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Map to illustrate the Civil War.

Map shows state boundaries, military posts, major cities, and notable physical features. Inset: "North Eastern Virginia." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:9,216,000].
Date: 1885
Creator: A. S. Barnes & Co.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biodiversity of Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) of the South-Central Nearctic and Adjacent Neotropical Biotic Provinces (open access)

Biodiversity of Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) of the South-Central Nearctic and Adjacent Neotropical Biotic Provinces

The south-central United States serves as an important biogeographical link and dispersal corridor between Nearctic and Neotropical elements of western hemisphere odonate faunas. Its species are reasonably well known because of substantial collections, but there has been no concerted effort to document the extent of biodiversity and possible geographic affinities of dragonflies and damselflies of this region. The recent discoveries of Argia leonorae Garrison, Gomphus gonzalezi Dunkle and Erpetogomphus heterodon Garrison from southern and western Texas and northern Mexico suggest that Odonata species remain to be discovered in this area, particularly from far south Texas and northern Mexico. I have documented a total of 12,515 records of Odonata found in 408 counties within the south-central U.S. A total of 73 species of damselflies and 160 species of dragonflies was revealed in the region. The 233 (197 in Texas) Odonata species are distributed among 10 families and 66 genera. Illustrated family, generic, and species-level keys are provided. Since the beginning of this work in the Fall of 1993, one species has been added each to the Louisiana and Oklahoma faunas, and 12 species have been added, previously unreported from Texas, including four new to the U.S. The area of highest Odonata …
Date: May 1999
Creator: Abbott, John C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Map of Texas with Parts of the Adjoining States.

Map of Texas and parts of Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma (Indian Territory), showing land grants, property lines, and ownership. The map also includes towns, forts, rivers, creeks, and areas of elevations. Includes notes on various geological features as well as a note written and signed by the General Land Office Commissioner, complete with an official General Land Office seal. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1837
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas, Part of New Mexico &c.

Atlas map of Texas and New Mexico as well as parts of Oklahoma (Indian Territory), northern Mexico, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Shows counties, towns, military posts, areas of American Indian habitation, American Indian reservations, roads, railroads, and geological features.
Date: 1856
Creator: Bartholomew, J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture (open access)

Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture

This report discusses birds commonly found in the southeastern United States with special regard to their diets and the impact these birds have on agriculture and insects in this region.
Date: 1916
Creator: Beal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles), 1840-1916; McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962 & Kalmbach, E. R. (Edwin Richard), 1884-1972
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture (open access)

Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture

Revised edition. This report discusses birds commonly found in the southeastern United States with special regard to their diets and the impact these birds have on agriculture and insects in this region.
Date: 1918
Creator: Beal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles), 1840-1916; McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962 & Kalmbach, E. R. (Edwin Richard), 1884-1972
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lower Mississippi Valley Ecological Inventory: User's Guide and Information Base (open access)

Lower Mississippi Valley Ecological Inventory: User's Guide and Information Base

"The objective [of this report] is to produce an inventory of those important ecological along the lower Mississippi River on which siting of major industrial facilities and land clearing operations could have an impact."
Date: May 1983
Creator: Beccasio, Angelo D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999

Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, vice-chair of the Kerr County Historical Commission from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Snodgrass talks about growing up on a primitive ranch, struggling to survive during the Depression, meeting and marrying her husband, their family, their involvement with music, and her efforts to preserve the history of Kerr County. She also briefly discusses the honors and awards her volunteer work has earned her. Pages 2-13 include a written statement by Miles Abernathy Lowrence, Clarabelle's maternal great-uncle.
Date: September 25, 1999
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bollworm or Corn Earworm (open access)

The Bollworm or Corn Earworm

"Cotton bollworm, corn earworm, tomato fruitworm, and false budworm of tobacco are common names applied to one and the same insect when it is found attacking these various crops. In fact the insect is a very general feeder, attacking many wild plants as well as garden vegetables, alfalfa, cowpeas, and the crops indicated above. The bollworm, or corn earworm as it is most widely known, occurs as a pest in practically all parts of the United States." -- p. 3. This bulletin discusses the life cycle of the insect, its distribution, and measures for its control.
Date: 1917
Creator: Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry), 1884-1970
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[UT Students' Army Training Corps Memo Number 33] (open access)

[UT Students' Army Training Corps Memo Number 33]

Memorandum outlining the Depot Zone plan to facilitate the distribution of quartermaster supplies in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Boyle, John B.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Roundheaded Apple-Tree Borer (open access)

The Roundheaded Apple-Tree Borer

This report discusses the roundheaded apple-tree borer, an insect in the eastern and midwestern United States that, in its larval stage, destroys the bark and wood of apple trees. Several methods of control are discussed, including worming, paints and washes, and sprays.Apple-tree borers.
Date: 1915
Creator: Brooks, Fred E.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from W. O. Caraway to E. E. Saeger, December 8, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from W. O. Caraway to E. E. Saeger, December 8, 1954]

Letter from W. O. Caraway to E. E. Saeger providing recipient information for Christmas gift packages, which would be paid for by D. W. Kempner.
Date: December 8, 1954
Creator: Caraway, W. O.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prairie Rice Culture in the United States (open access)

Prairie Rice Culture in the United States

Report discussing the cultivation of rice on the Gulf coastal plain, primarily in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. Contains sections on varieties, irrigation, seeding, drainage, and harvesting.
Date: 1920
Creator: Chambliss, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1871-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Map of Texas shewing [sic.] the grants in possession of the Colorado & Red River Land Compy.

