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[News Script: Boys launch canoe trip down Brazos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about twelve Fort Worth boys going on a canoe trip down the Brazos River. The boys are Camp Carter campers and travel with their leader, Buddy Tackett.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rescue]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a search team looking for an African American boy who jumped over the Belknap street bridge railing in Fort Worth.
Date: July 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city council meeting. A contract has been made with the Sabine River Authority to finance construction of a reservoir. Addie Barlow Frazier protests desegregation of city buses.
Date: July 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Texas. Profile San Antonio River.

Description: Map of the Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers and their tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, oil pipelines, average bank lines, bridges, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges. The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: May 1950
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

State of Texas

Description: Map of Texas, showing cities and towns, county lines, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and other bodies of water. Untitled inset map of the Texas Panhandle included in the upper-left corner. Handwritten notes have been made in pencil in the lower-left corner, listing and grouping various creeks, roads, and towns. Scale ca. 1:1,000,000
Date: 1957
Creator: Hassan, A. F.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Texas. Profile Guadalupe River.

Description: Map of the Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers and their tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, oil pipelines, average bank lines, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges. The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: May 1950
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas

Description: Map of Texas, showing cities and towns, county seats, state parks and forests, pioneer roads and trails, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Note in the lower-left corner by Bascom Giles, Commissioner of the General Land Office in the 1950s. Handwritten note in pencil: "Property of N. H. Kincaid." Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640] (24 miles to the inch).
Date: 1951
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[News Script: New blast fails to dislodge log jam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a jam of logs created in the Trinity River near Dallas after several days of heavy rain. City officials attempt to dislodge the jam with dynamite and a winch truck, but neither approach succeeds at clearing the obstruction.
Date: May 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mosquitos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Trinity River in Fort Worth being sprayed for mosquitoes.
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Drownings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four young men drowning in North Texas while swimming, two in Grapevine Lake, one in Lake Dallas, and one in the Brazos River.
Date: May 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ship Passing Under Bridge]

Description: Aerial photograph of a ship that has just passed under a large bridge, identified as Rainbow Bridge. The ship is in the right center of the photograph and extends from the bridge to the edge of the frame. The bridge is on the left side of the photograph and a truck and car are visible driving over it. A stamp on the back of the photograph identifies the photograph as J. C. Watkins, and handwriting dates it from September 22, 1954.
Date: September 22, 1954
Creator: Watkins, J. C.
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Aerial View of Drawbridge]

Description: Aerial photograph of Pleasure Pier Drawbridge. A large ship has just passed through the bridge and it is still drawn. There are cars waiting for the ship to pass, and the town can be seen on the other side of the river. A stamp on the back of the photograph identifies the photographer as J. C. Watkins.
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Watkins, J. C.
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[View of Ship Passing Through Drawbridge]

Description: Photograph of a town on the edge of a river with a ship passing through a bridge, identified as Pleasure Pier drawbridge. Cars are waiting for the ship to pass on either side of the bridge. There is what appears to be a factory in the distance with multiple smokestacks. A stamp on the back of the photograph identifies the photographer as J. C. Watkins.
Date: November 19, 1952
Creator: Watkins, J. C.
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of Aerial View of Rainbow Bridge, 1957]

Description: Photograph with aerial view of the Rainbow Bridge spanning the Neches River near Port Arthur, Texas. Shadows of several clouds dot the landscape. A ship is passing underneath the bridge. Several canals branch off from the river on its way to Sabine Lake, which encompasses much of the background. The other side of the photo has a handwritten note saying that this was a gift of A. W. Catanach, 1992.
Date: August 2, 1957
Creator: Watkins Studio
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast
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