This blog post was prepared by Spencer Houghton, the National Digital Newspaper Program-Texas graduate student assistant. In 1898, T. C. Nye sold his cattle ranch in the humid town of Cotulla, Texas, and bought an irrigated vineyard on the north side of Laredo in Webb County. Despite having a viticultural history reaching back to the… Read more »
As 2025 ends, we in the Digital Newspaper Unit thought it would be fun to look back at how newspapers celebrated the end of the year over time. Many Texas newspapers purchased mass-produced prints, some developed through chromolithography, to showcase elaborate front pages for Christmas or New Year’s issues in the early 1900s. The Newspaper… Read more »
Written by Sophie Walker, a student assistant in the UNT Libraries’ Digital Projects Lab and a graduate student in the UNT College of Information majoring in Library Science. Denton, A. N.; Bennett, T. J. & Smith, Matthew M. The Texas Medical News, Volume 7, Number 5, March 1898, periodical, March 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1813977/; Texas… Read more »
In the last week and a half, The Portal to Texas History was honored to sponsor and have an exhibitor’s booth at the Texas Council for the Social Studies’ Annual Conference and the Texas General Land Office’s Save Texas History Symposium. Jake Mangum was happy to a represent the Portal at the Texas Council for… Read more »
The Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation has awarded three Texas public libraries with grant awards totaling $76,340.00 to digitize their community newspapers. The award recipients are: The La Porte Public Library to digitize the La Porte Chronicle The Pilot Point Public Library to digitize the Pilot Point Post-Signal The Crowley Public Library, to digitize… Read more »
