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[Memorandum of Meeting: Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, June 9, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, June 9, 2005]

Memorandum of meeting with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)-Texas regarding Dyess AFB and other Texas bases.
Date: June 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Backwoods to Border (open access)

Backwoods to Border

Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Deaths in Texas] (open access)

[News Script: Deaths in Texas]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: May 21, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Martha R. Johnson, June 6, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Martha R. Johnson, June 6, 1998

Interview with Martha R. Johnson, owner of the popular Raleigh House Restaurant, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Johnson discusses the origins and establishment of her restaurant, which was named after her husband, Raleigh White Johnson. She described the success of the restaurant and her experiences running it for 34 summers.
Date: June 6, 1998
Creator: O'Hara, Kathy & Johnson, Martha Robinson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016

Jew Don Boney, Jr. was born in 1951 in Temple. His first experience with segregation was when his mother was initally denied entry into Scott and White Hospital when she went into labor with Boney. His parents were educators and his father wrote a dissertation on the racial biases in standarized testing while pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Boney relocated to Austin in 1966 and attended the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 1969. He became involved in Black-Brown student activism at this time. After spending a few years in radio and TV, Boney worked for the Urban League and became the Chairman of the National Black United Front Chapter in Houston. He later served as a city councilman for District D and a Mayor Pro Tem. Boney dedicated three years to the Free Clarence Bradley Campaign in order to exonerate a man falsely accused of the rape and murder of a white woman in Conroe, spent time bridging African and U.S. relations, advanced economic initiatives in Africa, and secured grants to process the Mickey Leland Papers at Texas Southern University while he served as the Associate Director for …
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Boney, Jew Don; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Backwoods to Border (open access)

Backwoods to Border

Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: S. Texas Fatal] (open access)

[News Script: S. Texas Fatal]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a three-car pileup on Texas, Somerville, left four persons dead and two others seriously injured.
Date: August 20, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

2007 Economic Census Map: Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, Texas Combined Statistical Area

Map showing the area of the Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, Texas Combined Statistical Area for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data during the 2007 economic census.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4172, Chapter 468 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4172, Chapter 468

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts, including conforming amendments.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remembering railroads (open access)

Remembering railroads

Text about railroad museums across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a February 2001 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non-Commercial House Concerts/Listening Rooms in Texas (listed alphabetically by city) (open access)

Non-Commercial House Concerts/Listening Rooms in Texas (listed alphabetically by city)

List of non-commercial house concerts and listening rooms across Texas used as research for an article that was published in the February 1998 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 1998-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[WWH: Songwriter's Paradise] (open access)

[WWH: Songwriter's Paradise]

Text about house concerts and listening rooms across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a February 1998 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1998-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pari Mutual Betting] (open access)

[News Script: Pari Mutual Betting]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the district attorney have signed a letter asking their colleagues to join them in opposing legalization of pari-mutual betting in Texas.
Date: April 30, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from E. I. Thompson to I. H. Kempner, 1944~] (open access)

[Letter from E. I. Thompson to I. H. Kempner, 1944~]

Letter from E. I. Thompson to I. H. Kempner asking Kempner to contribute to the Houston Holidays project and become a member of the organization.
Date: 1944~
Creator: Thompson, E. I.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mose M. Feld to I. H. Kempner, February 2, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Mose M. Feld to I. H. Kempner, February 2, 1945]

Letter from Mose M. Feld to I. H. Kempner requesting to know what land Kempner has for sale and wanting to hear about the Hillel Building committee meeting in Austin.
Date: February 2, 1945
Creator: Feld, Mose M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History