haggard.
Date:
1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mrs. Ashley Davis.]
Photograph of Mrs. Ashley Davis (identification written in ink on back). Woman in dark wool dress with jacket. She is wearing a matching hat. Windmill and wooden pump house in background (left). Fading across center of photo that runs from bottom.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The observance of the 100th anniversary of the Methodist Church.]
Photograph of the observance of the 100th anniversary of the Methodist Church in Richmond, Texas. As stated on back in green ink (and blue) the church was founded in 1839 (January 22) and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1939.Goup of people standing in church yard (including choir dressed in white robe tops to center of photo). Small bare shrub in right corner of photo. Church to left background. White two-story building in far background and large tree to right.
Date:
1939
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The 1899 flood. Trees in background.]
Photograph of the 1899 flood. Trees in background. Cement arch in front of trees in center of photo. Photo is mounted on cardboard substrate. Photo has ragged edges and is cracked in bottom left corner. Has black spot on far left, center. Back has tape in cracked area.
Date:
1899
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mrs. Matthew (Florence B.) Moore Newell.]
Photograph of Mrs. Matthew (Florence B.) Moore Newell. Woman wearing a white dress with ruffles at the bottom and ruffled stand-up collar. She is seated and has her hands clasped across her knee. Background has tassels hanging from fabric backdrop to the right of photo. Photo has blue ink identification written on back.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Machine
Patent for centrifugal machine. This invention is specific to centrifugal machines used as sugar-driers to separate the molasses from crystallized sugar.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Kennon, James Daniel; Dobbins, G.W. & Shields, L.T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The City Café and Meat Market in Needville, Texas.]
Photograph of the City Café and Meat Market in Needville, Texas. Meat Market is a small wooden building to right of photo. Man in walking in front of it. Another wooden building sits to the right of the meat market and a brick building sits to its left. Buggy wheel partially visible to far right of photo. Black backing (from photo album) is partially stuck to back of photo.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer
This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date:
June 2012
Creator:
Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A young man with dark hair]
Photograph mounted on cardboard substrate of a young man with dark hair, wearing dark shoes, stockings, and pants. He has a white shirt with dark scarf tied in a bow at his neck. He has his right leg crossed over his left. His left hand is resting on a wicker chair. Bottom of cardboard reads: C. O. Lorenze, Richmond, Texas.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Lorenz, C.O.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Main Street in Needville, Texas.]
Photograph of Main Street in Needville, Texas. Dry Goods, Notions Store to far right of photo. Boy wearing a hat in center of street, automobile behind him. Automobiles parked on both side of the street. Wagon and horse on far left. Photo is creased at bottom left corner. Has white spots toward center and on right. About 1923 written in pen, on back.
Date:
1923
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Fort Bend Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Fort Bend County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (2000 varas to 3/8 of an inch).
Date:
1914
Creator:
Pressler, Herman & Terrell, O. O.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Dixie Saloon. Kulcak and Horak Prop., Needville, Texas.]
Postcard image of the Dixie Saloon. Kulcak and Horak Prop., Needville, Texas. Tin building with large group of men standing on and in front of the porch. Partial view of automobile in far right corner.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Simonton School]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Simonton School, in Simonton, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date:
May 22, 2012
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Watercolor image of William Kinchen Davis.]
Salted paper enhanced with watercolor image of William Kinchen Davis. Photo is framed by a gray mat with an oval insert. Orange velvet insets in each corner. Man with blue eyes, gray hair and mustache. He is wearing a black jacket and vest with white shirt and black bowtie. Background water colored in blue.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Prison]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
September 28, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[World War I of Ligny in Barrois]
Postcard from World War I of Ligny in Barrois written by H.N. Pierce to his mother, Mrs. J.B. Pierce from Sugar Land, Texas. Photo has line of wagons on street. Buildings on left of photo. Postcard has tear on bottom (piece missing) and is crinkled in several places.
Date:
1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cousin Laura Granddaughter of Gail Borden]
Photograph (copy) of two women. Back of photo in blue ink reads: From Freeman A. Davis- Great Grandson of Kinchen W. Davis- "Cousin Laura Granddaughter of Gail Borden". Woman with wire rimmed eyeglasses on left is wearing a skirt with jacket and has her gray hair pulled back in a bun at nape of her neck. Woman on right is wearing a dark skirt, white shirt, white jacket, and black bow tie. She has her gray hair pulled back. Shrubbery (or small tree) behind them. They may be standing in front of a railed porch. Person can be seen on porch to far right of photo. Scanned image is of the copy. Copy is dark.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Ed Priester in his buggy]
Photograph (copy) of Ed Priester in his buggy. A dark horse with a least three white stocking feet (cannot see fourth) seen. Priester (who we can see only in profile) is wearing a dark colored suit with dark hat. A (at least two story) brick building is in the background. Scanned image is of copy.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History