Presbyterian Men's Bible Class

Members of the Men's Bible Class of the First Presbyterian Church of Mesquite are standing on the steps of the Church. Pictured on the bottom row, left to right: J. C. Chapman; J. C. Rugel; not identified; J. M. Bennett; I. T. Kirk; John L. Hanby; and J. H. Fender; Second row from bottom: Edgar Range; E. A. Grubb; Charles A. Tosch; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; and Walter Hanby. Third row: fifth man from the left, Stanley Grubb. Fourth row: second man from left, O.C. Hanby, third man from the left, Hugh Gardner; Henry Humphries; Stanley Grubb. Back row: man on far right end, S.H. Whitehurst. Other members of the class included J.B. Bryant, S.H. Grubb, Robert Bryant, H.H. Hanby, W.E. Baker, I.M. Bell, Albert Tosch, L. E. Gross, W. F. Harris, Jim Edwards, J. T. Davis, D. J. Brown, Dan Rugel, F.I. Walker, Arthur Evans and Joe Cleary.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Form letter from Jeff Davis, Caradine R. Hooton and T. C. Gardner - February 6, 1941] (open access)

[Form letter from Jeff Davis, Caradine R. Hooton and T. C. Gardner - February 6, 1941]

A form letter from Jeff Davis, Caradine R. Hooton and T. C. Gardner, United Texas Drys, dated February 6, 1941. The letter provides information regarding the youth march on the Capitol.
Date: February 6, 1941
Creator: Davis, Jeff; Hooton, Caradine R. & Gardner, T. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Old negro] (open access)

[News Script: Old negro]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas man's 103rd birthday.
Date: February 4, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Accident] (open access)

[News Script: Accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a three-car accident involving an ambulance and two cars in Dallas.
Date: February 8, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sports] (open access)

[News Script: Sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 4, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Two killed in Dallas mishaps] (open access)

[News Script: Two killed in Dallas mishaps]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two deaths in Dallas county, one of which occurred when a man's boat caught on fire and another when his car overturned.
Date: September 27, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Report to W. P. Gannaway by R. W. Westphal, May 26, 1966 #1] (open access)

[Report to W. P. Gannaway by R. W. Westphal, May 26, 1966 #1]

Criminal intelligence report written by R. W. Westphal. Westphal states that Roman Harten, who appeared in the address book of Lee Harvey Oswald, was in Russia in 1956. The Dallas Police Department searched for records regarding this person and came up with a charge for a negligent collision. The fine was ten dollars.
Date: May 26, 1966
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Report to W. P. Gannaway by R. W. Westphal, May 26, 1966 #2] (open access)

[Report to W. P. Gannaway by R. W. Westphal, May 26, 1966 #2]

Criminal intelligence report written by R. W. Westphal. Westphal states that Roman Harten, who appeared in the address book of Lee Harvey Oswald, was in Russia in 1956. The Dallas Police Department searched for records regarding this person and came up with a charge for a negligent collision. The fine was ten dollars.
Date: May 26, 1966
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 92 #2]

Portrait of the 17 Dallas Fire class members from November 1958 to December 1958 posing in front of a building in three rows. All of the recruits are wearing light-colored uniforms including long-sleeved, button-down shirts and slacks, with dark-colored neckties and belts. The four men in the front row are crouching around a board identifying the group. Printed text attached to the bottom of the image provides names.
Date: December 15, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 92 #1]

Portrait of the 17 Dallas Fire class members from November 1958 to December 1958 posing in front of a building in three rows. All of the recruits are wearing light-colored uniforms including long-sleeved, button-down shirts and slacks, with dark-colored neckties and belts. The four men in the front row are crouching around a board identifying the group.
Date: December 15, 1958
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[BAPTIST STANDARD, DALLAS, TEXAS. Volume LVII, Number 32, August 9, 1945. 15 pages] (open access)

[BAPTIST STANDARD, DALLAS, TEXAS. Volume LVII, Number 32, August 9, 1945. 15 pages]

