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Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
Volume of essays about African-American folklore, including reminiscences of African-American folk culture in Texas, studies of specific genres of folklore, information about Texas-African food-ways, studies of specific performers, information about songs and other folklore. The index begins on page 353.
Date:
1996
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bruce Gordon Elliot, May 17, 2002
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Interview with Bruce Elliot, a Navy veteran and POW from Montezuma, Kansas. Elliot discusses his family, joining the Navy and volunteering for Asiatic service, the start of war and the bombing of Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, escaping internment on Palawan and joining Moro guerillas, sabotage, linking up with Australian forces, evacuation to Australia and returning to the United States, becoming a deepsea diver, and Korean War service. In appendix are a photo of Elliot, a map of the Philippines, two photos of a POW camp on Palawan, and a photo of three of his comrades.
Date:
May 17, 2002
Creator:
Alexander, Bill & Elliot, Bruce Gordon
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces
This study is about the history and evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana in an objective and comprehensive way.
Date:
July 2004
Creator:
Austin, Diane & McGuire, Tom
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry
An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Date:
July 2004
Creator:
Austin, Diane; Carriker, Bob; McGuire, Tom; Pratt, Joseph; Priest, Tyler & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 1: Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry
This study examines the expansion of offshore oil and gas development and its effects on shaping Louisiana's culture, geography, society and economy.
Date:
September 2008
Creator:
Austin, Diane; Priest, Tyler; Penney, Lauren; Pratt, Joseph; Pulsipher, Allan G. & Abel, Joseph
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
No Quarter: the Story of the New Orleans Greys
The purpose of this thesis document is to explain the process of making the documentary film, No Quarter: The Story of the New Orleans Greys. The document is organized by having the prospectus and the film proposal at the beginning, with the body describing how the film was made based on the prospectus. The purpose of the film is to tell the history of a unit of volunteers in the Texas Revolution, the New Orleans Greys. The document describes the methods used to make the film and how it will be distributed to the intended audience. As the thesis explains, the film changed slightly from the prospectus, however the resulting film was successful in telling the history of the little-known New Orleans Greys.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Barnes, Travis S.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How Does It Feel to be Creative? A Phenomenological Investigation of the Creative Experience in Kinetic Places
How does it feel to be creative? Such a question, when approached from a phenomenological perspective, reveals new understandings about the embodied experience of creativity, and how it feels as it is being lived. This investigation begins with a provocative contrast of two environments where creativity is thought to manifest itself: school art classrooms, where creativity is often legislated from an authority figure, and New Orleans Second Line parades, where creativity is organically and kinetically expressed. A thorough review of the literature on creativity focuses on education, arts education, creative economies, psychology, and critical theorists, collectively revealing a cognitive bias and striking lack of consideration for community, freedom, and the lived experience of being creative. Further discussions in the literature also neglect sites of creativity, and the impact that place (such as a school classroom) can have upon creativity. The phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Bachelard, and Trigg support a methodological lens to grasp embodied knowledge, perceptions of placedness on creativity, and the interdependent frictions between freedom, authenticity, movement and belonging. The research method includes investigations in New Orleans in archives, examination of visual and material culture, participation in cultural practice, and formal and informal interviews. Further, the phenomena of …
Date:
December 2017
Creator:
Bartholomee, Lucy
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lower Mississippi Valley Ecological Inventory: User's Guide and Information Base
"The objective [of this report] is to produce an inventory of those important ecological along the lower Mississippi River on which siting of major industrial facilities and land clearing operations could have an impact."
Date:
May 1983
Creator:
Beccasio, Angelo D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999
Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, vice-chair of the Kerr County Historical Commission from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Snodgrass talks about growing up on a primitive ranch, struggling to survive during the Depression, meeting and marrying her husband, their family, their involvement with music, and her efforts to preserve the history of Kerr County. She also briefly discusses the honors and awards her volunteer work has earned her. Pages 2-13 include a written statement by Miles Abernathy Lowrence, Clarabelle's maternal great-uncle.
