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Electricity in Rural Areas of North Texas
"This study shows three things: (1) a precedent for the expenditure of public funds to teach electricity in our public high schools has already been established by the school system in the larger school systems of Texas, (2) the rural families living on electrified farms in the North Texas area want instruction of this type given to the boys and girls in their communities, and (3) both the rural people and the professional people of the North Texas area believe that instruction dealing with the use of electricity and electrical equipment had spread until by 1935 more than twenty-one million homes, about eighty percent of the total in America at that time, were electrified, only eleven American farms out of every 100 had central-station electricity. More than five million American farms lacked electric service. "--leaf 50.
Date:
January 1949
Creator:
Greathouse, Charles Simmons
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Albert B. Thorn, July 25, 1990
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Albert Thorn concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Thorn worked at camps in Lake Arthur, New Mexico (Company 2842) and Carlsbad, New Mexico (Company 2842).
Date:
July 25, 1990
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Thorn, Albert B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comfort Women in Comfort History
Book about the history of notable women in Comfort, Texas. The book discusses female school teachers, journalists, religious leaders, free thinkers, artists, authors, and other women who made significant contributions to the establishment of the city of Comfort.
Date:
2008
Creator:
Stewart, Mike & Stewart, Anne
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Muenster, Texas: A Centennial History
Muenster, Texas, in Cooke County, began in 1889 through efforts of German-American colonizing entrepreneurs who attracted settlers from other German-American colonies in the United States. The community, founded on the premise of maintaining cultural purity, survived and prospered for a century by its reliance on crops, cattle, and oil. In its political conservatism and economic ties to the land, Muenster resembled its neighboring Anglo-American communities. Its Germanic heritage, however, became pronounced in the community's refusal to accommodate to the prohibitionism of North Texas regarding alcoholic beverages and in the parishioners' fidelity to the Roman Catholic faith. These characteristics are verified in unpublished manuscripts, governmental documents, local records, and interviews with Muenster residents.
Date:
August 1988
Creator:
McDaniel, Robert Wayne
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Schools of Cooke County, Texas
"This is an effort to tell the story of public education in Cooke County, Texas...."-- leaf 1.
Date:
August 1944
Creator:
O'Brien, Randolph
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Cooke County Library, Gainesville, Texas
"...a brief though fairly detailed, history of the Cooke County Library and it is hoped that this material will be of interest to friends of the library and that it will serve, not only as a history of its establishment and maintenance, but that it will also be an inspiration for future achievements...The facts herein were taken from newspapers, professional journals, notes kept by the late Lillian Gunter, the records of the Cooke County Library, and by word of mouth from citizens of Gainesville, Texas who helped in the establishment of the library."--leaf 1.
Date:
May 1945
Creator:
Self, Hazel
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas
The purpose of this study is to assemble the leading facts concerning the history of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Wilson, Roy P.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lorra Golden, February 9, 2013
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Interview with Lorra Golden, a Army Iraq War veteran from Gainesville, Texas. Golden discusses her family background, life before the military, joining the Army, training, struggles as an older enlistee and a lesbian in the service, deployment to Camp Taji, driving convoys, seeing combat, having PTSD, veterans, the chain of command, women in combat and female integration, and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In appendix is a chronology of Golden's service, and two photos of newspaper clippings of the construction of walls around Sadr City, Baghdad.
Date:
February 9, 2013
Creator:
Hedrick, Amy & Golden, Lorra
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Archie Gantt, August 31, 1999
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Interview with Army veteran Archie Gantt. The interview includes Gantt's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, boyhood in central Texas, basic training, shipping to England, combat on the Siegfried Line, and the Battle of the Bulge. Additionally, Gantt talks about leadership problems, combat living conditions, Officer Candidate School and commissioning, and his postwar war service in Europe.
Date:
August 31, 1999
Creator:
Lane, Peter B. & Gantt, Archie
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 Urban J. Endres, April 4, 1984
Interview with Urban J. Endres, a businessman from Muenster, Texas, about the period of prohibition of alcohol and bootlegging in the United States, his memories of the local option election of 1959, and his experience establishing his own beer distributorship.
Date:
April 4, 1984
Creator:
McDaniel, Robert Wayne & Endres, Urban J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarence S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981
Transcript of an interview with Clarence S. ("Turby") Turbeville, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Turbeville discusses his family background, his employment by his father selling appliances, butane gas systems, and sporting goods in Gainesville in 1934, the sale of the butane business in 1944, experimentation with fish baits, and his partnership with Ike Walker in founding Bomber Bait Company. At the end of the interview, a one-page leaflet is inserted that describes the influence of Turbeville, as well as the history of the Bomber Bait Company and of Bomber baits.
Date:
June 17, 1981
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd & Turbeville, Clarence S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The History of the Gainesville XLI Club and Its Relation to the General Women's Club Movement
"The organized woman's club movement spread into the State of Texas. Beginning as associations for self-culture and intellectual development, the clubs were soon laying the foundation for better conditions of living in their communities. Since Texas was largely in the pioneer stage of development with widely separated communities, the women's clubs in small centers became the nucleii for civic improvements. One of these small centers was the town of Gainesville, Texas, with a population of about 6,000 in the year 1893. That year the first women's club in the town was organized and named the Gainesville XLI Club. This club helped form the State Council of Women of Texas, formerly called the Women's Congress, in 1894, which was three years before the formation of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs."-- pg. 9-10 "It will, perhaps, be seen from the above survey that no transformation in modern society has been more striking or more fraught with significance than the change in the political, legal, economic, moral, and social status of women. Women's clubs were organized for discussion and study, with interests that varied according to location, surroundings, opportunities, and aspirations. The history of a pioneer club portrays the stages of development …
Date:
February 1951
Creator:
Culp, Bengta A.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 17. Civil War
Video of Dr. Torget's lecture about the U.S. Civil War, covering: (1) War Breaks Out, (2), Texans in the Confederate Armies, (3) Life on the Homefront, (4) End of War, End of Slavery.
