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Amblema plicata, Specimen #3

Description: One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a quadrate shape; thick shell; single looped beak sculpturing; purplish-white internal coloring; brown external coloring; external sculpturing in the form of ridges. Collected in the San Jacinto basin. The specimen measures between 60 - 100 mm in length and was assessed to be recently dead when collected.
Date: October 4, 1975
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Murphy, C.; Golightly, C. & Boone, Constance
Item Type: Refine your search to only Specimen
Partner: Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum
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Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1975

Description: Program for the 79th annual meeting of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, held from March 21 through the 22, 1975 at the Travelodge Houston Southwest, in Houston, Texas, including a list of sessions for the meeting and related information about the organization and conference. The meeting was called to order by President George P. Red in the Apollo Room of the Travelodge.
Date: March 1975
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Effects of the Urbanization on Floods in the Houston, Texas Metropolitan Area

Description: Abstract: Rainfall and runoff data from drainage basins in the Houston metropolitan area and a 60-year rainfall record for the National Weather Service station, Houston-City, were used to simulate 60 annual flood peaks at 26 sites. Selected frequency characteristics, based on these simulated annual peaks are related to drainage area and percentage of impervious area. These relations which may be used to estimate the flood characteristics at ungaged sites, indicate that in the Houston metropolit… more
Date: April 1973
Creator: Johnson, Steven L. & Sayre, Douglas M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Effects of Three Physical Education Activites on Selected Physical Fitness Components

Description: This study was designed to investigate the relative effects of selected physical education activities upon four components of physical well-being of college men. This study was intended to determine if changes occur in endurance, flexibility, balance, and agility by groups participating in either apparatus gymnastics, wrestling or swimming.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Hampton, Gary Wade
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

Evening dress

Description: Evening dress of navy blue polyester knit in halter style. Full length, full skirt; gathered at elastic waist. Attached belt of matching fabric is draped with big filigree gold buckle at center front waist; hook & loop closure at center back. Hook & loop closure at back neckline and base of back opening. Unlined. Retailer label: Sakowitz
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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The Folklore of Texan Cultures

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of various ethnic and religious groups residing in Texas, including songs, myths, legends, and other essays. The index begins on page 363.
Date: 1974
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Friday Night in the Coliseum

Description: Friday Night in the Coliseum is a short film featuring wrestling performances recorded at the Sam Houston Coliseum, in Houston, Texas, along with interviews with audience members and wrestling promoter Paul Boesch. The film features many wrestlers who were well-known in Houston, including The Crusher, Nick Kozak, Red Bastien, Dory Funk, Stan Stasiak, Johnny Valentine, Thunderbolt Patterson and Wild Bull Curry. The creation of this film was supported by a grant from the Corporation for Public B… more
Date: 1972
Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Winningham, Geoff & York, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[J. Lee Clark. Jack Daniels Employee]

Description: Photograph of an employee of the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee. He wears a camouflage hat and is pictured from the chest up. Narrative by Junebug Clark: This picture of J. Lee Clark (no relation) is part of Joe & Junebug Clark's book "Up The Hollow From Lynchburg." Photo by: Junebug Clark. Signed by: Junebug Clark Clark PhotoFile: 9150-0011-19
Date: October 17, 1972
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lampsilis teres, Specimen #278

Description: One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the San Jacinto basin. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be live when collected.
Date: October 4, 1975
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Murphy, C.; Golightly, C. & Boone, Constance
Item Type: Refine your search to only Specimen
Partner: Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum
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Land-Surface Subsidence at Seabrook, Texas

Description: Abstract: Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, has caused a decline in fluid pressures, which in turn has resulted in subsidence of the land surface. Subsidence of the land surface at Seabrook is due principally to the removal of water. Significant subsidence of the land surface probably began after 1920, and a minimum of about 3.3 feet (1.0 m) and a maximum of about 4.3 feet (1.3 m) of subsidence had occurred at Seabrook by 1973. Probable … more
Date: October 1976
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays Near Baytown, Texas

Description: Abstract: Subsidence in the Baytown area is becoming critical because much of the area is subject to inundation by high tides. Withdrawals of water from industrial wells and declines in artesian pressures began about 1918. As much as 280 feet (85.3 meters) of artesian-head decline has occurred in the Evangeline aquifer, and as much as 320 feet (97.5 meters) of decline has occurred in the Alta Lorna Sand. Subsidence of the land surface began about 1920, and as much as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) of su… more
Date: September 1974
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Moses Lake Near Texas City, Texas

Description: Abstract: Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris and Galveston Counties has caused declines in fluid pressures, which in turn have resulted in subsidence of the land surface. Subsidence of the land surface at Moses Lake is due principally to the removal of ground water in adjacent areas. Significant subsidence of the land surface at Moses Lake began after 1900, and as much as 1.8 feet (0.55 meters) of subsidence had occurred in the area by 1973. Probable future subsidence … more
Date: October 1976
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Leather pumps

Description: Women's pumps of yellow patent leather. Designed with squared toe with plain uppers, the 1 1/2" high black patent leather heels have an inlay of concentric rectangles of alternating navy blue, green, orange, and red leather. Lined in cream leather. Designer Label (Left shoe): "Herbert Levine" Retailer's Label (Right shoe): "Amen Wardy / El Paso, Texas" Handwritten notation inside shoe: "7 1/2 M / 16887" Measurements: Length: 26.5 cm Width: 8 cm Height: 9 cm Heel: 4.5 cm / 1.5 in
Date: 1970/1977
Creator: Levine, Beth, 1914-2006
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Leptodea fragilis, Specimen #470

Description: One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits a rhomboidal shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the San Jacinto basin. The specimen measures between 60 - 100 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date: October 4, 1975
Creator: Britton, Joseph; Murphy, C.; Golightly, C. & Boone, Constance
Item Type: Refine your search to only Specimen
Partner: Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum
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