Date:
September 25, 1999
Creator:
Bethel, Ann & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ruth Simons (Kerr) Ray, December 6, 1996
Interview with Ruth Simons (Kerr) Ray, the great-great granddaughter of James Kerr, from Canyon Lake, Texas. Mrs. Ray discusses her ancestor's life and his history in the Hill Country, as well as the Historical Marker Dedication Ceremony at the Kerr County Courthouse.
Date:
October 6, 2000
Creator:
Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle & Ray, Ruth Simons
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gib Morgan, Minstrel of the Oil Fields
This volume includes stories about the life of a West Texas oil driller named Gib Morgan and other folk stories about the oil industry.
Date:
1965
Creator:
Boatright, Mody Coggin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Fragile Cysts by an Aberrant Strain of Azotobacter Chroococcum Isolated from Soil
The purpose of this study is to determine if a strain of Azotobacter chroococcum isolated from the soil in northern Louisiana produces cysts which are as resistant to deleterious agents as those produced by previously reported strains os Azotobacter.
Date:
May 1969
Creator:
Cagle, Gerald D.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preparation of an Interactive key for Northern Gulf of Mexico Polychaete Taxonomy Employing the DELTA/INTKEY System
This report is about the preparation of the interactive key for northern Gulf of Mexico.
Date:
October 2003
Creator:
Carney, R.S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elections in States Affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
None
Date:
October 17, 2006
Creator:
Coleman, Kevin J. & Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elections in States Affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
None
Date:
May 26, 2006
Creator:
Coleman, Kevin J. & Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nell Joyce Goodwin Lenard, March 12, 2012
Transcript of an interview with Nell Lenard, secretary, administrative assistant, homemaker, and community organizer, who helped bring senior citizen's center, the Dietert Center to the city of Kerrville, Texas. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, she and her husband John Houston Lenard lived in Tomball, near Houston, before moving to Kerrville with their family. Nell raised four boys and a girl and was heavily involved in her their lives and activities.
Date:
March 12, 2012
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Lenard, Nell Joyce Goodwin
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Ethel Baker Starkey, March 28, 2013
Interview with Ethel Baker Starkey, whose husband's ancestors were Texas Hill Country settlers, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Starkey discusses her husband's family history. She also talks about coming to Kerrville for a job with her family.
Date:
March 28, 2013
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Starkey, Ethel Baker
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
[Clyde Champion Barrow Wanted Report, 04/28/1933 - Dallas, Texas Police Department]
Wanted report for Clyde Barrow and his accomplice, Raymond Hamilton on the charges of kidnapping a man and a woman from Ruston, Louisiana and releasing them at Waldo, Arkansas, but taking the man's 1933 Ford Sedan on 4-23-1933. Handwritten note at the bottom states that the car was eventually found at Coleman, Texas two days later. This is a copy report from Ruston, Louisiana that was filed in Dallas, Texas.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Dan Smoot Report, Volume 9, December 1963 #1]
Two issues of The Dan Smoot Report which were published in December of 1963. These newsletters are devoted to a discussion of the Kennedy assassination, particularly Lee Harvey Oswald's motivations and childhood.
Date:
December 1963
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Dan Smoot Report, Volume 9, December 1963 #2]
Issue of The Dan Smoot Report published in December of 1963. The newsletter is devoted to a discussion of the Kennedy assassination, particularly Lee Harvey Oswald's motivations and childhood.
Date:
December 1963
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Dan Smoot Report, Volume 9, December 1963 #3]
Issue of The Dan Smoot Report which was published in December of 1963. The newsletter is devoted to a discussion of the Kennedy assassination, particularly Lee Harvey Oswald's motivations and childhood.
Date:
December 9, 1963
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[International Certificates of Vaccination]
Photocopy of an International Certificate of Vaccination booklet belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald, indicating that he has been vaccinated against smallpox as of June 8, 1963.
Date:
June 8, 1963
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lee Harvey Oswald's Birth Certificate]
Photocopy of Lee Harvey Oswald's birth certificate. It reads "This is to Certify, that Lee Harvey Oswald, lawful son of Robert E. Lee Oswald (Dec.) and Marguerite Claverie was born on the 18th day of October, 1939, and registered in Book NO. 807, Folio 1321, on the 25th day of October, 1939."
Date:
October 25, 1939
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History