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[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of international visitors stopping in Fort Worth as part of their tour of America and several other countries to look at their electric power industries.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-Amerika

Description: This map shows the southwestern portion of the United States and northern portion of Mexico. U.S. states are outlined in color and numbered (corresponding to an index of states and territories in the lower left corner). Additionally, cities, bodies of water, the names and locations of some Native American Indian tribes, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures).
Date: unknown
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Santa Fé to San Diego: July 24, to December 3, 1849

Description: Topographic map of John Wesley Powell's route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to San Diego, California, traced in red. Bodies of water, historic or notable sites, and geographic features are also marked, with relief shown in hachures. There is an inset map in the upper-left corner, marking Powell's route on a map of the United States.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces]

Description: Copy of two pages from the Congressional Record containing a speech by Texas Representative Olin Teague regarding pending bills that would grant civilian veterans benefits as well as the history of Avenger Field. The pages include other text, including partial text before the speech discussing a memorial dance for Jess Nevarez, his service in the military, his involvement with his community and church and supplemental statements to Teague's speech after his statements.
Date: April 6, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women pilots flew for their country]

Description: Page 2: Newspaper clipping of an article about a reunion of the WASPin Tucson, Arizona, and delving into WASP Eleanor "Mickey" Brown's experience as a female pilot. The article includes photos of Eleanor Brown, the author Jim Bishop, and a photo of Eleanor Brown perched on the wing of a plane. There are other articles on the back of the clipping, including two about car crashes.
Date: October 13, 2002
Creator: Bishop, Jim
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Correspondence from Lucile Wise to Eleanor Brown]

Description: Correspondence from Lucile Wise to Eleanor Brown, consisting of a brief letter from Wise to Brown and two enclosures. The first enclosure is a letter from Michael D. Achey with information on how groups and individuals can support the National Advisory Committee (NAC) meeting in May 2005. The second enclosure is a letter from Mary McCleary Posner about the 17th Annual Memorial Day Weekend Salute to Veterans Celebration to be held from May 27-30, 2005.
Date: 2004-12-09/2005-01-12
Creator: Wise, Lucile
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Plunging into her 90s]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about a WASP member, Frances L. Cisternino, who went skydiving for her 90th birthday, briefly describing her experience as service pilot in WWII. The article includes several photos of Cisternino preparing for and floating down from her sky-dive. The article is continued on the back of the clipping, with a photograph of the onlookers at the event, along with some obituaries and part of another article.
Date: December 10, 2002
Creator: Copenhaver, Larry
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women pilots flew for their country]

Description: Newspaper clippings of an article about a reunion in of the WASP group in Tucson, Arizona, and delving into WASP Eleanor "Mickey" Brown's experience as a female pilot. The article also discusses the lack of recognition for WASP by the military. The article includes photos of Eleanor Brown, the author Jim Bishop, and a photo of Eleanor Brown perched on the wing of a plane. There are other articles on the back of the two clippings, including two about car crashes and several obituaries.
Date: October 13, 2002
Creator: Bishop, Jim
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[News Script: TCU baseball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Texas Christian University's baseball team going to Tucson, Arizona to play the University of Arizona in a three game series, the winner of which would qualify for the NCAA tournament in Omaha, Nebraska
Date: May 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

A Frontier Doctor

Description: This autobiographical account of Dr. Henry Franklin Hoyt chronicles his family's history, his upbringing on a small farm in Minnesota, his work as a surgeon in New Mexico, Chicago, California, Texas and the Philippines, along with many other miscellaneous adventures.
Date: 1929
Creator: Hoyt, Henry Franklin
Partner: University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries

Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion

Description: This book "is a compendium of America's Indian Wars and the mountain men, soldiers, cowboys and pioneers who took part in them" (dust-jacket). It includes information about all the major American Indian battles, the lives of notable men who fought in the battles, and the combat techniques employed. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1991
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
Partner: Panola College

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 3]

Description: Map shows state and territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities and towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: "Schildkroten In." [Galapagos Islands]. Includes number key and table of statistics. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Kort til Balduin Möllhausen's Rejse fra Mississippi til Sydhavets Kyster i Aarene 1853 1854.

Description: Map shows eastern route of Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen across the southwestern United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast during 1853 and 1854. Areas of Native American habitation, military posts, and settlements are noted. Insets: [Map of the mid-western states] and "Profil fra Ft. Smith til Sydhavet" [More of Ft. Smith to the Southern Ocean]. Scale [1:6,015,000].
Date: 1858
Creator: Th. Berg's lith. Inst.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of the western United States]

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century cities, military posts, and railroads in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:7,500,000].
Date: 1889
Creator: Petermann, A. (August), 1822-1878
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Colton's Mexico.

Description: Map shows cities and towns, Mexican states; New Mexico north of Arizona; proposed railroad and canal across Isthmus of Tehauntepec. Includes notes. Inset: "Territory and Isthmus of Tehuantepec." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:8,400,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

United States (S.W. Central).

Description: Map shows cities, towns, and geography of the southwest United States during the early twentieth century. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1: 6,336,000] and [ca. 1:8,448,000].
Date: 1912?
Creator: W. and A. K. Johnston, Limited
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Spanish Dominions in North America.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century cities, towns, ports, and geography of Spanish territory in North America. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:18,000,000]. Map is detached from A New and Elegant General Atlas by Arrowsmith and Lewis [1805].
Date: 1805
Creator: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the lower Mississippi, Gulf and frontier Pacific railroad and its proposed connections, from Galveston, New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis via El Paso, across the territories to the California coast cities.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century rail routes and proposed rail routes across the Gulf Coast and Southwestern United States. Includes "Table of Distances." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1880?
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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