[Silas Williams in the Kitchen]

Photograph of a man identified as Silas Williams looking over his shoulder in a kitchen in a house in Santa Paula, California. Food wrapped in aluminum is visible on the counter in front of him.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man and woman standing in a kitchen]

Two photographs of a man ironing a shirt and a woman standing at a drink station in a kitchen in a home.
Date: 1987
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1093.0582]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Laurel Robertson holds a best-sellig cookbook she wrote called "Laurel's Kitchen."
Date: January 11, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Cummings Siblings]

Photograph of Cynthia Cover Cummings (standing), Chris Cover (sister), and Richard Jr. (brother) eating in the kitchen.
Date: January 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Note to Mr. Ebremayer About the Cost of a Purchase] (open access)

[Note to Mr. Ebremayer About the Cost of a Purchase]

Memo to Mr. Ebremayer regarding the price of bids for equipment, bedding, kitchen equipment, and dining room tables and benches.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Women in Front of House]

Photograph of three women and a girl standing on the small front patio of a house in Beverly Hill, California. Note on the back of the photograph reads, "In front of Dorthy Lamour's kitchen. I wonder who slept in there?"
Date: 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0509]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Because home builders are having it pretty rough right now, you can look for a lot more color, kitchen built-ins and roominess in the houses they put up from now on."
Date: November 26, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1227.0457]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The $10 million, 12-story life care luxury apartment house, "The Tamalpais," looks down over San Francisco Bay, from mostly corner apartments, each with its own balcony. The low circular building to the left houses dining room, kitchen and hospital facilities. The peaked roof auditorium has a 300-seat theater."
Date: 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al D’Agostino. D’Agostino joined the Merchant Marine in 1945 and received training in Brooklyn. Upon completion, he was assigned to the SS Monterey where he worked as a butcher. His first trip to the Pacific was transporting European troops, who were unhappy about the looming invasion of Japan. The war ended while the Monterey was in transit, and the soldiers returning home were a much happier bunch. Even more joyful was the reunion of families when the Monterey picked up war brides and their babies from all over the Pacific and brought them back to the States. He transferred to a Liberty ship that brought German war criminals back to the States from South America, although he believes that the majority of the passengers were actually concentration camp survivors. D’Agostino was discharged but was drafted again during the Korean War and served as a radio relay operator atop a mountain in dangerous and harsh winter conditions. When he was discharged a second time, he applied his kitchen experience and attended Cornell’s hotel school. D’Agostino became the director of food service for Trans World Airlines. Before retiring, he moved …
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: D'Agostino, Al
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012 transcript

Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al D’Agostino. D’Agostino joined the Merchant Marine in 1945 and received training in Brooklyn. Upon completion, he was assigned to the SS Monterey where he worked as a butcher. His first trip to the Pacific was transporting European troops, who were unhappy about the looming invasion of Japan. The war ended while the Monterey was in transit, and the soldiers returning home were a much happier bunch. Even more joyful was the reunion of families when the Monterey picked up war brides and their babies from all over the Pacific and brought them back to the States. He transferred to a Liberty ship that brought German war criminals back to the States from South America, although he believes that the majority of the passengers were actually concentration camp survivors. D’Agostino was discharged but was drafted again during the Korean War and served as a radio relay operator atop a mountain in dangerous and harsh winter conditions. When he was discharged a second time, he applied his kitchen experience and attended Cornell’s hotel school. D’Agostino became the director of food service for Trans World Airlines. Before retiring, he moved …
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: D'Agostino, Al
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Coso Quicksilver District, Inyo County, California (open access)

The Coso Quicksilver District, Inyo County, California

From abstract: The Coso quicksilver district, which is in the Coso Range, Inyo County, Calif., produced 231 flasks of quicksilver between 1935 and 1939. The quicksilver mineral, cinnabar, was not recognized in the district until 1929, although the hot springs near the deposits have been known since about 1875...The granitic rock on which much of the sinter rests is considerably altered. The cinnabar was deposited as films and grains in open spaces in the sinter, during one stage in a sequence of hot spring activities that still continues. The amount of sinter in the district is estimated to be about 1,800,000 tons. Although the greater part of this does not contain much cinnabar, the total quantity of such material is large enough to be of interest as a low-grade ore.
Date: 1943
Creator: Ross, Clyde P. & Yates, Robert G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
California: basic data for thermal springs and wells as recorded in GEOTHERM. Part A (open access)

California: basic data for thermal springs and wells as recorded in GEOTHERM. Part A

This GEOTHERM sample file contains 1535 records for California. Three computer-generated indexes give one line summaries of each GEOTHERM record. Each index is sorted by different variables to assist in locating geothermal records describing specific sites. 7 refs. (ACR)
Date: July 1, 1983
Creator: Bliss, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on Applicability of Residential Ventilation Standards in California (open access)

