Beyond the Bytes, December 8, 2016

December 8th, 2016   recently added Collections … Henry R. Clay, Jr. PapersHenry R. Clay, Jr. is one of the lesser known pilots from WWI, despite his outstanding service. Originally from Missouri, his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas while he started law school at The University of Texas at Austin before signing up for the United States Army Air Service in 1917. (more)   Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection The Texas Borderlands Collection spans 1887 to 1923, with some issues moving into the 1940s, and they speak for the ancestors of the current inhabitants of Texas, who come from multiple cultures. Early settlers of what was then a frontier experimented with… (more)   Dennis Vercher Collection Dennis Vercher was a prominent journalist and community activist in Dallas, Texas. Vercher served as the senior editor of The Dallas Voice from 1986 – 2006, during which time he reported on a multitude of issues impacting the LGBT community during the AIDS crisis. (more)   From the web A Glimpse of Texas History in 23 Photos – Texas MonthlyFor 25 years, Byrd M. Williams IV, a photographer from Dallas, lugged around his family’s legacy. He moved hundreds of boxes full of some 350,000 photos and negatives—snapshots taken by his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather—to more than a dozen garages, attics and bedrooms, sometimes sleeping just feet from combustible nitrate film. “Nothing ever exploded,” he says, “but I did smell that smell they warned me about.” Relief came two years ago when the University of North Texas Libraries acquired the collection. The university then worked with UNT Press to publish Proof: Photographs From Four Generations of a Texas Family. The book, released this month, not only reveals… (more).   from the UNT Digital Library Facebook Twitter website YouTube Joseph Britton Freshwater Mussel Collection Joseph Britton’s career began as the Assistant Director of Exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. where his early studies were of the marine bivalve family Lucinidae. Dr. Britton returned to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas in the early 1970s, where he surveyed Texas waters for native mussels and… (more)   Our mailing address is:  1155 Union Circle #305190 Denton, TX 76203-5017 unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences