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Oral History Interview with Richard L. Johnston, February 17, 1999

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with William J. Alexander, a Army WWII veteran from Universal, Pennsylvania, who served as an officer of the 382nd Engineer Battalion (Separate), a unit of black enlisted troops. Alexander discusses growing up, joining the Civilian Conservation Corps, joining the Army and commissioning through OCS, training, deployment to India, building the Ledo Road, General Joseph Stilwell, constructing the 20th Bomber Command HQ, working in a steelmill, the atomic bomb, returning home, and postwar service.
Date: February 17, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Johnston, Richard L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pennsylvania Railroad System, the route of the Broadway Limited.

Map shows major railroad lines across the midwestern and northeastern states; state boundaries, cities and towns along railroad routes. Includes text notes in panels above and below map. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1923
Creator: Allen, Lane & Scott
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Baltimore & Ohio R.R. : all trains via Washington with stop-over privilege.

Map shows railroad lines for eastern United States; state boundaries, cities and towns along railroad routes. Inset: [Detail map of Memphis to New Orleans route]. Scale not given.
Date: 1921
Creator: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
BF-3711: Association of Air Medical Services, EMS Video captions transcript

BF-3711: Association of Air Medical Services, EMS Video

Video about the use of the Bell 412 for airborne EMS featuring hospital officials from across the United States discussing the capabilities and value of the 412. The video was produced for the Association of Air Medical Services, a trade association representing air medical programs and personnel.
Date: 1991
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scouting, Volume 1, Number 4, June 1, 1913 (open access)

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 4, June 1, 1913

Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: June 1, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scouting, Volume 1, Number 5, June 15, 1913 (open access)

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 5, June 15, 1913

Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: June 1, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scouting, Volume 1, Number 9, August 15, 1913 (open access)

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 9, August 15, 1913

Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: August 15, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1991] (open access)

[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1991]

Scrapbook documenting the personal life and travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1987 and 1991, including color photographs, tickets, menus, business cards, receipts, clippings, stickers, and other records of travel. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. This scrapbook also documents his time spent with friends and family.
Date: [1987..1991]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
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

A New Map of Part of the United States of North America, Exhibiting the Western Territory, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia etc.

Hand-colored engraving of the Great Lakes region of North America showing settlements, roads and topography.
Date: 1805
Creator: Cary, John
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Essential Factors in the Formation of Producer Gas (open access)

Essential Factors in the Formation of Producer Gas

From Introduction Scope and Purpose of Inquiry: "The Bureau of Mines, to which the testing and analyzing of fuels as carried on by the United States Geographical Survey has been transferred, is continuing producer-gas investigations at the testing station at Pittsburgh, Pa. Results of the gas-producer tests made at the coal-testing plant erected at St.Louis, Mo., and of a study of some of the problems that came up in the tests have been published by Geological Survey. Results of the tests made at Norfolk, Va., and Pittsburgh, Pa. and of further studies of particular problems, will be published by the Bureau of Mines."
Date: 1911
Creator: Clement, J. K.; Adams, L. H. & Haskins, C. N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States (open access)

Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States

"There are nearly 7,500 recognized species of ferns in the world, of which number over 200 are known to be native to the United States. A few species have become weed pests in this country, and it is to a discussion of the control of these weedy ferns that this bulletin is devoted. The parts of the United States in which ferns are bad weeds are, principally, (1) the hill country of the Northeastern States and the higher portions of the Appalachian Mountain region as far south as Georgia, and (2) the Pacific coast country west of the Cascade Mountains.... This publication deals only with fern eradication in the Eastern States." -- p. 1-2
Date: 1915
Creator: Cox, H. R. (Herbert Randolph)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Nancy Cunningham to Sarah “Sally” Teackle Kendall - December 2, 1778] (open access)

[Letter from Nancy Cunningham to Sarah “Sally” Teackle Kendall - December 2, 1778]

Letter from Nancy Cunningham to Sarah “Sally” Teackle Kendall describing her flight from Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, and also contains updates about Teackle's brother Severn Teackle who is imprisoned by the British on a ship anchored off Long Island. Severn Teackle is the Grandfather of Severn Teackle Wallis. Attached to this letter is a note dated 1829 written by Elizabeth Upshur Teackle explaining how she came to be in possession of this letter from her Great Aunt Sally Teackle Kendall.
Date: December 2, 1778
Creator: Cunningham, Nancy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Middle and part of the southern states.

