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Creating Open Access to a Historic Newspaper from an International Port City [Article]

Description: Article exploring a collaboration between the University of North Texas' The Portal to Texas History and the Rosenberg Library to archive and provide digital, open access to Galveston's newspapers. It was published as part of the conference proceedings from 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) held in 2022.
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Edsall, Brooke; Martino Henry, Lauren & Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Briarwood Grass Fire]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 13, 1993, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Storms of century]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about advances in technology that allow the more accurate prediction of severe storm movement and more advanced warning for communities in the storm path. The story also discusses storms that were on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) list of top weather events in terms of damage and cost including the 1900 hurricane in Galveston, Texas, the 1993 Hurricane Andrew in South Florida and… more
Date: December 13, 1999
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oklahoma City Indians]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Oklahoma City Indians beginning their Texas League spring training in Galveston.
Date: March 13, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Escapee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 13, 1970, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: GOP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 13, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: GOP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 13, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Henley Hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Elmer Wayne Henley, who has admitted to police that he took part in the mass killings in Houston who now faces his first court appearance.
Date: August 13, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Houston Murders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of four more bodies which were recovered from their sand graves on the Texas Gulf Coast, bringing to 27 the number of dead in the Houston horror story.
Date: August 13, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Limited Auto Use]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Court of Appeals in New Orleans which will hear arguments on a request for a permanent stay against Environmental Protection Agency air pollution controls limiting the use of automobile.
Date: February 13, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of searchers at High Island reported that they have found 24th body in the mass murder of teenage boys in the homosexual procurement ring that operated in the Houston area.
Date: August 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New Top Texas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of torrential downpours which have been reported at a number of points in Texas as violent thunderstorms, brilliant electrical displays and heavy hail roam the state.
Date: September 13, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Oklahoma City Indians]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Oklahoma City Indians beginning their Texas League spring training in Galveston.
Date: March 13, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story teasing upcoming stories on Roy Orr and Henry Grover.
Date: June 13, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tease & Houston]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of traffic fatality which turns out to be a homicides. Also, about the death toll from the South Texas Killings which now stands at 25. Also, about the Sheriffs who dug up four more victims of the Houston sex-torture case at High Island.
Date: August 13, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Texas City]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about cleanup after Hurricane Carla hit the Gulf Coast.
Date: September 13, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TPO]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of authorities who have resumed their search for more bodies in the mass slayings undercovered in the Houston area.
Date: August 13, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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