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[Lake Mineral Wells, 02 of 04,]
Date: March 1976
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Description: The dam of Lake Mineral Wells during floodstage, March 1976. A large area of Palo Pinto-Parker counties received heavy rains (up to 7.2 inches in places) during a three day period. The road directly below the dam was under water and the effect of water flowing over the road is barely visible. Heavy damage was also reported over a substantial part of the City of Mineral Wells as a result of the downpour.
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[Lake Mineral Wells, 04 of 04, Spillway]
Date: March 1976
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Description: The lower end of the spillway from Lake Mineral Wells after the flood in March 1976. The dam is barely visible in the middle of the picture at the upper end of the spillway. The road directly below the dam was under water and is not visible in other pictures of this flood. It suffered such severe damage that it had to be rebuilt.
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"Lloyd's Military Maps, Showing the Principal Places of Interest, compiled from official data by Egbert L. Viele and Charles Haskins, Military and Civil Engineers. Published under the auspices of the American Geographical and Statistical Society."
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Creator: Viele, Egbert L.
Description: Lloyd's Military Maps, Showing the Principal Places of Interest, compiled from official data by Egbert L. Viele and Charles Haskins, Military and Civil Engineers. Published under the auspices of the American Geographical and Statistical Society.
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A gazetteer of Texas
Date: 1902
Creator: Gannett, Henry
Description: This book is about the geography of Texas. The geographical information in the book includes: topography and drainage, climate, forests, exploration, settlement, population, industries, and land surveys.
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A gazetteer of Texas, by Henry Gannett.
Date: 1904
Creator: Gannett, Henry
Description: Geological and geographic survey and analysis of Texas at the onset of the 20th century. Also includes an index of place names in Texas.
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A map of Mexico and the Republic of Texas / drawn & engraved to accompany The history of Mexico & Texas by J.M. Niles & L.T. Pease ; T. Twitchel, sc.
Date: 1838
Creator: Niles, John M.
Description: Relief shown by hachures. From: History of South America and Mexico / by John M. Niles. 1839. v.2.
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A new & accurate map of Mexico or New Spain together with California, New Mexico &c. / drawn from the best modern maps & charts & regulated by astronl. observns. by Eman: Bowen.
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Creator: Bowen, Emanuel
Description: Map of New Spain, 1752.
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A new map of Central America / by J.L. Hazzard ; engrd. by Th. Leonhardt.
Date: 1856
Creator: Hazzard, J. L.
Description: Prime meridian: Greenwich. Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Map of the communication by railroad across the Isthmus of Darien: from Aspinwall to Panama -- The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: showing the proposed route from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. From an edition of S.A. Mitchell's A new universal atlas. no. 40. Hand colored. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries.
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A new map of Texas.
Date: 1841
Creator: Day
Description: "Boundaries of Texas. Political, Conventional, and Natural." Relief shown pictorially.
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A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Embracing the periods of missions, colonization, the revolution the republic, and the state; also, a topographical description of the country ... together with its Indian tribes and their wars, and biographical sketches of hundreds of its leading historical characters. Also, a list of the countries, with historical and topical notes, and descriptions of the public institutions of the state.
Date: 1879
Creator: Thrall, Homer S.
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