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West Indies

This map shows Central America and the surrounding Caribbean area. Cities are marked as well as bodies of water, and geographic features (with relief shown by hachures).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Florida - Caribbean] (open access)

[News Script: Florida - Caribbean]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 9, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

The seat of war in the West Indies.

Map shows overview of coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean area; port towns of Portobelo, Havana, Veracruz, and Cartagena, illustrated profile of the approach to Havana harbor, the castle of San Juan de Ulúa, and Veracruz; roads, streets, buildings, and fortifications. Includes historical notes, legends, and one view, "A prospect of the Havana." Insets: [Map of] "A long sandy bay called St. John's Bay," [Map of the] "Bay of Honda or the deep bay in Cuba," "View of the town and its port by Capt. Pearson," and "View of the castle of San Juan de Ulúa from ye town by Capt. Pearson." Relief shown by hachures, pictorially and profile. Depths shown by soundings. No scale noted.
Date: 1762
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Spanish Dominions in North America.

Map shows early nineteenth century cities, towns, ports, and geography of Spanish territory in North America. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:18,000,000]. Map is detached from A New and Elegant General Atlas by Arrowsmith and Lewis [1805].
Date: 1805
Creator: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cuba.

Map shows western and eastern departments of Cuba each subdivided into lesser states, the Bahamas, the southern tip of Florida with the Everglades, and shipping routes. Includes historical notes. Scale [ca. 1:3,485,000].
Date: 1872
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus, ‡c Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

West Indies.

Map shows Shows the Florida peninsula, the "Bahama or Lucaya Islands," lower Mexico adjacent to Panama, the northern coast of South America as "Columbia," the "Great Antilles," the "Little Antilles," Cuba, Jamaica, "Hispaniola or St. Domingo," "Porto Rico," and the "Caribbee Islands." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1820..1830]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543 (open access)

Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543

Book containing three translated narratives of early Spanish explorers in what would become the Southern United States. This includes the paths taken by the explorers, the people they encountered, and hardships they endured.
Date: 1984
Creator: Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent. & Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, 16th cent.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Flight] (open access)

[News Script: Flight]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 6, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijacking] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacking]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 10, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijacking] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacking]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 10, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijackers] (open access)

[News Script: Hijackers]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 3, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijacks] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacks]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 19, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Evelyn Brown, October 30, 2007

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Evelyn Brown, Vietnam War-era veteran of the US Navy, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Brown's personal experiences of childhood and education in Pennsylvania, attending nursing school, enlisting in the Navy Nurse Corps, and being involved with veterans organizations. Additionally, Brown discusses her coming out experience, her assignment to facilities in Florida, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Quantico, Virginia, her decision to leave service upon assignment to USS Sanctuary, a hospital ship stationed off the coast of Vietnam, and her opinions regarding the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Date: October 30, 2007
Creator: Mims, Dennis Michael & Brown, Evelyn
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment (open access)

UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment

This publication provides an overview of global and regional environmental issues policy decisions during 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

A map of the British empire in America : with the French, Spanish and the Dutch settlements adjacent thereto.

Map is one of four sheets by Popple that depict the geography, settlements, and political borders in mid-nineteenth century North America and South America. This sheet shows southern Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, Yucatan, Guatimala, Darien [Panama], and most of Cuba. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1733?
Creator: Popple, Henry, d. 1743
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Le golfe de Mexique et les isles voisine.

Map shows the geography, cities, ports, and distances between points of interest in the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, and West Indies. No scale indicated.
Date: 1700?
Creator: Mortier, Pierre
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A general chart of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico : Describing the gulf and windward passages, coasts of Florida, Louisiana, and Mexico, Bay of Honduras and Mosquito Shore; likewise the chart of the Spanish Main to the mouths of the Orinoco [Sheet 1].

Map shows geography and settlements along the Gulf of Mexico coastline, Florida coast along Atlantic Ocean, and most of the Cuba coastline. Scale not indicated.
Date: 1855
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carta esferica de las costas del seno mexicano con parte de la isla de Cuba y canales adjacentes.

Map shows detail along the Mexico, Cuba, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida coastlines. Names of the Provincia de los Tejas are given. No scale indicated.
Date: 1836
Creator: Spain. Dirección de Hidrografía.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543 (open access)

Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543

Book containing three translated narratives of early Spanish explorers in what would become the Southern United States. This includes the paths taken by the explorers, the people they encountered, and hardships they endured.
Date: 2017
Creator: Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent. & Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, 16th cent.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Hijacked plane passengers] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacked plane passengers]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 11, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Vietnam] (open access)

[News Script: Vietnam]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Cuban government who says that it is sending some 400 workers to North Vietnam to help repair war damage.
Date: December 24, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library