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[Trading Card: Texas Brown Tarantula]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Fort Leaton State Historic Site, depicting a close-up image of the face of a tarantula. The back of the card contains information about tarantulas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mesquite and Willow

Description: Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
Date: 1957
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
Partner: UNT Press

Mesquite and Willow

Description: Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
Date: 2017
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
Partner: UNT Press

[Photograph of Marfa, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the landscape near Marfa, Texas. In the background, the outskirts of Marfa can be seen, including some buildings and windmills. A river runs close to the buildings, and a bridge and road with several cars on it has been built over the river, continuing out of frame on either side.
Date: unknown
Creator: Duncan, Frank
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Presidio, Texas.

Description: Map shows dimensional relief of mountain ranges for a portion of Presidio county in West Texas; railroads, roads, trails, ranches, landmarks, aircraft landing areas, abandoned mines, ruins, and other notable physical features; molded dimensional relief but no printed depiction of internal mountain ranges in Mexico to the west and south of Presidio. Includes legend and index to adjoining plastic relief maps. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:250,000].
Date: 1964
Creator: United States Army Map Service
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[American and Texas flags]

Description: Photograph of a flagpole, viewed from the ground looking up with an American flag at the top and a Texas state flag below. A cloudy sky is visible above the pole. The image accompanied the conclusion of a written speech, with the caption: "To those who would protest the American life of challenge and accomplishment, I would remind them, our land has never been easy. [...] The land is rich, not only in landscape, but also in the heritage of those who have tried to tame it. This is My Land, My… more
Date: 1969
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Marfa, Texas 1918]

Description: In the foreground of this photograph, four people in cowboy hats sit in the shade of a tree. Behind them is what appears to be an unpaved main street of Marfa, circa 1918, with storefronts, telephone poles, and cars of the time period.
Date: 1918~
Creator: Arnold's Art Studio
Partner: Marfa Public Library

The Brite's of Marfa, Texas

Description: This is a research paper written by Josephine Aguilor for an American History Class at Marfa High School on January 13, 1964. It contains biographical information about the Brite family, describing their home and their charitable acts in Marfa, Texas.
Date: January 13, 1964
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Central and West Texas (1)]

Description: Map of the U.S. Postal Service mail stations and routes in parts of west Texas, showing a mail route that passes through Fort Concho, Fort Stockton, and Fort Davis as well as a mail line from Fort McKavett to Ben Ficklin, ending in Fort Concho. The map also includes railroads, bodies of water, major towns and forts, and county lines.
Date: 1880?
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of the State of Texas (3).

Description: Cadastral map of West Texas and northern Mexico, showing property lines and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, railroads, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Includes list of land departments in lower-left corner. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,013,760] (16 miles to the inch).
Date: 1879
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Five Fords in Marfa, Texas

Description: Photograph of five Ford cars in Marfa, Texas. They are parked outside of a serviced and repaired shop next to the Marfa Manufacturing Company. This photo was included in a research paper by David Newton for an American History class at Marfa High School in 1971.
Date: unknown
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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