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[Letter from Belle George to her friends and family, 1898]

Description: Letter from Belle George in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, to her friends and family (the "home folks") in 1898. In the letter, Belle describes the events that took place during a great rain storm and subsequent river flooding in Tellico Plains, near the Tellico Lumber mill. While trying to secure her belongings and escape the home of Mr. Heyser, the general manager of Tellico Lumber, Belle fell into the water beneath a rearing horse ("Joe the horse"). She was saved by John Ballon, a black preacher… more
Date: 1898
Creator: George, Belle
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dam site]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new dam being built northwest of Meacham Field in Fort Worth. The dam is a Water Board flood control project.
Date: July 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire Plug]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about flooding on Bryan Street in Fort Worth. A truck smashed into a fire plug, causing thousands of gallons of water to spill out onto the road.
Date: February 6, 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: Council approves rainmaking tests]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth City Council deciding to utilize cloud seeding to produce rain for the city, which resulted in flooding in the Westgate section of Fort Worth.
Date: April 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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[Vehicles Stuck in Flood Water]

Description: Photograph of three commercial vehicles stuck in the flood waters from Detroit's worst flood in 1957. In the image the bus driver is sticking his body out the driver window, another man sits on top his truck's cabin, while the other crouches on top the container of his truck. More vehicles can be seen being held back by a police car from the rising waters.
Date: July 22, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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[Detroit bus driver asking for help]

Description: Photograph of stranded motorists in a flooded dug down expressway in Detroit, Michigan. Narrative by Junebug Clark: Additional photos and information can be found in the pdf document "Joe Clark HBSS LIFE Magazine Photos" Unfortunately when I was creating this document I missed this photo which ran as a LIFE Miscellany photo, which was the back page and a coveted spot. This photo was taken in Highland Park, Michigan. A city surrounded by Detroit. This is on Woodward Ave about 1/4 mile south of 6… more
Date: 19XX
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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[Vehicles Stuck in Flood Water]

Description: Photograph of three commercial vehicles stuck in the flood waters from Detroit's worst flood in 1957. In the image the bus driver is sticking his body out the driver window, another man sits on top his truck's cabin, while the other crouches on top the container of his truck. More vehicles can be seen being held back by a police car from the rising waters.
Date: July 22, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Clearlake]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about flooding in Clear Lake, California. This story was produced for the 10:00 P.M. news broadcast.
Date: February 9, 1998, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: KXAS-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: Brazil Flood]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about flooding in Brazil. This story was produced for the 10:00 P.M. news broadcast.
Date: February 18, 1998, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Flooding (Austin)]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about flooding in Austin, Texas.
Date: June 14, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Survivors]

Description: Video clip footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about individuals who have survived personal tragedies in the DFW area. Those interviewed include women stranded in floods, a woman that was shot four times, as well as a young man who lost both his legs in a fire. This story was produced for the 10:00 P.M. news broadcast.
Date: February 23, 1993, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Survivors]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about survivors of natural disasters and airplane crashes. This story was produced for the 10:00 P.M. news broadcast.
Date: November 12, 1990, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: JPS Air Cond.]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the flooding of the basement of the John Peter Smith Hospital in Dallas, Texas. The flooding caused power outages around Ft. Worth. The water also damaged the hospitals back up generators resulting in two others being borrowed from Carswell Air Force Base. This story showed how they kept the hospital air conditioned during the power outages. This story was produced for the 5:00 P.M. news broadcas… more
Date: July 7, 1981, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[News Script: Olney tornado]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado in Olney that killed two people, injured hundreds and destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings.
Date: May 20, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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[News Script: Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories of the past week.
Date: July 22, 1951
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: Flood threat]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a break in a levee near Crandall in Kaufman county putting the area at risk for flooding.
Date: June 6, 1951
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: Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week.
Date: June 17, 1951
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: Texas flood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe flooding in Plainview, closing roads and flooding homes.
Date: May 18, 1951
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 briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first story is about the retrial of a former Dallas payroll clerk convicted of criminally assaulting a housewife in front of her children. The second story is about "Cans for Kansas" week in Fort Worth, a food drive gathering supplies for areas of Kansas and Missouri struck by severe flooding.
Date: July 31, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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[News Script: Texas flood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ongoing flooding in Brownwood, forcing families to evacuate homes and closing roads and highways across the region.
Date: June 13, 1951
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 briefs one]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a national chief of civil engineers inspecting Tarrant County's various flood control projects, including Grapevine Dam.
Date: June 19, 1951
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: Furs for Holland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the manager of a Dallas fur company donating 200 fur clothing items to flood victims in Holland.
Date: February 5, 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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