An issue of the BAPTIST STANDARD (Dallas, Texas) from August 9, 1945. The first page of fifteen includes: SOME DANGEROUS TRENDS by T. C. GARDNER ; Alto Frio Encampment by G. S. Hopkins ; T. N. Carswell Joins Staff Of United Texas Drys ; Why Southern Baptists Do Not Affiliate With the Federal Council of Churches by F. M. McCONNELL. Page six includes: "This Is No Place For A Man Like You" by Millard A. Jenkens. Page eleven includes: UNITED TEXAS DRYS - Our Field Workers.
Date: August 9, 1945
Creator: Baptist General Convention of Texas
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 190 #2]

Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from February 4, 1980 to July 3, 1980 posing outside a building in two rows. The recruits are wearing short-sleeved light blue shirts and blue jeans. The people in the front row are holding navy blue baseball caps in their laps, which have silver badge patches on the front, facing out.
Date: May 2, 1980
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Two killed in Dallas mishaps] captions transcript

[News Clip: Two killed in Dallas mishaps]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: September 27, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Golf] (open access)

[News Script: Golf]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Open Golf Tournament.
Date: September 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sports] (open access)

[News Script: Sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 26, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: The week in review] (open access)

[News Script: The week in review]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a review of the week's top news stories.
Date: February 8, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Jeff Davis to J. D. Riddle - June 11, 1941] (open access)

[Letter from Jeff Davis to J. D. Riddle - June 11, 1941]

A letter written to Mr. J. D. Riddle, First Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas, from Jeff Davis, Executive Secretary, United Texas Drys, dated June 11, 1941. Davis advises Riddle that Judge Miller has taken the case. Davis has directed Brother Moore to contact Miller and "let him get busy on the mandamus proceedings".
Date: June 11, 1941
Creator: Davis, Jeff
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Black Preaching in the Literary Tradition, Tape 2 captions transcript

Black Preaching in the Literary Tradition, Tape 2

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 20th anniversary season event entitled "Black Preaching in the Literary Tradition" held on March 1st, 1997. The footage shows the second half of the event including various pastor speakers on the poetical and metaphoric language in the Bible and sermons. The video begins with pastor Wright Lassiter of Saint John Missionary Baptist Church. The event covers the influence of the Bible and its literary style on the spirituality of the black community.
Date: March 1, 1997
Creator: Walker, Wyatt Tee & Clark, Caesar A. W.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs] (open access)

[News Script: News briefs]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the juror selection for the murder trial of Carl George Malloy, who was accused of murdering his 7-week-old son. Also covered, a story about a fire in Itasca that destroyed the Gardner Truck and Tractor Company and a merger between the Taylor Oil and Gas Company and the Delhi Oil Corporation.
Date: January 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sports] (open access)

[News Script: Sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 25, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: J. D. Tippit follows in granddad's path] (open access)

[Clipping: J. D. Tippit follows in granddad's path]

Newspaper clipping discussing a police officer that Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down while the officer was searching for the killer who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Officer Tippit's grandson, J. D. Tippit, is following in his grandfather's footsteps and becoming a police office. The article has red markings in pen.
Date: March 27, 2006
Creator: Kovach, Gretel C.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Miss Ursula McCarthy, September 10, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Miss Ursula McCarthy, September 10, 1952]

Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Miss Ursula McCarthy informing about change in dates of Southwest Regional Conference and requesting to communicate the same to Mr. I. H. Kempner.
Date: September 10, 1952
Creator: Geisenberger, Alex J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Mr. I. H. Kempner, August 25, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Mr. I. H. Kempner, August 25, 1952]

Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Mr. I. H. Kempner inviting to attend the Southwest Regional Conference, along with program details.
Date: August 25, 1952
Creator: Geisenberger, Alex J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Mr. I. H. Kempner, September 16, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Mr. I. H. Kempner, September 16, 1952]

Letter from Alex J. Geisenberger to Mr. I. H. Kempner showing gratitude for the previous letter confirming his attendance for the forthcoming regional conference, along with discussing the next steps.
Date: September 16, 1952
Creator: Geisenberger, Alex J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History