[News Script: Deer] (open access)

[News Script: Deer]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first deer killing of the season.
Date: November 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Rocky Rest Photograph #1]

Photograph of Rocky Rest, in Burnet, Texas.
Date: August 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Bricks] (open access)

[News Script: Bricks]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a brick cleaning invention, made by Lester Bowles, being presented to the A. Jay Brick and Salvage company in Fort Worth.
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

General highway map Burnet County Texas [Sheet 2]

Map shows city boundaries, highways and roads, lakes, state parks, railroads, and structures in Burnet County, Texas during the mid-twentieth century. Inset: "Spicewood." Includes legend, key to sheets, population statistics. Scale not given.
Date: 1952
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

General highway map Burnet County Texas [Sheet 1]

Map shows city boundaries, highways and roads, lakes, state parks, railroads, and structures in Burnet County, Texas during the mid-twentieth century. Insets: "Oakalla," "Briggs," "Joppa," "Lake Victor," "Bertram." Includes legend, key to sheets, population statistics. Scale not given.
Date: 1952
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Wendell Tarver and Sons]

Photograph of Dr. Wendell Lee Tarver and his oldest sons, John Arthur (right) and Byron Lee (left). The two boys are seated on the grassy lawn outside of a house in Burnet, Texas; Dr. Tarver is crouched down behind Byron. The wooden siding of the house and plants along the foundation are visible in the background.
Date: 1958~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 12, Number 3, December 1951 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 12, Number 3, December 1951

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: December 1951
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of People Standing Inside a Cave]

Photograph of a group of people in a cave posing for a portrait at Longhorn Caverns State Park. Two people are holding children, and a couple is standing apart from the rest of group.
Date: December 7, 1952
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Inside of a Cave]

Photograph of a cave at the Longhorn Caverns State Park. There is a group of people standing inside a cave with a park ranger, and one woman is sitting on the wall.
Date: December 7, 1952
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Longhorn Caverns State Park]

Photograph of a view of Longhorn Caverns State Park. There are steps down into the caverns, and there is a house on a hill in the background.
Date: December 7, 1952
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Dam blast] captions transcript

[News Clip: Dam blast]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dynamiting of a dam on the Colorado River in Marble Falls to create a lake.
Date: July 31, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Certified Copy: Birth Certificate of Wendell Lee Tarver [#1] (open access)

Certified Copy: Birth Certificate of Wendell Lee Tarver [#1]

Certified copy of the birth certificate for Wendell Tarver who was born in Burnet on May 16, 1931.
Date: June 7, 1954
Creator: Burnet County (Tex.) Clerk.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. D. Weaver to W. L. Tarver, June 1954] (open access)

[Letter from T. D. Weaver to W. L. Tarver, June 1954]

Letter from T. D. Weaver, the Executive Secretary of the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners written to Wendell Tarver to confirm that he passed the veterinary licensing exam (with a final score of 77) and will be receiving an official license to practice. It includes an envelope addressed to Dr. Tarver in Burnet and postmarked June 11, 1954.
Date: June 11, 1954
Creator: Weaver, T. D.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Wirtz dam] captions transcript

[News Clip: Wirtz dam]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 17, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial of Longhorn Caverns Entrance]

Photograph of the entrance to Longhorn Caverns from an aerial point of view. The cavern entrance and roadways leading to it can be seen at the bottom center while the surrounding natural landscape stretches out to the horizon. Various small building structures can be seen on the campus of the cavern entrance.
Date: January 23, 1953
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas (open access)

High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas

"The primary purpose of this paper is to report the presence and distribution of a high purity limestone in the Marble Falls limestone in the vicinity of Marble Falls" (p. 5).
Date: September 1952
Creator: Barnes, Virgil E. (Virgil Everett), 1903-1998
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Kempner 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: 1954
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lampasas 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: 1954
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gorman Falls 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

Waco

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 1:250000
Date: 1955
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lampasas 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 1:24000
Date: 1957
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gorman Falls 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 1:24000
Date: 1959
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Review] (open access)

[News Script: Review]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week.
Date: August 5, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Frogmen] (open access)

[News Script: Frogmen]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Camp Longhorn near Burnet, Texas, that focuses on swimming.
Date: July 28, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library