Map shows county boundaries, major towns, and notable physical features for New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and a portion of Virginia; the Erie Canal. Includes explanation of population. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1830
Creator: D.F. Robinson & Co. (Hartford, Conn.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Middle and part of the southern states.

Map shows county boundaries, major towns, and notable physical features for New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and a portion of Virginia; the Erie Canal. Includes explanation of population. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1830
Creator: D.F. Robinson & Co. (Hartford, Conn.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

United States of North America: Eastern & Central [Sheet 1]

Map shows proposed Pacific Railway routes and existing transportation routes across the mid-nineteenth century northeast United States. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,294,720].
Date: 1863
Creator: Ettling, Theodor, b. 1823
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ann Upshur Eyre to her step-father John Upshur - May 19, 1796] (open access)

[Letter from Ann Upshur Eyre to her step-father John Upshur - May 19, 1796]

Letter from Ann Upshur Eyre to her step-father, John Upshur of Brownsville, written while Ann attended boarding school in Philadelphia. The letter discusses family news, health issues and upcoming nuptials for John Upshur.
Date: May 19, 1796
Creator: Eyre, Ann Upshur
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910 (open access)

Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910

From Scope of Report: "The purpose of this report is, therefore, to present in convenient form all the more important data accumulated in the course of the tests described, in order that the results may be readily accessible both to the Government officials having charge of the design, purchase, or care of power plants and to all persons interested in the development of the internal-combustion engine and the gas producer as means for utilizing the energy of fuels."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H. & Smith, C. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incidental Problems in Gas-Producer Tests (open access)

Incidental Problems in Gas-Producer Tests

From Introduction: "In the course of this study many incidental problems of prime importance have demanded consideration. Among them is the determination, under practically constant conditions, of the duration of gas-producer tests necessary to reduce the possible error to minimum. A discussion of this proper length of test period forms the part of this bulletin."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H.; Smith, C. D.; Clement, J. K. & Grine, H. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent Development of the Producer-Gas Power Plant in the United States (open access)

Recent Development of the Producer-Gas Power Plant in the United States

From Introduction: "A summary of the tests made at St. Louis and a resume of the conclusions to be drawn from the tests and from the opinions of gas-producer manufacturers on the status of the gas producer and gas engine was published in a Survey bulletin in 1907. As it is desirable to repeat much of the material that appeared in the former bulletin (now out of print), this presentation may be regarded as a revision of the previous one, although considerable information not previously available for publication has been added."
Date: 1910
Creator: Fernald, Robert Heywood
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives (open access)

Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives

From Introduction: "For purpose of procuring data that could be using in estimating the value of the briquetting process as applied to American fuels, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with other interests, began in 1904, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, certain experiments involving the production and use of bituminous-coal briquets."
Date: 1911
Creator: Goss, W. F. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Yields of Light Oil, Tar, and Constituents from Carbonization Tests at 800 Degrees, 900 Degrees, and 1,000 Degrees Celsius (open access)

Comparative Yields of Light Oil, Tar, and Constituents from Carbonization Tests at 800 Degrees, 900 Degrees, and 1,000 Degrees Celsius

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on testing done on a variety of American coals collected from 32 coal beds across the country. The carbonizing properties of samples tested at 3 different temperatures are presented. This report includes tables, and graphs.
Date: March 1943
Creator: Holmes, C. R.; Wilson, J. E. & Davis, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wheat Scab and Its Control (open access)

Wheat Scab and Its Control

This bulletin discusses wheat scab, a fungal disease of wheat, rye, barley, and oats that is caused by a parasite. It describes the appearance of afflicted crops as well as the parasite's life cycle and proposes a variety of control measures.
Date: 1921
Creator: Johnson, Aaron G. & Dickson, James G. (James Geere), b. 1891
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 15, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 15, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing delivering an aircraft to Washington D.C., traveling to Wilmington and Philadelphia, and mentions that she will be returning to Dallas.
Date: 1943-12-15?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History