1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Denton County, Index

Index map for Denton County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:87,409.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Denton County, Index

Index map for Denton County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:87,409.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2007 Economic Census Map: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Combined Statistical Area

Map showing the area of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Combined Statistical Area for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data during the 2007 economic census.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2007 Economic Census Map: Denton County, Texas - Economic Places

Map for Denton County, Texas showing the boundaries of designated areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data during the 2002 and 2007 economic censuses.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2010 Census County Block Map: Denton County, Index

Index map for Denton County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:76,763.
Date: 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convair Supervisory Newsletter, Number 151, June 30, 1954 (open access)

Convair Supervisory Newsletter, Number 151, June 30, 1954

Weekly newsletter written for supervisors working at the Convair Division in Fort Worth containing news about events and activities, workplace reminders, and other relevant information.
Date: June 30, 1954
Creator: Esenwein, August C.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 2 - Christmas Holidays] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 2 - Christmas Holidays]

This home movie documents the Hall and Hennen families celebrating the Christmas holiday. The film begins with a Hall family Christmas gathering in Millsap. Family members socialize and pose for the camera in a front yard. Young boys wear cowboy outfits and shoot toy guns at the camera. Visible in the footage are advertisements for Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, and a Clark Service & Grocery (00:00-01:34). Also included is footage of Seventh Street in Forth Worth shot from a moving car (01:34-01:48) and a Hennen family Christmas gathering in Sherman (01:48-03:48).
Date: 1951
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
How Healthy is the Upper Trinity River?: Biological and Water Quality Perspectives (open access)

How Healthy is the Upper Trinity River?: Biological and Water Quality Perspectives

This conference report contains discussions and papers from a symposium hosted at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas, examining the ecological health of the Upper Trinity River, and the impacts of various human activity, such as agriculture, urbanization, and waste management. The papers cover the effect of water quality on urban rivers, long-term water quality trends in the Trinity River, solutions that may improve water quality in the river, as well as biological, agricultural and waste-water issues.
Date: 1990
Creator: Jensen, Ric
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Mrs. Ella W. Mills to Milton Parks, June 2 1888] (open access)

[Letter from Mrs. Ella W. Mills to Milton Parks, June 2 1888]

Letter from Ella W. Mills to Milton Parks. The letter is dated June 2, 1888.
Date: June 2, 1888
Creator: Mills, Ella W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive. (open access)

Locomotive.

Patent for an improved locomotive or traction-engine, with a series of water-shells, each containing "a series of fire-flues, a feeding-water heater, a pipe discharging steam" (lines 118-121), and a double-action plunger-pump.
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Rabies II] captions transcript

[News Clip: Rabies II]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: unknown
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: The week in review] captions transcript

[News Clip: The week in review]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story covering the major news stories of the past week, including ongoing flooding across Tarrant, Collin, and Grayson Counties, the shooting death of a Fort Worth plumbing executive after a man caught him with his wife, and an explosion during a fire at a house in Fort Worth that was later explained as unrelated to the fire and actually caused by a jet overhead breaking the sound barrier.
Date: June 1, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: September 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Wx Rap] captions transcript

[News Clip: Wx Rap]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 16, 1989, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Activities of the Week] (open access)

[News Script: Activities of the Week]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about the Colonial National Invitation Golf Tournament held in Fort Worth where thirty-five golfers compete for fifteen thousand in prize money. The champion, Slammin' Sammy Snead took home the prize money. Austin College in Sherman marked its 100th commencement with dedication ceremonies which featured the appearance of Speaker of the House Representatitve, Sam Rayburn.
Date: May 17, 1950, 7:10 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Board inspects air academy site] (open access)

[News Script: Board inspects air academy site]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Air Force Academy selection board touring proposed sites of a new Air Force Academy in Texas.
Date: April 11, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fiddlers three] (open access)

[News Script: Fiddlers three]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dick Barrett of Pottsboro who became the fiddlers of the United States.
Date: June 11, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fink] (open access)

[News Script: Fink]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about the air pollution in Fink, Texas, and also their National week, the Fink Week.
Date: June 29, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Murder suicide] (open access)

[News Script: Murder suicide]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 13, 1970, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Murder Trial - Death Penalty] (open access)

[News Script: Murder Trial - Death Penalty]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 1, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: National bank] (open access)

[News Script: National bank]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the first national bank at Bells which was robbed of a substantial sum of money by a gun bearing trio.
Date: July 19, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sherman shootings] (open access)

[News Script: Sherman shootings]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 24, 1969, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shootings] (open access)

[News Script: Shootings]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 23, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Stevens investigations/ Rice fire] (open access)

[News Script: Stevens investigations/ Rice fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 6, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library