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[Texas National Guard Infantry]

Photograph of the Texas National Guard infantrymen posing on the lawn of the Denton County courthouse. The men are all wearing uniform and are arranged in two rows, one standing and one kneeling, with four additional men seated in the front. Parts of the courthouse and buildings are visible behind them.
Date: August 6, 1927
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Inez Evans North Texas State Normal College diploma] (open access)

[Inez Evans North Texas State Normal College diploma]

Diploma from North Texas State Normal College certifying that Inez Evans has completed the necessary coursework to earn a degree of Bachelor of Arts. At the top of the document is an illustration of the Texas Coat of Arms; a star of five points, encircled by a wreath of olive and live oak branches The Certificate is signed by President William Herschel Bruce and President of the Board of Regents M. O. Flowers. At the bottom of the diploma it is embossed with the North Texas State Normal College seal.
Date: August 25, 1922
Creator: North Texas Normal College
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Office of the Provost (open access)

Office of the Provost

A card announcing the appointment of Dr. Kathleen cooper as the Dean of the College of Business Administration. The card includes a biography of Dr. Cooper.
Date: August 2005
Creator: University of North Texas
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teachers Temporary Certificate (open access)

Teachers Temporary Certificate

A temporary teachers certificate from the Texas Department of Education presented to Izetta Sparks.
Date: August 19, 1921
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas State Teachers College Twenty-Fifth Annual Commencement (open access)

North Texas State Teachers College Twenty-Fifth Annual Commencement

Pamphlet for the North Texas State Teachers College's annual commencement ceremony that was held on Tuesday morning, August 17th, 1926.
Date: August 7, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Jane Arden Paper Doll] (open access)

[Jane Arden Paper Doll]

Clipping from a newspaper with a strip for "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" with illustrations of a woman and several dresses that could be cut out as a paper doll. The reverse includes a portion of the comic strip "Little Mary Mixup."
Date: August 20, 1939
Creator: Barrett, Monte & Ross, Russell E.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Slave Cases (open access)

Texas Slave Cases

A document composed of brief descriptions of all cases in Texas where the enslaved served as plaintiffs, victims, property, or criminal defendants. The list was compiled by a criminal defense attorney who wanted to help historians with their research into legal cases involving enslaved people in Texas. The court cases are categorized in sections listed in the Table of Contents on page 2: Slaves under Spanish and Mexican Law, Freeing Slaves, Free Negroes of African Descent who Sold Themselves, Contracting with or Buying from Slaves, Testimony of Slaves, Losing Slaves, Stealing and Enticing Slaves, Loaning Slaves, Miscellaneous Prosecutions, Value of Slaves, Slaves as Gifts, Defective or Worthless Slaves, Title to Slaves, Other Property Disputes, When Civil War Began, Slavery Ended, and Confederate Money.
Date: 2018-08~
Creator: Hampton, Keith S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. – Mexican War Veterans and the Congressional Pension Fight (open access)

U.S. – Mexican War Veterans and the Congressional Pension Fight

A draft of an article published in the journal Military History of the West about the challenges U.S. - Mexican War veterans faced receiving their pensions after the Civil War.
Date: August 24, 2010
Creator: Van Wagenen, Michael Scott
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Leather Bound Town] (open access)

[Leather Bound Town]

Document of an article and images of advertisements in the Yoakum Herald Times. The article is the recent news about how Yoakum is known for its leather industry and the Tex Tan Western Leather Company. The images are the new sales in Yoakum, creating a break in the reading, and the article continues to state the growth of Tex Tan and its success in its production of leather goods.
Date: August 15, 1974
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: North Texas State University 75th Anniversary Year] (open access)

[Clipping: North Texas State University 75th Anniversary Year]

Newspaper clipping "North Texas State University 75th Anniversary Year", portion of Denton Record-Chronicle, 1964-08-30
Date: August 30, 1964
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX]

Photograph of Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX. The courthouse sits on a green lawn and is partially obscured by the foliage of tall trees planted throughout the lawn. The building is made of orange stone with white tiles on for the roofing and includes a tall clock tower at its top. The entrance of the building faces the left side of the photo and has two white doors shadowed by a balcony, above which is a column of three sets of windows. The entire building has four rows of windows spanning the width of its sides, with the topmost row of windows projecting out from the roof slightly. The clocktower on the roof sits on a short sloping base and has rectangular columns that hold up the tall sloping top of the tower, which has a white clock set into each of its sides.
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX]

Photograph of Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX. A paved parking lot occupies the foreground of the photo, occupied by multiple vehicles. A strip of yellow grass with telephone poles sitting in it separates the parking lot from the courthouse. A large tree grows behind the rightmost pole, partially obscuring the right side of the courthouse. The front side of the building faces the left side of the photo and has smaller trees growing around it. The courthouse's walls are a pale yellow, and its roof is made up by gray shingles. A set of stairs lined in red along its walls rises up to the front doors of the building, which sit in a large second-floor alcove set into the building. Rectangular columns rise through and beyond the alcove, ending at the top of the third floor of the building. The courthouse has a total of three rows of windows with the bottommost row being at the level of the entrance's stairs. The roof of the building slopes up to a flat top except for a triangular section that sits above the center of the front side of the building.
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[San Augustine County CH - San Augustine]

Photograph of San Augustine County CH - San Augustine. A yellow and green lawn surrounds the courthouse along with a line of shrubs and a handful of trees, with a tall stone slab sitting on a base in the lawn. The stone has some readable text including "In memory of those who lost their lives", "Killed in action", and "Killed in service", likely indicating it's a memorial. A sidewalk cuts through the lawn from the left side of the photo and leads up to the front doors of the courthouse. The doors have dark glass as do the three columns of windows above them. The building is made of an off-white stone with black scuffs in various places, and has a roof covered in light-colored tiles that slope upwards slightly. Across the walls of the courthouse are three rows of windows, with the row of smaller windows placed just above the ground at the bottom of the building.
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX]

Photograph of Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo while a slightly blurry parking meters appears in the bottom left corner. In front of the sidewalk across the road, slanted white lines have been painted on the road to indicate parking spaces. A short set of stairs extend from the sidewalk to a concrete walkway that leads up to another short set of stairs, which sit in front of the courthouse's front door. On either side of the walkway is the courthouse's lawn, which is filled with fluffy green bushes and tall trees with equally expansive foliage, obscuring the ends of the courthouse. The building appears rectangular in is general shape and has smooth off-white walls, an upward-sloping roof covered with red shingles, and tall windows set into white frames. The front door of the building is dark green with a half-circle shaped top, set into the center section of the wall which has a triangular pediment above it at the roof's edge. On the pediment is the wire outline of a star. Across the visible wall of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows, all curved at the top …
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wanted Poster: John Cluff Miller and Gladys Burke, Ottawa, Canada, August 26, 1914]

Wanted Poster for John Cluff Miller and Gladys Burke, issued in Ottawa, Canada, August 26, 1914.
Date: August 26, 1914
Creator: Ross, A. M.
Object Type: Image
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wanted Poster: Robert Fay, Atlanta, Georgia, August 29, 1916]

Wanted Poster for Robert Fay, issued in Atlanta, Georgia, August 29, 1916.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Zerbst, Fred G.
Object Type: Image
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wanted Poster: William Knoblock, Atlanta, Georgia, August 29, 1916]

Wanted Poster for William Knoblock, issued from Atlanta, Georgia, August 29, 1916.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Zerbst, Fred G.
Object Type: Image
System: The UNT Digital Library