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[Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX]

Description: Photograph of Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo while a slightly blurry parking meters appears in the bottom left corner. In front of the sidewalk across the road, slanted white lines have been painted on the road to indicate parking spaces. A short set of stairs extend from the sidewalk to a concrete walkway that leads up to another short set of stairs, which sit in front of the courthouse's front door. On either side of the walkway is… more
Date: August 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX]

Description: Photograph of Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX. The courthouse sits on a green lawn and is partially obscured by the foliage of tall trees planted throughout the lawn. The building is made of orange stone with white tiles on for the roofing and includes a tall clock tower at its top. The entrance of the building faces the left side of the photo and has two white doors shadowed by a balcony, above which is a column of three sets of windows. The entire building has four rows of windows span… more
Date: August 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX]

Description: Photograph of Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX. A paved parking lot occupies the foreground of the photo, occupied by multiple vehicles. A strip of yellow grass with telephone poles sitting in it separates the parking lot from the courthouse. A large tree grows behind the rightmost pole, partially obscuring the right side of the courthouse. The front side of the building faces the left side of the photo and has smaller trees growing around it. The courthouse's walls are a pale yellow, a… more
Date: August 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[San Augustine County CH - San Augustine]

Description: Photograph of San Augustine County CH - San Augustine. A yellow and green lawn surrounds the courthouse along with a line of shrubs and a handful of trees, with a tall stone slab sitting on a base in the lawn. The stone has some readable text including "In memory of those who lost their lives", "Killed in action", and "Killed in service", likely indicating it's a memorial. A sidewalk cuts through the lawn from the left side of the photo and leads up to the front doors of the courthouse. The doo… more
Date: August 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX]

Description: Photograph of Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX. A green lawn fills the bottom half of the photo as a tall tree shades the bottom right corner of the image. Additional plants the form of bushes appear along the walls of the courthouse and extend outward in lines from its entrance. A walkway in the right side of the photo leads from the front doors of the courthouse to the right edge of the image, disappearing off-camera. A planter of short bushes sits next to the walkway, near the courthous… more
Date: October 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wharton County in Wharton, TX]

Description: Photograph of Wharton County in Wharton, TX. A green lawn occupied by large bushes and tall trees leads up from a sidewalk to the white walls of the courthouse, which faces towards the left edge of the image. The building has a short section a taller portion rising above it, both made of white concrete. The entrance to the courthouse is in the shorter section and appears in the left side of the photo with a small set of stairs leading up to its glass doors. "Wharton County Courthouse" is writte… more
Date: October 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ward County Courthouse in Monahans, TX]

Description: Photograph of Ward County Courthouse in Monahans, TX. The courthouse faces towards the right edge of the photo as a sidewalk separates the building's lawn from the paved road running from the left edge of the photo to the bottom right corner. A section of the sidewalk near the center of the photo curves outwards to accommodate a patch of yellow and brown shrubs, next to which is a small brown box with a red top labeled "US mail". Behind the shrubs it a stone block with and upward-slanting top a… more
Date: January 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]]

Description: Photograph of Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]. The three-story white stone building sits on a green lawn filled with a few dark green bushes and trees along with parking meters, which line the sidewalk surrounding the courthouse. In the left side of the photo, a sign saying "See you in church Sunday" sits in the lawn. The widest side of the courthouse faces the right edge of the photo, though a large tree blocks its details from view. Each corner of the building resembles a tower as th… more
Date: June 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, TX]

Description: Photograph of McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, TX. A busy road runs in front of the courthouse, occupied by different colored cars and trucks. A tall set of stairs runs from a sidewalk right in front of the road up to the doors of the courthouse, with white stone plinths bordering the stairs and rising in height at regular intervals. On either side of the stairs at ground level are green lawns and tall green trees whose foliage partially obscures the courthouse's walls. The doors to the buil… more
Date: June 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Montgomery County Courthouse in Conroe, TX]

Description: Photograph of Montgomery County Courthouse in Conroe, TX. A road and a line of parking spaces span the width of the paved ground in front of the flat-roofed courthouse, with a single car parked in one of the lot spaces. A sidewalk runs in front of the parking spaces with parking meters set at regular intervals on it. A green lawn containing short green trees and lines of bushes sits between the sidewalk and the courthouse, interrupted only by a walkway that leads up to the entrance of the court… more
Date: July 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, TX]

Description: Photograph of Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, TX. Telephone poles sit on a stretch of green grass next to a section of paved ground that two cars sit on as they parallel park next to the courthouse's sidewalk. Grass fills the space between the sidewalk and the courthouse and contains multiple large green trees whose foliage almost entirely covers the walls of the courthouse. The building has orange brick walls with a row of circular windows near the edge of its dark gray roofline. Each… more
Date: July 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Limestone County Courthouse in Groesbeck, TX]

Description: Photograph of Limestone County Courthouse in Groesbeck, TX. A white truck in the right side of the photo drives from a red brick road, past a grassy median, and towards the concrete driveway of the courthouse, which curves from the left side of the image towards the right. On either side of the driveway are small patches of grass in the form of a lawn and a median, while a black and white car sits parked in the driveway directly in front of the courthouse. A tall tree and multiple bushes are pl… more
Date: October 1971
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Little Rock - Project Inventory]

Description: Project inventory for the Model Cities developmental program for Little Rock, Arkansas.The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty. Model Cities originated in response to several concerns of the mid-1960s. Widespread urban violence, disillusionment with existing urban renewal programs, and bureaucratic difficulties in the first years of the War on Poverty.
Date: [1972,1974]
Creator: National Model Cities Community Development Directors Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Model Cities: Facets of Community Development

Description: Pamphlet for the Model Cities: Facets of Community Development for Little Rock, Arkansas. Published by the National Model Cities Community Development Directors Association, National League of Cities in Washington, D. C. The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty. Model Cities originated in response to several concerns of the mid-1960s. Widespread urban violence, disillusionment with existing urban renewal programs, and bureaucrat… more
Date: [1972,1974]
Creator: National Model Cities Community Development Directors Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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