[News Script: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans] (open access)

[News Script: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans visiting Commerce, where they present the top national safety award to W. J. Wheeler Elementary School.
Date: February 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Loot Recovered as Theft Suspect Held] (open access)

[News Script: Loot Recovered as Theft Suspect Held]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the capture and arrest of thief Harley F. Bean of various objects, one being a 17-foot boat.
Date: June 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-513 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-513

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the County Commissioners of Hunt County drive and operate motor vehicles owned and maintained by the county in the performance of their duties and also draw the monthly expense allowance authorized under Section 2, Article 2350n, Vernon's Civil Statutes, and related questions.
Date: October 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Hot rods] (open access)

[News Script: Hot rods]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the North Texas Regional Drag Race in Caddo Mills.
Date: August 3, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Aviation show at TEMCO] captions transcript

[News Clip: Aviation show at TEMCO]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about an open house and air show at the Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Company in Greenville.
Date: September 18, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Williamson] (open access)

[News Script: Williamson]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Williamson clan stealing $300 from a 67-year-old man from Greenville, Texas.
Date: January 21, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cyclist] (open access)

[News Script: Cyclist]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a French cyclist, Guy Chassagnard, passing through North Texas on a cross-country bike tour.
Date: January 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1129.0624]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An Oklahoma City businessman, Al Robertson, whose fame as as a sale consultant keeps him hopping around the nation, will direct the sales training section of the Eighth annual Management Institute of the Retail Furniture Assn. of Texas that opens its 4-day session Monday in Hunt, Texas."
Date: May 11, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Greenville holds Sam Rayburn day] (open access)

[News Script: Greenville holds Sam Rayburn day]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Greenville's celebration for Sam Rayburn being elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: December 21, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from James G. Gee to Truett Latimer, September 9, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from James G. Gee to Truett Latimer, September 9, 1954]

Letter from James G. Gee to Truett Latimer requesting he visit the Texas State Teachers College and attend a game at some point, offering him a season pass to all games played on campus.
Date: September 9, 1954
Creator: Gee, James G.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Surgeon: an Autobiography (open access)

Texas Surgeon: an Autobiography

This autobiographical account of Dr. Donald Taylor Atkinson tells "the story of the life of a world-renowned doctor who overcame tremendous financial obstacles in order to gain an education" (vii). The author chronicles his family's history, his upbringing in Canada, as well as his journey towards becoming a surgeon in Texas.
Date: 1958
Creator: Atkinson, Donald Taylor
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Van Vleck 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: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sherman

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: 1959
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Wild goose leads sheep] captions transcript

[News Clip: Wild goose leads sheep]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a wild goose with a hurt leg taking up residence on a farm in Commerce.
Date: October 31, 1951, 6:45 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a new waterway that has been marked out as shown in this photo. Note posts in the right and left background which designate the waterway boundaries. The waterway has an average width of 125 feet and follows a natural depression. After cotton has been picked the seed bed will be prepared and the waterway location will be sodded to Bermuda grass. Class III, Soil Unit 2, BL. TX-48-835.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Brock, C. G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of land prepared with waterway ready for sodding. J. D. Davis, Soil Conservation District [SCD] cooperator, center, and M. Swann, on the left, and J. W. Lodwick on the right are Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technicians. Class III, Soil Unit 2HL. TX-48-836.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Brock, C. G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Clip: Finger painting] captions transcript

[News Clip: Finger painting]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Commerce woman with a talent for finger painting.
Date: December 14, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Clues sought in death of youth] (open access)

[News Script: Clues sought in death of youth]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the investigation into the death of 19-year-old Dallas resident Charles Clinton.
Date: June 22, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner, September 24, 1956] (open access)

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner, September 24, 1956]

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner discussing total losses from the Merchants & Planters Compress & Warehouse Co., fees from The Bertig Company, bales ginned from Plantersville, storage updates from Liberty Press in New Orleans and Blackshear's upcoming departure for a wedding in Greenville, along with information regarding total cotton bale stock.
Date: September 24, 1956
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner, October 2, 1956] (open access)

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner, October 2, 1956]

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Daniel W. Kempner discussing Daniel Kempner's upcoming arrival in New York with an enclosed letter to Kempner's doctor, orders from the CCC to reconcentrate cotton bales, the purchase of more cotton, the hiring of a new employee, the response to a bookkeeping ad, Blackshear's return from a wedding in Greenville with enclosed article and an update to the total stock of cotton bales.
Date: October 2, 1956
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: The Week in Review] (open access)

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the major news stories of the past week, including a gas explosion and fire at a Greenville hotel that killed one man, a San Antonio house fire that killed three children, the surrender of two men in Tarrant County for questioning in the murder of a truck driver during an altercation, a five-year prison term for marijuana posession in San Antonio for country singer T. Texas Tyler, bond posted by Dallas stockbroker Ben Jack Cage in an embezzlement indictment, a derailed train in Fort Worth, and a Fort Worth visit by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson.
Date: December 14, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Indians train at Greenville] captions transcript

[News Clip: Indians train at Greenville]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Oklahoma City Indians baseball team's spring training at Greenville.
Date: March 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hotel fire] (open access)

[News Script: Hotel fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hotel fire in Greenville.
Date: December 12, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Hotel fire] captions transcript

[News Clip: Hotel fire]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a hotel fire in Greenville.
Date: December 12, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library