The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1965 (open access)

The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1965

Student newspaper from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas that includes local and school news along with advertising.
Date: September 3, 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1955 (open access)

The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1955

Student newspaper from Lubbock Senior High School in Lubbock, Texas that includes local and school news along with advertising.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, April 7, 1997 (open access)

Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, April 7, 1997

Student newspaper from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas that includes local and school news along with advertising.
Date: April 7, 1997
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
COBA, Spring/Summer 1981 (open access)

COBA, Spring/Summer 1981

Newsletter of the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University, including announcements and information about events, activities, courses, and staff of the college.
Date: Spring 1981
Creator: Texas Tech University. College of Business Administration.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the United Methodist Church: 1969 (open access)

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the United Methodist Church: 1969

Journal of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 277.
Date: 1969
Creator: United Methodist Church (U.S.). Northwest Texas Conference.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoein' the Short Rows (open access)

Hoein' the Short Rows

Volume of Texas folklore, including folk arts and crafts, lime production, oil and petroleum, information about cockfighting, folk poetry, mysticism and other stories. The index begins on page 231.
Date: 1987
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008

Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, founder of James Avery Craftsman from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Avery discusses his childhood, education, service in World War II, and starting and developing his jewelry business. The interview includes photographs of Mr. Avery, on pages 35-41.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Leonard, Julie Mosty & Avery, Homer James
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ike Walker, September 16, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ike Walker, September 16, 1981

Transcript of an interview with Ike Walker, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Walker discusses his family background, his employment as a gasoline retailer and tire repair operator, and his interest in designing fish baits that led to the development of the Bomber Bait Company with Clarence Turbeville in 1945.
Date: September 16, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Walker, Ike
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank, Gutierrez, June 18, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Frank, Gutierrez, June 18, 2016

Frank Gutierrez grew up in Lubbock, Texas and graduated from Lubbock High School. He then joined the military and served in Vietnam. Upon returning, he enrolled in Texas Tech University. He has served in various non-profits and a charter school. He has ran for various local political offices.
Date: June 18, 2016
Creator: Gutierrez, Frank; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Tech Business, Winter 1984 (open access)

Texas Tech Business, Winter 1984

Newsletter of the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University, including announcements and information about events, activities, courses, and staff of the college.
Date: Winter 1984
Creator: Texas Tech University. College of Business Administration.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016

Billie Caviel was raised in East Texas, attending all African American Schools. She attended university and pharmacy school at Texas Southern University in Houston. Once graduating, Caviel and her husband, who was also a pharmacist, moved to Lubbock, Texas to work for a Jewish pharmacist because no one else would give them jobs in the state because they were African American. Caviel and her husband later founded their own pharmacy, which they kept open for forty-nine years. Caviel also served as a Lubbock ISD school board member for a number of years during the early 1990s.
Date: June 30, 2016
Creator: Caviel, Billie & Wisely, Karen
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Christy Martinez-Garcia, June 14, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Christy Martinez-Garcia, June 14, 2016

Christy Martinez-Garcia was born and raised in Lubbock. She attended Lubbock High School, Lamar University, and completed her degree at Texas Tech University. After college, Martinez-Garcia worked for the Lubbock city government and then for the National Council of La Raza in Washington D.C. Upon her return to Lubbock, Martinez-Garcia sought to counter the local media narrative that mostly only depicted Hispanics as criminals or only immigrants. Thus, she founded the magazine, Latino Lubbock. She also ran for a position in the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees. Martinez-Garcia has participated in numerous community organizations and was responsible for the naming of Cesar Chavez street in Lubbock as well as having a historical marker for a what once a migrant labor camp.
Date: June 14, 2016
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Martinez-Garcia, Christy
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the United Methodist Church: 1972 (open access)

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the United Methodist Church: 1972

Journal of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 207.
Date: 1972
Creator: United Methodist Church (U.S.). Northwest Texas Conference.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
A History of Lubbock (open access)

A History of Lubbock

Book discusses the history of Lubbock, Texas including the physical geography of the area and the history of the people living there focusing on economics, government, education, agriculture, and other aspects of daily life. Index starts on page 642.
Date: 1962
Creator: Graves, Lawrence L.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 12, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912 (open access)

The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 12, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 22, 1912
Creator: Dow, James L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas and Southwestern Lore (open access)

Texas and Southwestern Lore

Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006 transcript

Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006

Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.
Date: May 2, 2006
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1918 (open access)

The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1918

Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 5, 1918
Creator: Dow, James L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1910 (open access)

The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1910

Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 3, 1910
Creator: Dow, James L. & Turner, John F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, Undergraduate/Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, Undergraduate/Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2021-2022, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1914 (open access)

The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 26, 1914
Creator: Dow, James L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University: 2019-2020, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University: 2019-2020, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2019-2020, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2018-2019, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2018-2019, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2018-2019, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2017-2018, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2017-2018, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2017-2018, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History