Date:
2018-08-25T02:22:35/2018-08-25T03:42:36
Creator:
Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Pilot, August 10, 2010
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alan Pilot. Pilot joined the Army in January 1943 and received basic training at Camp Howze. He received further training in Louisiana for the European Theater and then in California for the Pacific Theater. In January he left for Camp Old Gold at La Havre, where he served as a combat medic, supporting Companies E, G, and H of the 343rd Infantry, 86th Division. His unit relieved the 8th Division and fought in Cologne, where he was stationed at the top of the cathedral while it was being shelled. In the Ruhr Pocket a defective shell landed 10 feet away from him. He recalls seeing 100,000 Germans surrender there. He describes the Bavarian people as friendly as he passed through Austria on VE Day. He was then sent to the Pacific as part of Operation Coronet. VJ Day came while he was still crossing the Pacific. He spent the last five months of his service in the Philippines at a quiet outpost while the rest of his unit prepared the Philippines for independence. Pilot returned home and was discharged in January 1946.
Date:
August 10, 2010
Creator:
Pilot, Alan
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Development of the Oil Industry in Cooke County
"This paper is the result of a study of the oil industry in Cooke County Texas. Consideration was given to the following factors: the physiography and geology of Cooke County, the first oil developments, opening of various fields, the Tydal Refinery, and the benefits of the oil industry to the county in terms of employment, busines establishments, schools, and social efforts. Both persona and documentary source were utilized for obtaining data on the present problem. Primary sources included statements made by land owners of Cooke County, oil operators, drillers, refinery personnel, business men, civic leaders, and the superintendents of schools, both in Gainesville, Texas, and in Cooke County. Secondary sources included newspapers, oil publications, and books on geology and the oil industry. "-- leaf vi.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Porter, Amy T.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Great Hanging
"The Great Hanging" is a documentary film that tells the story of the largest extra-legal mass hanging in U.S. History. This story is told through stage play recital of "October Mourning" written by historian and professor Dr. Pat Ledbetter. Using the stage play as a vehicle, the film showcases cinematic re-enactments based in the events in Gainesville, Texas during October 1862. These events show how a small community became overwhelmed by the fog of war and delved into madness as the Civil War crept closer and closer to their doorstep.
Date:
May 2016
Creator:
Martin, Johnathan Paul
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with C. S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981
Interview with C. S. Turbeville, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas, regarding his family background, upbringing on the farm, connection to business and the stores his family owned, research and testing of baits, fishing tournaments, and involvement in the Chamber of Commerce. (appliance store)
Date:
July 17, 1981
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd & Turbeville, Clarence S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 17. Civil War (ASL Interpretation)
American Sign Language interpretation of Dr. Torget's lecture about the U.S. Civil War, covering: (1) War Breaks Out, (2), Texans in the Confederate Armies, (3) Life on the Homefront, (4) End of War, End of Slavery. Video contains picture-in-picture rendering of slides and original narration.
Date:
2018-08-25T02:22:35/2018-08-25T03:42:36
Creator:
Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Study of the Shopping Goods Trade Flow from Lewisville, Lake Dallas, Sanger, and Valley View, Texas
"The purpose of the study is to determine the trading centers that receive significant amounts of shopping goods trade flow from the communities surveyed. The position that the Denton trading center holds as a source of shopping goods for households in these communities is compared with the postions held by some competing trading centers. This study is made in cooperation with the Denton Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of the merchants of Denton. It is based on a survey made in December 1953, by the Business Administration 470 (Marketing Research) class of North Texas State College."-- leaves 1, 58.
Date:
August 1955
Creator:
Robinson, David Charles
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Follow-Up of Business Graduates of Gainesville Junior College, Gainsville, Texas
"This study was made to determine whether or not Gainesville Junior College Commercial Department at Gainesville, Texas, is meeting the probable future needs of business employers and employees. An attempt is being made to find which courses could be enriched to advantage and the nature of the material to be used in the enrichment. All factual information in this study was gained through fifty questionnaires which were sent to business graduates of 1935-1945 of Gainesville Junior College. " -- leaf 1
Date:
August 1946
Creator:
Howton, David E.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Front View of Carnegie Building]
Photograph of a front-exterior view of Carnegie Building. The brick building is two-stories tall. There is a staircase leading to a doorway in the front. Awnings cover the two sets of windows on each side of the staircase. Trees surround the building. In front of the building, a car is parked on a street. At the corner of the street, there is a street sign that says "Denton."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Boyd & Breeding
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Historic Archaeology of the Johnson and Jones Farmsteads in the Ray Roberts Lake Area: 1850-1950
This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date:
1996
Creator:
University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix A: Jones Cemetery
This appendix contains an alphabetized and annotated list of burials identified in Jones Cemetery, with available birth and death rates. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).
Date:
1996
Creator:
University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library