Report on Applicability of Residential Ventilation Standards in California

The California Energy Commission is considering updating its requirements for residential ventilation in the next round of its energy code, known as ''Title 24''. This report contains recommendations for potential changes to the code. These recommendations must be further developed into specific wording before they can be formally considered. Residential ventilation standards always address local and whole-house ventilation rates and some basic source control requirements, but there are many interactions with building systems that must also be considered. McKone and Sherman [8] laid out a set of additional issues that should be addressed before any specific changes to the code should be made. Those key issues included the following: Adventitious Air Flow; Air Distribution; Filtration and Air Cleaning; Occupant Acceptability and Control; Outdoor Air; Peak Demand; Unusual Sources and High-Polluting Events; and Window Operation. McWilliams and Sherman reviewed the literature on residential ventilation and in particular these key issues. They also reviewed codes, standards and guidelines relevant to residential ventilation. That literature serves as the technical basis for this report.
Date: June 1, 2005
Creator: Sherman, Max H. & McWilliam, Jennifer A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
California-ko Ostatuak: a History of California's Basque Hotels (open access)

California-ko Ostatuak: a History of California's Basque Hotels

The history of California's Basque boardinghouses, or ostatuak, is the subject of this dissertation. To date, scholarly literature on ethnic boardinghouses is minimal and even less has been written on the Basque "hotels" of the American West. As a result, conclusions in this study rely upon interviews, census records, local directories, early maps, and newspapers. The first Basque boardinghouses in the United States appeared in California in the decade following the gold rush and tended to be outposts along travel routes used by Basque miners and sheepmen. As more Basques migrated to the United States, clusters of ostatuak sprang up in communities where Basque colonies had formed, particularly in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the late nineteenth century. In the years between 1890 and 1940, the ostatuak reached their zenith as Basques spread throughout the state and took their boardinghouses with them. This study outlines the earliest appearances of the Basque ostatuak, charts their expansion, and describes their present state of demise. The role of the ostatuak within Basque-American culture and a description of how they operated is another important aspect of this dissertation. Information from interviews supports the claim that the ostatua was the most important social institution …
Date: May 1988
Creator: Echeverría, Jerónima, 1946-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bucket-Drilling the Coso Mercury Deposit, Inyo County, California (open access)

Bucket-Drilling the Coso Mercury Deposit, Inyo County, California

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines on the Coso mercury deposits of Inyo County, and development of the bucket drill for obtaining samples. Descriptions of the physical features of the deposits are listed. This report includes tables, maps, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: March 1948
Creator: Dupuy, Leon W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

In God's hands: a posthumous autobiography of Stephen Lloyd Smith

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
A portion of missionary Stephen Lloyd Smith's unpublished autobiography, "In God's Hands," depicting the experience of his family as civilian internees of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.
Date: May 1, 2001
Creator: Smith, Stephan Lloyd, 1893-1983 & Smith, Donald P., 1922-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Western Outlook. (San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 21, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1915 (open access)

The Western Outlook. (San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 21, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1915

Weekly African-American newspaper published in Oakland, California that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 22, 1915
Creator: Francis, Joseph S. & Derrick, J. Lincoln
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Restoration and Extension of Federal Forts in the Southwest from 1865 to 1885 (open access)

Restoration and Extension of Federal Forts in the Southwest from 1865 to 1885

This thesis is an attempt to portray the part the forts of the Southwest had in developing the Federal Indian Policy in that region from 1865 to 1885.
Date: August 1941
Creator: Bennett, Alice Bell
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Margaret Gillooly, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Margaret Gillooly, a civilian internee of the Japanese in WWII from San Francisco, California. Gillooly discusses her family's move to the Philippines in 1938, schooling, the start of war and the Japanese invasion, staying in Cebu City, her parents' escape from Manila and surviving a sinking in Manila Bay, Japanese occupation of Cebu, being moved to Manila, various experiences surviving internment at Santo Tomas Prison Camp, bombings, the American invasion and liberation, a Japanese counterattack and siege, emotional and mental impacts, and evacuation.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Gillooly, Margaret
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rural Planning: The Social Aspects of Recreation Places. (open access)

Rural Planning: The Social Aspects of Recreation Places.

Describes the trend toward establishing planned recreation areas in rural communities, and the economic and social benefits they provide to farmers.
Date: 1924
Creator: Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mary Louise Mujica, February 15, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mary Louise Mujica, February 15, 1984

Interview with Mary Louise Mujica regarding her experiences growing up in Basque Country, speaking the Basque language and learning English, working at Bastanchury Ranch and the conditions there, Basque traditions such as dances, and her life and family in America.
Date: February 15, 1984
Creator: Echeverria, Jeri & Mujica, Mary Louise
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.), Ed. 1 Saturday, March 20, 1915 (open access)

Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.), Ed. 1 Saturday, March 20, 1915

Weekly African-American newspaper from Oakland, California that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 20, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.), Ed. 1 Saturday, March 27, 1915 (open access)

Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.), Ed. 1 Saturday, March 27, 1915

Weekly African-American newspaper from Oakland, California that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 27, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Pushing The Limits] (open access)

[Clipping: Pushing The Limits]

Newspaper clipping of an article about Alma Jeschien, a WASP member, working as an air-show pilot. The articles includes personal stories from her experiences a pilot, and a photograph of Jeschien standing next to a small propeller on a tarmac. On the back of the clipping are a few articles, letters to the editor, and a multi-panel political cartoon.
Date: September 8, 1992
Creator: Pisano, Marina
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History