[News Script: Weather] (open access)

[News Script: Weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe storms and tornadoes in Fort Worth, Boyd, and Eagle Mountain Lake and the damage throughout those areas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gas Wells] (open access)

[News Script: Gas Wells]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about oil drilling near Bridgeport at a location called "Morris-Gill Number One."
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Old Folks] (open access)

[News Script: Old Folks]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a few elderly people visiting Decatur for the Wise County Centennial. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ross and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Sedgewick visit the festival.
Date: October 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth water] (open access)

[News Script: Fort Worth water]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the drought affecting Texas in spite of heavy rains.
Date: May 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: College to Expand After Forty Years] (open access)

[News Script: College to Expand After Forty Years]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Decatur Baptist College, which holds a ground-breaking ceremony for the new Killian Library.
Date: January 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Tip sends officers to grave--of dog] (open access)

[News Script: Tip sends officers to grave--of dog]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two small caskets buried near Newark. Officers believe the caskets may hold the bodies of aborted babies, but they hold the bodies of dead dogs instead.
Date: January 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

General highway map, Wise County, Texas.

Map shows roads, oilfields, airfields, railroads, towns, and structure locations. Includes legend and key to counties. Insets: "Greenwood," "Park Springs," "Paradise," "Slidell," "Aurora," "Crafton," "Inset No. 1," and "Boonsville." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:63,360].
Date: 1958
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photograph of Denton County, DJR-2P-143]

Aerial photograph of an area of land in Denton County, Texas surveyed by the Texas Highway Department with handwritten notes of numbers, county line indicator, and roads. Major roads include: US-287.
Date: September 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Blacksmith at shop]

Photograph of two men crouching on the ground and working with equipment. They are both wearing hats, shirts, and overalls. There are buildings and trees in the background.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph of blacksmith at shop]

Photograph of a man working with a leaf vacuum truck loader. He is wearing a hat, a shirt, and an overall. There are vehicles and trees in the background.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Modern Metal Shop

Photograph of two men building hay feeders for livestock. There are vehicles, houses, trees, and utility poles in the background.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Blacksmith at shop welding metal]

Photograph of a blacksmith crouching on the ground in a welding mask and welding metal in a workshop. He is wearing a light-colored shirt, pants, socks, shoes, and gloves. In the background, there are pieces of machinery and tools.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Old Time Blacksmith at Shop]

Photograph of Old Time Blacksmith Shop in Rhome, Texas. There is a light-colored building in the back. There are two automobiles parked in front of the building. Trees and utility poles can be seen in the image.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph of Modern Metal Shop]

Photograph of a man in a welding mask and welding a hay feeder for livestock. He is wearing a hat, a shirt, gloves, and overall. He has one hand on his hips. There is a door visible in the background.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph of four men in a blacksmith shop]

Photograph of four men inside a blacksmith building. Three men are seated on chairs and one man is crouching on the ground. One of the men is holding an object in his hands. They appear to be in a conversation. In the background, there are pieces of machinery and tools.
Date: August 20, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Blanche Perry Painting for Decatur, Texas] (open access)

[Blanche Perry Painting for Decatur, Texas]

Black and white photograph of baptistry painting done by Perry for a church in Decatur, Texas. Scene depicts creek, rocks, different types of trees, mountains, clouds. Inscription on back bears the name "Bob Buchanan" and also the place names "Decatur, Tex [Texas]" and "Snyder, Okla [Oklahoma]."
Date: January 24, 1950
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Girl charged in mystery slaying] (open access)

[News Script: Girl charged in mystery slaying]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young woman charged in Decatur with two mysterious murders of unknown motive.
Date: July 2, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0151]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Headed toward freedom for the first time in 25 years but still in custody, Kathryn Kelly and her mother, Mrs. Ora Shannon, leave the U.S. marshal's office after new trials were granted by U.S. district Judge W.R. Wallace."
Date: June 16, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Clip: Dallas Weather, Lodge, Weather] captions transcript

[News Clip: Dallas Weather, Lodge, Weather]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a severe storm in Dallas and the damage sustained in Richardson and South Oak Cliff, severe storms and tornadoes in Fort Worth, Boyd, and Eagle Mountain Lake and the damage throughout those areas. The video also includes a news story about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and his address before the American Bar Association in Dallas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0159]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: June 16, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0160]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: June 17, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Angus bull is sold for record figure] (open access)

[News Script: Angus bull is sold for record figure]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a champion bull at a farm in Decatur selling for a record price of $100,000.
Date: February 1, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Poolville Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1959
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Comparison of Boys' and Girls' Achievement Scores and Teacher Ratings (open access)

A Comparison of Boys' and Girls' Achievement Scores and Teacher Ratings

It is the primary purpose of this study to determine any differences in the achievement abilities and teacher ratings of the boys and girls of equal intelligence quotients in the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades of the Alvord Elementary School, Alvord, Texas. A secondary purpose is to make a study of the environmental background of a number of pupils in order to determine certain other factors that might be considered as producing some influence upon the success or failure of the boy or girl.
Date: 1951
Creator: Kilpatrick, Inez Speer
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library