Resource Type

[Historic Marker Application: Industry Methodist Church] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Industry Methodist Church]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Industry Methodist Church, in Industry, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, photographs, newspaper clippings, and a publication titled "One Hundred Years of Methodism at Industry, Texas."
Date: 1967
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Insurance Certificate for Maritime Insurance Company Limited, July 5, 1960] (open access)

[Insurance Certificate for Maritime Insurance Company Limited, July 5, 1960]

Insurance certificate for Harris Leon Kempner certifying that The American Express Co., Inc., has insured £100.00.00 on one case and one zip bag containing personal effects travelling from London to Galveston. Attached to the certificate is a slip with a replacement clause and a list of items in the case and bag.
Date: July 5, 1960
Creator: Maritime Insurance Company Limited
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: George Francis Home and Dublin Plantation] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: George Francis Home and Dublin Plantation]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the George Francis Home and Dublin Plantation, in Prairie Lea, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: August 23, 1968
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back to Genesis (open access)

Back to Genesis

Speech that Robert F. Kennedy was to deliver at the California Institute of Technology. Topics include the Constitution and the separation of powers in the United States government.
Date: 1964~
Creator: Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Chambersea] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Chambersea]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for Chambersea (the home of Thomas Jefferson Chambes), in Anahuc, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1968
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Something for the Archives: 1915 - 1965 - 2015 (open access)

Something for the Archives: 1915 - 1965 - 2015

Copy of a manuscript for the presidential address given by Robert S. Sparkman before the Texas Surgical Society in Galveston, Texas. In the speech, Sparkman compares and contrasts what life was like, medically and otherwise, when the society formed in 1915 versus the current state of affairs, and what 2015 may look like.
Date: October 4, 1965
Creator: Sparkman, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Zambrano House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Zambrano House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Zambrano House, in San Antonio, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker and narrative.
Date: 1966
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Walter Bremond Home] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Walter Bremond Home]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Walter Bremond Home, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the original application, narrative, and photograph.
Date: 1969
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frank Canton-Outlaw, General, Enigma (open access)

Frank Canton-Outlaw, General, Enigma

Canton, Frank M. Life of early day outlaw-lawman Frank M. Canton. Born Joe Horner, in 1849, near Richmond, Virginia. After brush with the law near Jacksboro, Tex., he changed his name to Canton. After that he was a range detective, sheriff, U. S. Marshall and put the Oklahoma National Guard in shape as its first adjutant general. 10 pages, magazine article
Date: 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Sixth National Conference of Friends on Race Relations Booklet] (open access)

[Sixth National Conference of Friends on Race Relations Booklet]

Booklet for the Sixth National Conference of Friends on Race Relations, with transcripts of speeches from the conference. The speeches are "Black Power** White Power** Shared Power," "Motivations and Methods of White Power" by Martha Ragland, and "The Gift of Blackness" by Vincent Harding.
Date: July 1967
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History