Telling the Story of the Harris and Eliza Kempner Collection

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Written by Max Rhodes, Lead Metadata Student for the Kempner Collection and a journalism major and history minor. The Digital Projects Lab has recently completed the process of digitizing and describing over 50,000 letters from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Collection. Starting back in March of 2017 and enlisting the help of approximately 30 student… Read more »

New Historical Texas Newspapers Available on Chronicling America

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Laredo, Texas--The Future Great Railroad Centre and Grand Gateway of International Commerce.

As part of UNT Libraries’ seventh round of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant funding awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress has begun uploading more Texas newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the digital repository for historic U. S. newspapers. This seventh round of funding, focused on building content from… Read more »

Early Texas Inventions on The Portal to Texas History

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This post was written by Madelin Villanueva, a UNT Emerald Eagle Scholar and biomedical engineering major, who is completing an internship in Digital Libraries this semester. Did you know that many Texans invented early versions of the same medical devices we use today? Bandage Leah M. Kirwan patented the bandage pictured below on August 9,… Read more »

One-Million Issues in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

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Extra! newsprint

The Texas Digital Newspaper Program on The Portal to Texas History has reached a huge milestone of over one-million newspaper issues openly available!  These one-million newspaper issues comprise 11,256,533 pages, contributed by 226 partners from across Texas, and representing 210 counties.   Multiple partners have helped to build the Texas Digital Newspaper Program Collection, to… Read more »