November 13, 2015

Featured Collections …

Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes
The Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes includes family photographs, as well as a fascinating array of vintage postcards covering every holiday and locations around Texas and beyond…more

Star of the Republic Museum
The Star of the Republic Museum is located in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, and its mission is to collect and preserve material culture of the Texas Republic. The Star of the Republic Museum’s digital collections include books, letters, manuscripts, portraits, maps, photographs, and an impressive variety of artifacts that includes furniture, clothing, buttons, farm implements, china, trade tokens, arrowheads,and looms…more

Log Cabin Village

The Log Cabin Village collections feature 19th century photographs of the Tompkins, Parks, Howard, and Foster families, including tintypes and daguerreotypes. Two letter collections include correspondence between the Parks and Howard families dating from 1840 to 1940. Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort Worth’s Historic Treasures is the name of this collection. The contributing partners include the UNT Libraries, Fort Worth Public Library, Texas Christian University, the Amon Carter Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington, Beth-El Congregation Archives, Tarrant County College NE, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum, Lockheed Martin Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church, Dallas Public Library, University of Houston, and the Cowtown Coliseum…more

From the web…

Samford geneolgy institute to move to Georgia.

Samford University in Birmingham has announced that the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research, known by some as the Samford Institute, will relocate in 2017 to the University of Georgia campus in Athens.The Georgia Genealogical Society was chosen to be the organization to continue the seminar’s high standards of excellence in genealogical education. In July 2017, the IGHR will be held in Athens at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, with classes linked to the various libraries and resources at UGA…more

from the UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fill it! : help harvest war crops.

Serving as both a federal and a state depository library, the UNT Libraries Government Documents Department maintains a collection of over 1 million items in a variety of formats including print, microform, audiovisual, maps, posters, musical scores, LPs, CD-ROMs, and Web documents. The department is a member of the FDLP Content Partnerships Program and an Affiliated Archive of the National Archives…more