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Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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[News Script: O'Dwyer and Medina Pause in Dallas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the brief stop in Dallas by federal judge Harold Medina and former New York Mayor and Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Both are headed to El Paso, O'Dwyer is returning to Mexico while Medina is staying in El Paso to speak at the League of United Latin-American Citizens convention.
Date: June 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Killers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth police seeking an extradition for two men being held in a Tijuana jail who were also suspected of murdering a Fort Worth man during a robbery.
Date: January 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Detectives leave to quiz suspects]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police captain O. R. Brown and detective T. Walls leaving for Tijuana, Mexico to question two youths charged with murder.
Date: January 11, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fort Worth girls in Tijuana]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Patrician Ann Wilson and Gaylene Freeman waiting for their lovers, the murder suspects James Edward Davis and Billy Ray Clifton, to be freed from jail in Tijuana, Mexico.
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Madstones and Twisters

Description: Collection information about weather, plant and animal lore in Texas and Mexico. It also discusses folk remedies, folktales about tornadoes, information about prairie dogs, and ghost stories.
Date: 1958
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Mesquite and Willow

Description: Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
Date: 1957
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Tin Deposits of Durango, Mexico

Description: From abstract: This report summarizes the economic possibilities of the tin deposits of the Estado de Durango, Mexico. It describes in detail many deposits in the leading districts, which were examined in 1944, and briefly reviews some reports on undeveloped occurrences in the southern and western parts of the State. The general conclusion is that tin will continue to be produced by hand methods for many years, but probably at a decreasing rate, because the placer grounds which have always prod… more
Date: 1950
Creator: Smith, Ward C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Birth and Development of Parícutin Volcano, Mexico

Description: From introduction: In this report the authors have attempted to present a strictly factual account of the birth and development of Paricutin volcano and avoid any interpretive opinions that might break the true narrative of events.
Date: 1956
Creator: Foshag, William F. & González Reyna, Jenaro
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of a street in Mexico]

Description: Photograph of an empty street in Mexico. A sign with the face of a man is posted on a wooden electrical pole. Two vehicles are parked on the left side of the street. At the end of the street, an individual stands outside a blue and white building with the words "El Frente" painted on front. Electrical wires stretch across the street.
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about flooding in Laredo.
Date: June 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a street in Mexico, 2]

Description: Photograph of a street corner in Mexico. At the end of the street is a blue and white multi-story building with wooden doors and wrought-iron details. There are three doorways on the ground floor and three open doors with balconies on the floor above them. The right-most bottom doorway appears to the storefront to a general store. "El Frente" is painted above its doors. There are Pepsi soda advertisements on either side of the doorway. Two girls in dresses and a child stand in the open doorway … more
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of an alley in Mexico]

Description: Photograph of an alley in Mexico. A multi-story building with wrought-iron balconies stands on the right. A woman in a white patterned dress stands in one of its open doorways with her back to the camera. Further down in the alley three other individuals are walking. There are some trees and two parked automobiles at the far end of the alley. Hazy mountains are visible in the distance.
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mexican President]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Mexico's President, Ruiz Cortines, paying a surprise visit to the flood-ravaged border.
Date: July 8, 1954
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Flood]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about flooding in Laredo.
Date: June 30, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mexican models fly to New York show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mexican fashion designer Ramon Valdiosera and four models stopping over in Dallas en route to New York for a fashion show.
Date: August 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Doctors arrive for heart clinic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two Mexican cardiologists visiting Texas to participate in a symposium on heart disease at the Fort Worth Academy of Medicine.
Date: February 1, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News brief -- polio victim]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Lake Dallas man returning home in an iron lung after contracting polio while attending college in Mexico City.
Date: December 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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