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"Imaging Columbus" A Christopher Columbus Iconography

Description: Video recording of a slideshow presentation by Samuel J. Marino that was directed and included photographs from Silas S. Stamper. It includes visuals of portraits, monuments, statues, busts, and books that depict Christopher Columbus. It was overlaid with music from the Italian Symposium of Texas and narration explaining who the artists, and writers were along with a history of Columbus.
Date: 1987~
Duration: 18 minutes 01 second
Creator: Marino, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Intercontinental Football League presents Touchdown in Europe 1976

Description: Compilation film of home movies and news coverage of the 1976 Intercontinental Football League's (IFL) European tour of Germany, Austria, and France promoting American football as a leisure activity. Includes footage of football game play, spectators, cheerleaders, and promotional activities. The narration implies that this film was used to promote the IFL and its potential as a revenue source.
Date: 1976
Duration: 17 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Intercontinental Football League
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of Infantry Replacement Band]

Description: Postcard of the Infantry Replacement Band, a large group of soldiers holding instruments, at Camp MacArthur in Waco, Texas. A handwritten note in Italian on the back of the postcard is addressed to "Al caro amico E. Marino" in Kansas City, Missouri and says, "Questa è la band dove appartengo. Sí puo trovarmi? C'ha un punto. Su una spalla." In this note the author identifies himself as the band member with a mark on his shoulder. Fifth sitting man from the left.
Date: October 24, 1918
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Five Soldiers Beside a Sign for Brenner Pass]

Description: Photograph of five uniformed American soldiers standing and crouching to the right of a sign that reads "Passo del Brennero, m 1372." The men are crowded against a short pillar topped a horseshoe-shaped curve that bears the image of a flower. A hill rises from directly behind the men and into the background.
Date: [1944..1945]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

America settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali stati.

Description: Map shows detail of the eastern and western coasts of North America, New Spain, and the West Indies; areas of Native American habitation; French "Loisiana" [Louisiana]; Pacific and Atlantic Oceans connecting via waterways across the northern regions of North America. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1768..1788]
Creator: Zatta, Antonio, fl. 1757-1797
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Messico, ouvero Nuova-Spagna : che contiene il Nuovo Messico, la California con una parte de' paesi adjacenti.

Description: Map shows geography, settlements, and areas of Native American habitation in Mexico, Central America, and the Gulf of Mexico coastal region in late eighteenth century North America. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:13,200,000].
Date: 1785
Creator: Zatta, Antonio, fl. 1757-1797
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Italian American Band]

Description: Photograph of a band identified as "Vita Nuova" of La Societi Italiana. The band members are wearing light colored uniforms and are all holding instruments. A man wearing a suit is standing in the middle of the group. Handwritten text on the top of the photograph says "La Societi Italiana 'Vita Nuova' si Port Arthur, Texas."
Date: 1930~
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

Perini Family Shrine

Description: Copy negative of two pictures of Perini family shrines in Italy. The print over the entrance of the first says "Famiglia Perini," and the second says "Coniugi Perini." Both are concrete structures with a metal gate across the front, cross decorations, and a plaque in the back with writing on it. There are mountains in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Perini Family Headstone

Description: Copy negative of the Perini family headstone in Italy with names and death dates of members of the Perini family, including Cottardo and Maria Domenica, Ciuseppe and Marianna Perini, Giuseppe Perini, and others.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Manifiesto de Liorna.]

Description: Handwritten document in multiple languages which discusses biographical and political information from Agustín de Iturbide's notes.
Date: September 27, 1823
Creator: Iturbide, Agustin de
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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