Posts By: Ana Krahmer

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 »

Happy 4th of July, from The Portal to Texas History!

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Icebox cake

This Fourth of July post comes to you from Ricardo Carter, one of the Digital  Newspaper Unit’s newest student assistants! Ricardo is a fifth-year student at the University of North Texas, majoring in Professional and Technical Communication with a minor in Public Relations. Ricardo will eventually pursue a career in public relations, either with a… Read more »

TexTreasures 2024-2025 Grants Awarded

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The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), in collaboration with the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Library Services Technology Act funds, offers an annual competitive grants program to libraries across Texas.  This month, TSLAC has announced multiple newspaper digitization grant awards recipients, whose materials will be added to The Portal to Texas History… Read more »