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[News Script: Sr. Citizen's Fair]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.

Date: October 27, 1968

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[World War One Small Box Gas Mask]

World War One-era "small box respirator" gas mask, consisting of a canvas or cloth face piece, with inset glass or resin eye lenses, and straps that wrap around the back of the head. The front of the mask has a valve located behind a cloth-covered tube that goes over the mouth and attaches to a small yellow metal box containing activated charcoal (made of peach pits or the pits from other stone fruits). The wearer would have breathed only through the mouth, inhaling air scrubbed clean by the ch… more

Date: [1914..1918]

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[World War One Doughboy Helmet]

Doughboy helmet owned by Alvin Mansfield Owsley during World War One, made of steel with an anjustable leather chin strap. Officially known as the M1917 Helmet, it was also known colloquially as the dishpan hat, tin pan hat, washbasin, battle bowler, and Kelly helmet.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Physical Object

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rickenbacker]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Date: October 20, 1972, 10:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[SAR Insignia]

No Description Available.

Date: unknown

Creator: Sons of The American Revolution

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture is of the ruins of Berzieux with a person standing in the middle of the rubble. The bottom picture is of English soldiers in trenches awaiting battle.

Date: 1914~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture is of the Port of Ferriere in Martigues with the canal and boats on the right, and a road and buildings on the left. The bottom picture is of the ruins of a structure in a field after the Battle of the Ourcq, part of the First Battle of the Marne.

Date: 1914~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Soldiers

Copy negative of two portraits of World War I soldiers in uniform. The picture on the left is of one soldier leaning on a desk. The picture on the right is of three soldiers standing together.

Date: 1914~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from France in World War I. The first is of the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. There is a fence around the monument, and there are buildings behind it. The picture on the right is of uniformed soldiers standing in line for Red Cross services in a building.

Date: 1914~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Soldiers in the Field; Soldiers with Cannon

Copy negative of two pictures. The top picture is of a group of soldiers in World War I in a building recuperating in 1914 or 1915. There is a caption and information in French under the photograph. The bottom picture is of two men working with a canon in 1918, also with a caption under it.

Date: [1914..1918]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Small Boats Under Bridge; Panorama of Countryside

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with captions in French under them. The top picture is of the bridge at Chemin de Fer with a line of boats passing under it and larger boats on the right and in the background. The second picture is a view of Quincy Basse.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with captions in French under them. The top picture is of the ruins of the town of Bapaume with destroyed buildings. The bottom picture is of a bridge over a river with mountains at a park.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture shows several soldiers in the woods with a cannon in 1914. The bottom picture is of the ruins of Neuve Chapelle, showing buildings reduced to rubble taken between 1914 and 1917.

Date: {1914,1914..1917}

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture is of a barbed wire fence around an area with a soldier, a building, and plants. The bottom picture is of the Highland Brigade who took Martinpuich marching down a road beside a field. The men in front are playing bagpipes.

Date: [1914..1917]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with notes printed on them in French. The top picture is of Russian soldiers marching down a road with a crowd watching from the other side. There are three men in front, one of them holding a flag, and there are lines of men behind them carrying guns with bayonets. The bottom picture shows the old Palais du Trocadéro viewed under the Eiffel Tower.

Date: [1914..1917]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World War I Scenes

Copy negative of two pictures from World War I with captions in French under them. The first is of a German Howitzer in 1914 with other equipment and a building in the background. The second picture is of a destroyed church and a vase still intact.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Group Photo of 136th Aero Squadron]

Photograph of the 136th Aero Squadron at Dallas, Texas in 1916. William G. Fuller sits in the front row, the fifth from the center on the left side. Two men in the back hold American flags, and there are trees in the background.

Date: 1916

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

[Photograph of William G. Fuller in Uniform]

Photograph of William G. Fuller posing in uniform in front of a tent.

Date: [1916..1919]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

Honor Roll World War II, Nolan County

Photograph of a World War II veterans memorial in Sweetwater, Texas. The text on the center piece reads "Honoring all who served from Nolan County and dedicated to the everlasting memory of those who sacrifice their lives of the altar of freedom in World Wars I and II. Korea. Vietnam."

Date: August 7, 2005

Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 32.471031354024994 -100.40779452486879

Partner: UNT Libraries

[Wooden Hangar at Brooks Air Force Base[

Photograph of the exterior of a wooden hangar, the only remaining World War I hangar in the US, at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. A tree and a fire hydrant are visible in the foreground.

Date: 196X

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

Vauquois

Map of the site where the Battle of Vauquois took place. The extensive tunnel system in the area is depicted. This battle took place during World War I from 1914-1918. The small village of Vauquois, France, was strategically located on a hill that gave a commanding view of the surrounding area. Control of the hill was contested throughout the entirety of the war. This conflict led to one of the most extensive tunneling operations during the war. The American unit that fought at Vauquois during … more

Date: [1914..1918]

Creator: Hobbs, O. K.

Item Type: Map

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The world: prepared expressly for the National Geographic Magazine, showing the political divisions, including those established after the World War

Atlas map of the world showing international and states boundaries after World War I. The map includes insets of the north polar region (upper-left), south polar region (upper-right), density of population and prevailing winds (lower-right), and natural vegetation and ocean currents (lower-left). Scale [ca. 1:39,600,000] (625 miles to the inch).

Date: 1922

Creator: Grosvenor, Gilbert

Item Type: Map

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

American expeditionary forces H.Q. 306th Tank Corps. Reconnaaissance Dept., Vauquois Hill, 4 kilometers S.E. of Varennes, France.

Map of the site where the Battle of Vauquois took place. The extensive tunnel system in the area is depicted as well as trenches, signal stations, and observation post. Horizontal scale [ca. 1:1,000]. Vertical scale [ca. 1:200].

Date: January 27, 1919

Creator: Bolan, H. W.; Benson, E. E.; Hobbs, O. K. & Van Lith, P.

Item Type: Map

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Life of Francis King Duncan

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Francis King Duncan, who was pronounced dead by three doctors when he cracked his skull open on an old wooden stove in a train collision; but while the undertaker was preparing him for burial, he awoke. He developed a bad case of boils, contracted tuberculosis twice, and caught yellow fever in Oregon. After his service in World War I, Frank Duncan settled in Marfa, Texas, with his wife and daughter.

Date: December 13, 1965

Creator: Bagley, Bob

Item Type: Text

Partner: Marfa Public Library