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Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2013 (open access)

Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2013

Proceedings of the 49th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. It also includes the SWFAS by-laws.
Date: 2014
Creator: Robertson, Pinky
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southern Pacific (SP) 2511

A photograph postcard showing the Southern Pacific (SP) 2511, 2-8-0, on No. 16, C-17, Alamagordo, NM
Date: September 12, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005 transcript

Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Voris C. Riley of Kingland, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the military while living in Abilene, Texas and getting sent to civil service for the Army before being offered to join the Navy. In the Navy he went through basic training in San Diego, California, then to St. Louis Electrical School and finally through firefighting training in Rhode Island. After he completed his training Mr. Riley was assigned to the U.S.S. Lake Champain, CB 39 and went on a shakedown cruise where 16 crewmen were lost for various reasons. In the Navy he was an electrician aboard the ship and dealt with setting up electricity onshore. He also dealt with Prisoners of War, being put in charge of a group of them to build a swimming pool. He was in New York City on temporary leave when the news of the wars end was released by President Truman. Mr. Voris also talks about serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico.
Date: November 1, 2005
Creator: Riley, Voris C.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Voris C. Riley of Kingland, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the military while living in Abilene, Texas and getting sent to civil service for the Army before being offered to join the Navy. In the Navy he went through basic training in San Diego, California, then to St. Louis Electrical School and finally through firefighting training in Rhode Island. After he completed his training Mr. Riley was assigned to the U.S.S. Lake Champain, CB 39 and went on a shakedown cruise where 16 crewmen were lost for various reasons. In the Navy he was an electrician aboard the ship and dealt with setting up electricity onshore. He also dealt with Prisoners of War, being put in charge of a group of them to build a swimming pool. He was in New York City on temporary leave when the news of the wars end was released by President Truman. Mr. Voris also talks about serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico.
Date: November 1, 2005
Creator: Riley, Voris C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Lincolin forest fire] (open access)

[News Script: Lincolin forest fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about firefighters who are still trying to control that fire in Lincoln national forest which is in eastern New Mexico.
Date: April 9, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Drowning] (open access)

[News Script: Drowning]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a teenager who drowned in a gravel pit in the his Dallas home.
Date: April 12, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Air show plane crash] (open access)

[News Script: Air show plane crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a plane crash that occurred at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico just before an air show began (the pilot lived).
Date: March 17, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fort Sill Apache

Photograph of the Fort Sill Apache Indian camp at Mescalero, NM. View includes Roger Toclanny, c. 1913.
Date: 1913~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Sill Apache

Photograph of the Fort Sill Apache Indian camp at Mescalero, NM.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Sill Apache

Photograph of the Fort Sill Apache Indian camp at Mescalero, NM.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Alleged communist dies] (open access)

[News Script: Alleged communist dies]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 27, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ayres dead] (open access)

[News Script: Ayres dead]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Clarence Ayres dying.
Date: July 26, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: "WASPS Inspired World War II Bomber Pilots"] (open access)

[Clipping: "WASPS Inspired World War II Bomber Pilots"]

Newspaper clipping with an article of General Paul Tibbets' experience in aviation, male opinion within the military about the creation of WASP, and a brief history of WASP.
Date: October 15, 1985
Creator: Sisk, Mack
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico (open access)

Geology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico

From introduction: The present investigation is an attempt, by means of detailed areal mapping, to resolve the relations of the shelf-rock units to one another and to the reef and basin rocks and to clarify the confusing stratigraphic nomenclature.
Date: 1964
Creator: Hayes, Philip Thayer
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Page 11 of Byrd Williams Jr. album, 1907-1920]

Scrapbook page featuring 4 photos of landscapes with the original Cloudcroft Lodge, in Cloudcroft, NM, on the bottom left, and a man standing near a horse and wagon on the bottom right.
Date: 1913/1920
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: F-111] (open access)

[News Script: F-111]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the new escape system to be used on the F-111 tactical fighter, being manufactured by General Dynamics in Fort Worth.
Date: November 18, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[The Cloudcroft Lodge]

Photograph of the first Cloudcroft Lodge before succumbing to fire in 1909.
Date: 190X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1400.0457]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Touring White Sands N. M. Missile range are these four Oklahoma mayors who participated in the Operation Understanding."
Date: 1964
Creator: Official Photograph U.S. Army
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0439]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bradley Glover , attired in fire-suit surveys launcher before test firing failed."
Date: August 2, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0438]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bradley Glover, one of the 17-year old youths who developed the homemade rocket picture in the background gazes across the desert range at Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Carlsbad

Topographic quadrangle map of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 200 feet with supplementary contours at 100 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location, reliability, and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1955
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tularosa

Topographic quadrangle map of Tularosa, New Mexico, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 200 feet with supplementary contours at 100 foot intervals) and spot heights and includes location, reliability, and sectionalized township diagrams. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1958
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Roswell

Topographic quadrangle map of Roswell, New Mexico, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 200 feet with supplementary contours at 100 foot intervals) and spot heights and includes location, reliability, and sectionized township diagrams. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1958
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Las Cruces

Topographic quadrangle map of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 200 feet with supplementary contours at 100 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1955
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History