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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
Beekeeping in the Buckwheat Region (open access)

Beekeeping in the Buckwheat Region

"The production of the full honey crop from buckwheat requires a plan of apiary management quite different from that of most other beekeeping regions. A system of management is here given which will result in a full honey crop and at the same time control European foulbrood, which is so prevalent in the buckwheat region. Methods are also given which may be used in case the clovers are valuable as sources of nectar." -- p. 2
Date: 1922
Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951 & Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beekeeping in the Tulip-Tree Region (open access)

Beekeeping in the Tulip-Tree Region

"Many thousand colonies of bees occur in the region where the tulip-tree is abundant but the honey crop from tulip-tree flowers inconsiderable. Too few beekeepers in this region have modern equipment, it is true, but the greatest loss comes from the fact that they do not care for their bees so as to have them ready to gather the abundant nectar from this early-blooming tree. In this bulletin a methods is given for the management of the apiary so that the full honey crop from this source may be obtained." -- p. 2
Date: 1922
Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951 & Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Client Card: Allied Supply Corporation] (open access)

[Client Card: Allied Supply Corporation]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. John S. Wise of Allied Supply Corporation, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Joy of Waters."
Date: August 1957
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Miss Mary Byrd] (open access)

[Client Card: Miss Mary Byrd]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Mary Byrd, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included "Small Dog".
Date: July 1931
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Albert G. Balz] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Albert G. Balz]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Albert G. Balz, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece Included: "Bronze Mask of Edgar Allan Poe" (10 copies; wooden base).
Date: April 1937
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Carroll K. Bassett] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Carroll K. Bassett]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Carroll K. Bassett, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry.
Date: December 1928
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. George E. Barksdale] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. George E. Barksdale]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. George E. Barksdale, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Portrait Head".
Date: November 1954
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. John A. Church] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. John A. Church]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. John A. Church, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Edgar Allan Poe".
Date: May 1959
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Dorothy R. Bottom] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Dorothy R. Bottom]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Dorothy R. Bottom, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry.
Date: October 1966
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Elisha Barksdale] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Elisha Barksdale]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Elisha Barksdale, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This order includes a life-size plaster cast of a lady's head, and a plaster cast and bronze cast of a frog piped for water.
Date: October 1936
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Wings of Excellence] (open access)

[Clipping: Wings of Excellence]

Magazine clipping of an article about the history of women in aviation.
Date: August 1995
Creator: Novak, C. James
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease (open access)

The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease

Report discussing the spread of the chestnut bark disease, including its causes, symptoms, modes of transmission, financial consequences, and the possible methods of controlling it.
Date: 1911
Creator: Metcalf, Haven, 1875-1940 & Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), b. 1863
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Culture of Winter Wheat in the Eastern United States (open access)

The Culture of Winter Wheat in the Eastern United States

Report discussing best practices for growing winter wheat in the eastern United States. Topics discussed include soils adapted to wheat cultivation, fertilizers, seed selection and preparation, and crop rotation.
Date: 1914
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Culture of Winter Wheat in the Eastern United States (open access)

The Culture of Winter Wheat in the Eastern United States

Revised edition. Report discussing best practices for growing winter wheat in the eastern United States. Topics discussed include soils adapted to wheat cultivation, fertilizers, seed selection and preparation, and crop rotation.
Date: 1917
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Delta Sigma Theta Awards Gala at the 42nd national convention] captions transcript

[Delta Sigma Theta Awards Gala at the 42nd national convention]

Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters shown during the Delta Sigma Theta Awards Gala. The footage shows an animated slideshow with photo slides of famous members of the sorority along with their names and city. A narrator speaks over the slideshow giving a brief description of the women's accomplishments. The women commonly serve their community in positions of education, politics, civil rights, and public service.
Date: October 6, 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
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
The Feldspars of the New England and North Appalachian States (open access)

The Feldspars of the New England and North Appalachian States

From Introduction: "The investigations presented in this bulletin have been undertaken by the bureau with a view to a better understanding of the conditions which confront the producer of commercial feldspar and also with the object of determining wherein the various deposits of feldspar differ."
Date: 1916
Creator: Watts, A. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Injury Experience in the Coking Industry, 1951 (open access)

Injury Experience in the Coking Industry, 1951

From Introduction and Summary: "Reports from operating companies showed that 25,715 men worked at coke ovens in 1951, about 6 percent more than were employed in 1950 and, except in 1943, the largest work force since 1930, when 28,139 men were employed. The work time for all employees was 70,190,493 man-hours. The returns indicated an average of 344 work days per man as compared with 341 days in the previous year. Accidents at the ovens resulted in the death of 10 and injury to 768 workers, both of these figures representing fewer injuries than in 1950."
Date: 1954
Creator: Reese, Seth T.; Kearney, Naomi W. & Miller, Elizabeth A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Jacqueline Cochran's Typed Daily Schedule: December 1969 to December 1973] (open access)

[Jacqueline Cochran's Typed Daily Schedule: December 1969 to December 1973]

Text of Jacqueline Cochran's typed daily schedule from December 21, 1969, to December 15, 1973, including golf tournaments, doctor appointments, hair appointments, Arthritis Foundation committee meetings, dinner meetings, budget meetings, and board meetings. Entries include day of week, time, and location. They also include personal handwritten notes on some entries.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Albertina J. M. Ravenhorst to Isaac H. Kempner, July 8, 1963] (open access)

[Letter from Albertina J. M. Ravenhorst to Isaac H. Kempner, July 8, 1963]

Letter from Albertina J. M. Ravenhorst to Isaac H. Kempner discussing transportation plans for the latter's upcoming trip.
Date: July 8, 1963
Creator: Ravenhorst, Albertina J. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Alex Bradford to the Oren Fire Apparatus Company - January 3, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Alex Bradford to the Oren Fire Apparatus Company - January 3, 1944]

Letter from Alex Bradford to the Oren Fire Apparatus Company discussing Mr. Bradford's interest in the Oren Fire Engine that was built specifically for the Defense Plant Corporation.
Date: January 3, 1944
Creator: Bradford, Alex
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charles E. Schafer to Mr. I. H. Kempner, November 23, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from Charles E. Schafer to Mr. I. H. Kempner, November 23, 1949]

Letter from Charles E. Schafer to Mr. I. H. Kempner expressing thanks for conveying remarks from the President of Washington & Lee and assisting Morgan in gaining entrance to the company.
Date: November 23, 1949
Creator: Schafer, Charles E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 20, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 20, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Aitchison Topeka & Santa Fe stationary, discussing her trip to Wichita, visits with people in Dallas and Atlanta, traveling to Richmond, and her anxiety about having to fly over New York City.
Date: 1943-12-20?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History