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[Teacher leads a class at Crockett Elementary]

Description: Nancy Jimenez, a Spanish instructor of a dual class instruction at Crockett Elementary in Grand Prairie, Texas, directs her attention to her third grade students. According to Jimenez this program has a high pedagogical value, but there is also the danger that the students will forget what they have learned after finishing elementary because there is no continuation of dual class instruction.
Date: February 14, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

La Iniciativa Fronteriza de la TCEQ

Description: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to increase cooperation and exchange knowledge, experience, and technology related to the environment. The TCEQ mission is to maximize the efforts to improve the environment of the U.S. Mexico border region.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Margarita Becerra Cano and The San Diego Wall]

Description: Photograph of a Margarita Becarra Cano standing in front of her artwork, Code X 187: The San Diego Wall, at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas. The exhibit ran from March 26th, 1999 to April 24th, 1999. Several dozen thin wooden figures hang from the ceiling. The figures appear to be men wearing hats and sad expressions; all are the same. Two white walls are visible and have writing on them in both Spanish and English, which is largely obscured by the hanging objects. Cano wears a gray shir… more
Date: February 28, 1999
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

["Melchor Ocampo" in Fraile]

Description: A combine second and first class coach, No. 7 named "Melchor Ocampo" is the rear-end car on the Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's passenger train which has made a station stop at the small town of Fraile on February 23, 1960. Along these narrow gauge rails in the early 1920s bandits frequently staged holdups of trains carrying payrolls in gold and silver to the mines at Concepcion del Oro.
Date: February 23, 1960
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Train at Saltillo Depot]

Description: Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's Engine No. 2, a Consolidation type 2-8-0 locomotive, with its slope-back tender, stands on the turntable at Saltillo, Mexico on February 25, 1960. In the yesteryears this was a road engine used in dual service, heading a passenger train or a freight which usually consisted of ore cars.
Date: February 25, 1960
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Train at Concepcion del Oro]

Description: Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's Engine No. 7 has taken a long drink an a summer afternoon at the water tank located in the yards at Concepcion del Oro, preparing to head an ore consist. This was a mining town for many years where ore trains departed on frequent schedules for the Mazapil Smelter at saltillo, Mexico.
Date: February 23, 1960
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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