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Driving scraper 1,000 miles LT21 (open access)

Driving scraper 1,000 miles LT21

Magazine article for Country Extra Magazine about the author driving a used LeTourneau D Pull Scraper for around $7,000 in 1957 and driving it more than 1,000 miles from Shreveport, Louisiana to Ulysses, Nebraska. :Published 2015-03.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Novak, Gene E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
England vs. The City of Dallas, Mack Vines, and the State of Texas (open access)

England vs. The City of Dallas, Mack Vines, and the State of Texas

Personal recollections of Mica England about her experience filing a lawsuit against the Dallas Police Department after they refused to hire her because she was a lesbian and admitted to having broken Texas Penal Code ยง21.06, which made sexual acts between same sex couples a misdemeanor. The text and images were captured from a webpage. Images of England, members of The Dallas Way board of directors, Dallas Police Chief Lupe Valdez, and Dallas Police Major Barbara Hobbs are embedded in the text.
Date: May 10, 2015
Creator: England, Mica & Williams, Paul J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
20 Mule Team (open access)

20 Mule Team

This photograph from the front cover of an issue of the Hexagon Journal displays the mock 20 mule team that stands outside of the Rio Tinto Borax Museum in Boron, California. The mule team depicts the original mode used to transport the chemical compound, borax, out of Death Valley between 1883 and 1888. A description of the photograph is shown on page 23 of the journal.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library