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[News Script: Texoma storm]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a massive thunderstorm over Lake Texoma on the border of Texas and Oklahoma.
Date: August 6, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: Preston Road/Shawnee Trail]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Preston Road/Shawnee Trail in Pottsboro, Texas. Text: In 1840, authorized by an 1838 act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas, Col. W.G. Cooke and the Texas First Infantry Regiment laid out a military road from Austin through what became Dallas to the Holland Coffee Trading Post on Red River (later covered by Lake Texoma). Coffee developed the town of Preston near the trading post, and Cooke's military route became known as Preston Ro… more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Partner: Private Collection of Carolyn West

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: First Texas Interurban]

Description: Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for First Texas Interurban in Grayson County, Texas. Text: Electric railways (trolleys) provided convenient travel between many Texas cities for more than forty years. The first interurban line was established in Grayson County, connecting the cities of Sherman and Denison. Founded in 1900 by Fred Fitch and John P. Crerar, the Denison and Sherman Railway began operations on May 1, 1901, with a single 10.5-mile track. The company built a … more
Date: 2011-12/2012-03
Creator: West, Carolyn Effie
Partner: Private Collection of Carolyn West
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[News Clip: Texoma]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 8, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: The week in review]

Description: 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
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ike's house]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 7, 1982
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Country club]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the formal opening of the Tanglewood-on-the-Lake, a plush resort country club next to Lake Texoma.
Date: May 1, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sherman

Description: 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.50 -97.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sherman

Description: 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.)
Location: 33.50 -97.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sherman

Description: 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: 1964
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 33.50 -97.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Report on Proposed McKinney - Bonham - Paris Interurban: Statistics and Photographs

Description: Book discussing statistics for the finances and infrastructure of McKinney, Bonham, and Paris, Texas and the surrounding areas. There is a map of Dallas and the surrounding areas and several photographs of the various cities discussed throughout the report. The statistics include city taxes, crop reports, public buildings, and local industries.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Fred A.
Partner: Interurban Railway Museum
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