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Posted April 5th, 2017 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

April 5, 2017

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Texas & Pacific Railway Collection
The Texas and Pacific Railroad Collection is comprised of historic photographs of Abilene, clippings from the WWII era “Camp Barkeley News”, and archives (including photographs, maps, timetables, and correspondence) from privately donated Texas and Pacific Railway archives… (more).

Denton Municipal CollectionFeatures documents, newsletters, clippings, and photographs from the early 1900s to present day, depicting people, places, and activities about the various Departments of the City of Denton. (more)

Evelyn Fiedler Streng Slide CollectionProfessor Evelyn Streng, a native Texan and the daughter of a pioneer Fredericksburg family, was an educator in the state of Texas for over 40 years. When she passed away in 2014 she left a legacy in the collections of the Fiedler Memorial Museum and… (more).

from the UNT Digital Library

[Bell employees working on parts for the XH-40]

This is a photograph of three Bell Helicopter employees working on parts for the XH-40 helicopter. This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Bell Helicopter Records and was provided by UNT Libraries Special Collections to Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this photograph can be viewed here.

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Posted March 28th, 2017 by William Hicks & filed under General.

On March 28, we updated the Portal with a number of incremental changes and improvements based on the feedback of our users and observations of how the site was both performing and being used. Many of the changes are cosmetic, but we’ve introduced a couple of requested features worth noting. Here’s what we did and why:

Posted March 22nd, 2017 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

March 22, 2017

What’s new?

Chicken Baseball at the State Fair of Texas Was a Thing – D Magazine

“I’m not entirely sure how I ended up down the chicken baseball rabbit hole. I was on UNT’s Portal to Texas History, a cool site with more than 800,000 rare and historical items that have been digitized, looking up something Dallas-related. Somehow my search yielded the following result: a news script from WBAP-TV in Fort Worth for an “educated chicken baseball game” that was being unveiled at the State Fair of Texas in 1953. Here is how the “game” was described:…” (more).

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The Portal to Texas History is currently recruiting participants from the Dallas / Fort Worth area for a usability study to examine the new design interface. Your participation in this study will help to improve access to digital primary source objects by giving us information about navigation and function of the Portal. Your participation will benefit all researchers who utilize this website. This will require approximately 30 minutes of your time and a visit to Willis Library at the University of North Texas.

If you are interested in participating, please email Dianne Jansing. Your input is greatly valued!

From the Web

Three Questions with Linzee Kull McCray
1. How important are Unique Collections your teaching, learning or research?

The Portal enabled me to search by subject and gave me a window into rural life in Texas—the number of small-town newspapers was … (more).

New to the Portal

Portrait of Dr. May Owen
Dr. May Owen was a medical pioneer in Texas. She is most well known for discovering that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infections and scarring in patients. She is also a prominent figure, as the first female president of the Texas Society of Pathologists, the Tarrant County Medical Society, and the Texas Medical Association. You can find more about her and her contributions in the Texas Medical Association collection in the Portal!

Cat’s Claw (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 1, 1962Bi-weekly student newspaper from Archer City High School in Archer City, Texas that includes news and information of interest to students along with advertising. Plenty of other records from Archer County, Texas can be found in the Archer County Newspaper Collection in the Portal!

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from the UNT Digital Library

ReSource

The ReSource collection contains magazines covering research, scholarship, and the arts at the University of North Texas. Included are issues of ReSource, published from 1984-2004, and UNT Research, published from 2006–. Highlights include features, news briefs, alumni spotlight, faculty books and portraits. (more)

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Posted March 8th, 2017 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

March 8, 2017

Want to help The Portal to Texas History out? Interested in giving a bit of your time to meet with some researchers?

The Portal to Texas History is currently recruiting participants from the Dallas / Fort Worth area for a usability study to examine the new design interface. Your participation in this study will help to improve access to digital primary source objects by giving us information about navigation and function of the Portal. Your participation will benefit all researchers who utilize this website. This will require approximately 30 minutes of your time and a visit to Willis Library at the University of North Texas.

If you are interested in participating, please email Dianne Jansing. Your input is greatly valued!

recently added Collections …

Texas Gulf Coast Register/South Texas Catholic Newspapers
Bishop Thomas J. Drury established the Texas Gulf Coast Register, predecessor to the South Texas Catholic, in May 1966 as the official organ for the Diocese of Corpus Christi, which at that time covered the area south of a line running from Corpus Christi to Laredo. The newspaper’s name was changed to the Texas Gulf Coast Catholic in 1970 and eventually… (more).

Hopkins County Area Newspapers
The Hopkins County Area Newspaper Collection serves as the digital repository for The Cumby Rustler, The Daily News Telegram, Hopkins County Echo, and The Sulphur Springs Gazette. The Hopkins County Genealogical Society holds the physical editions for the majority of the… (more).

Bell Helicopter RecordsThe Bell Helicopter Records Collection contains a selection of images from a much larger collection of Bell Helicopter materials available in tangible form in the UNT Libraries’ Special Collections. The Bell Helicopter Records document seventy-one years of Bell Helicopter Textron’s corporate history. The collection includes manuscript materials such as corporate memos… (more)

From the web

Three Questions with Tom Phillips
1. How important is the Portal in your teaching, learning or research?

Very: I am researching the late 1881 court martial of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper held at Fort Davis, Texas. He was the first African American graduate of West Point (1877) and… (more).

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You know those nifty background images we use at the top of the Portal to Texas History? Now’s your chance to help us select the next round of banners that we use. Take the survey!

from the UNT Digital Library

Office of Technology Assessment

The Office of Technology Assessment Collection includes quarterly and annual reports, catalogs, and internal OTA documents such as orientation materials. The items in this collection were produced between 1979 and 1998. For the many interesting topical publications produced by OTA, please see the OTA Legacy collection available via the CyberCemetery… (more).

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Posted February 23rd, 2017 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

February 23, 2017

recently added Collections …

Bell Helicopter RecordsThe Bell Helicopter Records Collection contains a selection of images from a much larger collection of Bell Helicopter materials available in tangible form in the UNT Libraries’ Special Collections. (more)

Hopkins County Area Newspapers
The Hopkins County Area Newspaper Collection serves as the digital repository for The Cumby Rustler, The Daily News Telegram, Hopkins County Echo, and The Sulphur Springs Gazette. The Hopkins County Genealogical Society holds the physical editions for the majority of the… (more).

McMurry University Oral Histories
The McMurry Oral History Collection consists of video interviews of alumni and professors of McMurry University about their experiences during the time they were associated with the university. These oral history videos are a part of a larger collection of oral histories, many of them in audio format… (more).

From the web

My Grandmother, The Sheriff –
Gutsy Broad
“My maternal grandmother, Mantie Merritt McReynolds, was sheriff of Gaines County in far West Texas in the 1950s. I’ve loved telling the story to anyone who’d listen: Gutsy woman alert! My grandmother was a midcentury woman sheriff! It’s a story that has given me a lot of pride. But one detail has also caused…” (more).

from the UNT Digital Library

UNT Research Symposium on African Studies

This collection contains papers and presentations from the symposium, “Thinking and Re-Thinking Africa,” held April 11, 2015, in Denton, Texas. Organized by the UNT Africa Task Force and supported by UNT-International, this symposium aims to bring together students and faculty from all disciplines to present their research, contribute to dialog, and… (more).

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