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[News Script: Messiah]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a couple of football players who found a man who calls himself "The Messiah of God."
Date: November 10, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Culture Seminar]

Description: Sound recording of Richard B. Allen and Jack Hurley giving talks during the 6th Annual Oral History Association Colloquium.
Date: 1971
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Southwest]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6:00 P.M.
Date: March 21, 1979
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a stagecoach in New Orleans]

Description: Photograph of individuals riding through an intersection in a green stagecoach near bourbon street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Two individuals sit inside the carriage, while the driver, who wears a black top hat, and another individual sit on a bench seat on the front of the carriage. A tall, brick building stands on the corner behind them. It has green trim and a wrought-iron railing around its second floor balcony.
Date: 1958
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Bourbon St in New Orleans, Louisiana]

Description: Photograph of the corner of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. A streetlamp stands on the sidewalk in the foreground displaying a sign that reads, "Bourbon St." Another sign hangs below it that says, "One Way" with an arrow pointing to the right. A light green building stands on the corner. Four steps leads to a dark green screen door with the building number "719" posted on it. The intersecting street, which is partially visible to the right of the building, disappears into the distance. more
Date: 1958
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Bruce Gordon Elliot, May 17, 2002

Description: Interview with Bruce Elliot, a Navy veteran and POW from Montezuma, Kansas. Elliot discusses his family, joining the Navy and volunteering for Asiatic service, the start of war and the bombing of Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, escaping internment on Palawan and joining Moro guerillas, sabotage, linking up with Australian forces, evacuation to Australia and returning to the United States, becoming a deepsea diver, and Korean War service. In a… more
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Date: May 17, 2002
Creator: Alexander, Bill & Elliot, Bruce Gordon
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Bourbon Street]

Description: Photograph of Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Three men can be seen standing under a street sign that reads "Bourbon Street." Behind them, is a poster of man playing a trumpet with the phrase "Now Appearing."
Date: 197X
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Clarence Kingsley, November 21, 2003

Description: Interview with Charles Kingsley, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas, who served in the 112th Cavalry. Kingsley discusses his upbringing, joining the Guard, the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to New Caledonia, his troop's machine gun section/platoon, Woodlark Island, the Battle of Arawe, New Guinea and the Battle of Drinumor River, the Battles of Leyte and Luzon, his thoughts on the generals he served, and thoughts on the 112th.
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Date: November 23, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Kingsley, Clarence
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Clip: Flaming gas well is snuffed out]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about firefighting efforts on a burning gas well on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
Date: February 6, 1953
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

An Ecological Characterization Study of the Chenier Plain Coastal Ecosystem of Louisiana and Texas, Volume 3: Atlas

Description: Atlas of maps illustrating habitat groups along a portion of the Gulf Coast stretching across Texas and Louisiana. It includes two index maps (one for each state)
Date: August 1979
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation of Backswamp Sediments: Atchafalaya Test Section 6, Atchafalaya Levee System, Louisiana

Description: This report describes the results of a series of tests on soil borings taken in Atchafalaya Test Section VI, a 2000-ft-long portion of the Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee System in south-central Louisiana. The samples were tested to interpret the depositional layers in the foundations soils and to determine various engineering properties.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Krinitzsky, E. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of Gulf Coast Structural Damage Resulting from Hurricane Camille, August, 1969

Description: This report describes damage to structures by Hurricane Camille in qualitative terms, and with photographs. The investigation was carried out by a team sponsored by the Office of Civil Defense, and it includes conclusions and recommendations.
Date: 1970
Creator: Criswell, Marvin E. & Cummins, Reid S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pile Loading Tests Combined Morganza Floodway Control Structure

Description: Series of pile loading tests performed on the Morganza Floodway control structure to determine the most economic way to support the foundation in the compressible underlying soils. The report also provides information about the structure and previous tests.
Date: January 1950
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology of the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain, Southeastern Louisiana: Volume 1

Description: "The purpose of this report is to consolidate data gathered by the Corps of Engineers in various geologic investigations, and to augment this material with pertinent information garnered from the extensive investigations and studies [of the Mississippi River deltaic plain and its associated offshore area]" (p. 1). The report focuses primarily on those materials that are most important from an engineering standpoint.
Date: July 1958
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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