Map shows settlements, major roads, mining activity, former and contemporary land empresarios and companies and their boundaries; overlapping boundaries for Mexican states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas; adjacent Missouri Territory, Arkansas Territory, and Louisiana. Includes population statistics, acreage, and notes. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:2,740,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Andrews, March 26, 2004 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Andrews, March 26, 2004

Interview with John Andrews, a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps from Kentwood, Louisiana. The transcript includes a list of questions regarding Andrews's training and service in World War II as a B-29 command pilot and flight instructor throughout the United States.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Coy, Larisa L. & Andrews, John
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Andrews, March 26, 2004 transcript

Oral History Interview with John Andrews, March 26, 2004

Interview with John Andrews, a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps from Kentwood, Louisiana. It includes a list of questions regarding Andrews's training and service in World War II as a B-29 command pilot and flight instructor throughout the United States.
Date: March 26, 2004
Creator: Coy, Larisa L. & Andrews, John
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Maps of Arkansas and Louisiana]

Map shows counties, railroads, cities and towns, and notable geographic features. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1883..1885]
Creator: Cram, George Franklin, 1841-1928
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charlyne Creger, December, 1995] (open access)

[Letter from Charlyne Creger, December, 1995]

Letter from Charlyne Creger discussing the past year's activities, such as traveling, seeing old friends, attending WASP events, and visiting her sister, Violet.
Date: December 1995
Creator: Creger, Charlyne
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Example of Intensive Farming in the Cotton Belt (open access)

An Example of Intensive Farming in the Cotton Belt

"This paper is descriptive of the improvement of an area of poor land by growing ordinary field crops under a system of farm management which aims at the incorporation of liberal amounts of organic matter in the soil as the chief factor in maintaining fertility and increased crop yields -- a practice which can not be too frequently brought to the attention of farmers. This system has produced greater returns to the farmer who practices it than any other system in use in his locality and will serve as an object lesson to many small farmers in all parts of the country." -- p. 2
Date: 1913
Creator: Crosby, M. A.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm (open access)

A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm

"In this bulletin is given the record of a 65-acre hog farm in the black prairie region of Alabama. The method of farming described is applicable to the entire area in which corn, alfalfa, and Bermuda grass can be grown. This area includes the black lands of Texas, the river bottoms of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and the alluvial soils generally in all the Southern States.... The primary object in the work of this farm was to demonstrate that hog farming is practicable in this territory, and three years' experience has led us to the conclusion that the production of alfalfa hay in this region can also be made highly profitable.... The system of farming established on the diversification farm at Uniontown, Alabama, was planned with the special view of increasing the fertility of the soil and reducing the cost of tillage by doing away with hillside ditches and adopting improved methods of cultivation." -- p. 5
Date: 1907
Creator: Crosby, M. A.; Duggar, J. F. (John Frederick), 1868- & Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Appletons' railway map of the southern states.

Map shows existing and proposed railroad routes for the southeastern United States, including northern Florida, eastern Texas, and eastern "Indian Territory." Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1856..1866]
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Appeal of Fashion Retailing as a Career: Perceptions of Fashion Merchandising Students (open access)

The Appeal of Fashion Retailing as a Career: Perceptions of Fashion Merchandising Students

This study investigated the (1) relationship of students' family and educational background to their opinions of fashion retailing as a career, and (2) preferences for fashion retail job attributes in relationship the appeal of fashion retail job profiles. A sample of 131 fashion merchandising students from five state-funded universities completed a four-part survey which measured two independent variables: student background and preferences of fashion retail job attributes and two dependent variables: opinions of fashion of retailing as a career and the appeal of fashion retail job profiles. Analyses included multiple regression, t-test, and correlations. For opinions of fashion retailing as a career, parental background was not significant while attendance at a retailing course, semester hours completed and G.P.A. had limited relationships. Fashion retail job attribute preferences were related to the appeal of fashion retail job profiles; the most preferred attribute was high personal freedom.
Date: August 1994
Creator: Daniels, Susan Leigh
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions (open access)

Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions

Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of strawberries in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Topics discussed include varieties, soil preparation, mulch and fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting, and diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1919
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions (open access)

Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions

Revised edition. Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of strawberries in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Topics discussed include varieties, soil preparation, mulch and fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting, and diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1928
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library