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The Arctic Regions

Description: Topographic map of the arctic regions, including Siberia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Alaska, Greenland, Canada, and Newfoundland. The map includes towns, railroads, bodies of water, markers for cold and warm ocean currents, and other geographic features, with relief shown in hachures. The map also includes two inset map of Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land (upper-left corner) and the Ellesmere Island region (lower-left corner). Scale [ca. 1:146,741,876] (231.6 miles to the inch).
Date: 1925
Creator: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Cartographic Division
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

A new & correct map of the whole world : shewing ye situation of its principal parts. Viz the oceans, kingdoms, rivers, capes, ports, mountains, woods, trade-winds, monsoons, variation of ye compass, climats, &c. With the most remarkable tracks of the bold attempts which have been made to find out the North East & North West Passages.

Description: Map shows trade winds and monsoons with Australia as New Holland coast joined to N. Guinea and the east coast un-mapped; explorers routes in the North Atlantic, political boundaries, and ocean currents. Includes explanation, scale of English leagues, and text notes. Insets: "This chart is to shew ye degrees of the variation of ye compass as they were observed in ye year of 1700 in ye Atlantick and Indian Ocean" and "The North Pole." Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:34,000,000].
Date: 1719
Creator: Moll, Herman, d. 1732
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

World at one view.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, political boundaries, and cities in six continents. Includes tables [populations, cities, religions, building heights, rivers] and illustrations. Insets [Illustrations]: "Panoramic view of the route to China, by the Oregon railroad and the Pacific Ocean. This road once built, would become the great highway of nations," "Mongul," "Mountains of the Eastern Hemisphere," "Malay," "Female costumes of the different parts of the World," "African," [Mountains… more
Date: 1847
Creator: Phelps, Humphrey, 19th cent.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[News Script: Skate]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Captain James Calvert, of the United States Navy, arriving at Love Field for his talk to the Knife and Fork Club; Captain Calvert is the former commander of the USS Skate, a nuclear submarine that made history during cruises to and in the Arctic Ocean.
Date: March 25, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

World Climate.

Description: Map shows early twentieth century world temperatures, thermal regions, rainfall, pressure and winds, and storm tracks and frequency. Relief shown by spot heights. Scale not indicated.
Date: 1922?
Creator: John Bartholomew and Son
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[News Script: Cool School]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a number of Air Force men who are spending four-day stretches in 35 degree below zero weather in the open.
Date: January 26, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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