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[News Clip: Gainsville]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 17, 1989, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Portal to Texas History Newspaper OCR Text Dataset: Gainesville

Description: Dataset of OCR text from The Portal to Texas History and the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. This dataset includes titles from Gainesville Texas from the years 1888 to 1897. Titles included in this dataset include: The Daily Hesperian, and The Gainesville Daily Hesperian. In all there are 2,286 issues comprised of 9,359 pages of text.
Date: November 12, 2015
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Great Hanging

Description: "The Great Hanging" is a documentary film that tells the story of the largest extra-legal mass hanging in U.S. History. This story is told through stage play recital of "October Mourning" written by historian and professor Dr. Pat Ledbetter. Using the stage play as a vehicle, the film showcases cinematic re-enactments based in the events in Gainesville, Texas during October 1862. These events show how a small community became overwhelmed by the fog of war and delved into madness as the Civil Wa… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Martin, Johnathan Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, TX]

Description: Photograph of Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, TX. The courthouse is mostly rectangular in shape with a section of the building projecting outwards from the rest, on the side facing the camera. The building is made of white stone and pale orange bricks, with the bottom two floors built entirely from stone bricks while the upper two floors consist of bricks accented and decorated with stone. Each of the four floors of the courthouse have a row of windows across their widths. On the left s… more
Date: September 1968
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Gainesville blaze loss over million]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at two cotton warehouses in Gainesville. The mayor claimed that this was the worst fire in the city's history.
Date: October 9, 1956
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Clarence S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981

Description: Transcript of an interview with Clarence S. ("Turby") Turbeville, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Turbeville discusses his family background, his employment by his father selling appliances, butane gas systems, and sporting goods in Gainesville in 1934, the sale of the butane business in 1944, experimentation with fish baits, and his partnership with Ike Walker in founding Bomber Bait Company. At the end of the interview, a one-page leaflet is inserted that de… more
Date: June 17, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Turbeville, Clarence S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[House on Denton Street]

Description: Photograph of Byrd Williams Senior's home in Gainesville on Denton Street. The house has two stories, a balcony, and a large number of windows.
Date: 1890
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Quake Here]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 20, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Byrd Sr. and Mary Williams in Gainesville]

Description: Photograph of Byrd Williams Sr. and his wife Mary Alice standing on either side of a tree and looking towards the camera. Byrd is dressed in a hat, suit jacket, vest, pants, and bowtie. Mary is wearing a long, dark dress with long sleeves. A house can be seen behind them which is likely their home in Gainesville, Texas.
Date: 1929
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from H. S. Moore to Charles, July 28, 1872]

Description: The author says that everyone is doing fine. They had a little bit of horse trouble, some of the horses got scared and loose and ran away. They were able to recover the horses though. The author went hunting in Cooke county, which didn't go well, but he found a bee tree.
Date: July 28, 1872
Creator: Moore, H. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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