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

February 8, 2017

2017 Library Research Fellowships – Apply Now
The University of North Texas Libraries invite applications for the 2017 Research Fellowships in UNT Special Collections and The Portal to Texas History. Research in our collections is relevant to studies in a variety of disciplines including… (more).

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Dr. Walter M. Woodward Texas History CollectionThese historic books, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera relate to two prominent Coleman families, the Woodwards and McClellans. Originally collected and organized by Dr. Walter McClellan, they include a receipt signed by Stephen F. Austin, two letters dating to the 1830s dealing with… (more).

Art Forum Scrapbooks
These scrapbooks detail art events in Abilene focusing on the activities of the Art Unit of the Abilene Women’s Forum, from its inception in 1922 through the following decades…. (more).

Jesse P. Sewell Photograph Collection
This photo collection is believed to have started with Jesse P. Sewell’s private photo collection. Many of the photos deal with the early history of Abilene Christian College, including photos of Jesse P. Sewell, faculty, students, sports, and facilities. It appears that as other photos were donated to the school over the years, they were added to this collection, including some gathered for the college yearbook… (more).

From the web

UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections 2016 in Review: Items
“I’m quite impressed with the amount of content that we added in 2016. Adding 295,077 to the Digital Collections brought us to 1,751,015 items and 26,326,187 files (pages) of content in the systems. I’m looking forward to 2017 and what it has in store for us. At the rate we added content in 2016 I have a strong feeling that we will be passing the 2 million item mark…” (more).

from the UNT Digital Library

End of Term Publications

The End of Term (EOT) Publications collection consists of reports, presentations, and documents collected during one of the End of Term Presidential Web Archive projects either in 2008, 2012, or 2016. Items were either explicitly nominated for inclusion in the EOT archive or have been extracted from the EOT Archive for inclusion in this collection.

For more information about the End of Term Web Archive see the homepage at http://eotarchive.cdlib.org … (more).

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Posted January 1st, 2017 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

January 11th, 2017

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Aubrey Area PhotographsThese items come from the private collection of Bouncer Goin. He, his mother, and grandmother collected local history materials from their hometown of Aubrey, Texas. They include a 1918 Aubrey High School Yearbook; family photos; and images of local churches, businesses, and the tornado of April 1918. (more)

Heritage Magazine Collection
Heritage Magazine documents the history and culture of Texas. It contains articles related to preservation and restoration of historical sites in Texas as well as museums and collections in the state… (more)

Charles and Catherine Schulze Collection
The images in this collection consist mainly of photos of a Rock Island Railroad survey crew that traveled through Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas during 1902. In the fall of 1902, while surveying a ten-mile stretch of land between… (more)

From the web

Three Questions with Liz Carmack
1. How important are Unique Collections in your teaching, learning or research?

During the early phase of writing my book, Rodeo Austin: Blue Ribbons, Buckin’ Broncs and Big Dreams, the Portal was one of the first places I turned as I began researching… (more).

Lone Star Adventure: Log Cabin Village Fort Worth – Fox 4

“This week’s Lone Star Adventure takes us to a Living History Museum that is recreating pioneer life. And recently made national news as part of a project that puts Texas history at the world’s fingertips. With the discovery of a little known picture of Alamo hero Davy Crockett.” (more)

from the UNT Digital Library

Women With Words

The Women With Words collection features short biographies and oral histories of female journalists in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. Students in the UNT Mayborn School of Journalism conducted the interviews and wrote summary articles as part of a qualitative research class…. (more)

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Posted December 8th, 2016 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

December 8th, 2016

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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

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)

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Posted December 7th, 2016 by Dianne Jansing & filed under Research Fellowships.

The University of North Texas Libraries invite applications for the 2017 Research Fellowships in UNT Special Collections and The Portal to Texas History. Research in our collections is relevant to studies in a variety of disciplines including history, journalism, political science, geography, fine art, art history, film making, photography, and American studies. We encourage applicants to think creatively about new uses for special collections and digital collections.

The Special Collections Fellows will be required to conduct research in residence at UNT for a minimum of four days and a maximum of three months to receive the award. A total of $4,000 in funding will be awarded to two or more fellowship applicants.

The Portal Fellows will receive a stipend to do research with the Portal. Up to $1,000 in funding will be awarded to two or more fellowship applicants.

Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate the greatest potential for publication and the best use of our UNT Special Collections or The Portal to Texas History.

Applications are due by February 15, 2017. Recipients will be notified by April 1, 2017. For more information on the fellowships and application process, please visit the University of North Texas Libraries Research Fellowships – Special Collections and University of North Texas Libraries Research Fellowships – The Portal to Texas History.

Posted November 30th, 2016 by Dreanna Belden & filed under General.

November 30th, 2016

recently added Collections …

The Frank Caldwell CollectionThe Caldwell collection contains hundreds of photographs documenting various parts of Texas from about the 1880s through the 1930s. Frank Caldwell (1883-1962), a lifelong resident of Austin, worked as a traveling salesman, but his passion was… (more).

Mildred Schaeffer Zichner Collection
The Mildred Schaeffer Zichner Collection contains a selection of images from a much larger collection of Zichner materials available in tangible form in the UNT Libraries’ Special Collections. (more)

George Everill Pierce Photograph Collection
The George Everill Pierce Photograph collection consists of photographs, taken between 1933 and 1942, which depict the work, play, and daily life of a young aviator during the early heyday of Texas military aviation…. (more).

From the web

Three Questions with Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Map Curator2. How have Unique Collections changed the way you approach your research, teaching or learning?

The Portal has helped me to locate items I would not otherwise have had access to and has spawned new interests, giving me topics to pursue both personally and professionally. Having access to the scanned maps aids my work at the GLO – researching the items in our collection, gathering information for map collectors whose maps we have digitized, and helping me answer questions for our customers. The Portal is a source that I use so often… (more).

from the UNT Digital Library

[College of Visual Arts + Design Archival Project]

Artworks, art exhibitions, and art-related events created by College of Visual Arts + Design students, faculty, staff, and alumni are digitally documented here and saved for future generations’ research and reference. (more)

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