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[Letter from I. H. Kempner, III to Vivian Carter, May 17, 1971]
Letter from I. H. Kempner, III to Vivian Carter discussing audited statements to be sent to Mineral Wells.
Date:
May 17, 1971
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac Herbert, III
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd to Thomas L. James, January 7, 1954]
Letter from Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd to Thomas L. James discussing the status of a Mitchell well and further drilling.
Date:
January 7, 1954
Creator:
Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. F. Morton to Thos. L. James, December 21, 1953]
Letter from R. F. Morton to Thos. L. James discussing the oil lease for Taylor Oil and Gas Company in Starr County.
Date:
December 21, 1953
Creator:
Morton, R. F.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 22, 1919
Creator:
Jackson, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from MacDonald Lynch to Harris Kempner, May 13, 1971]
Letter from MacDonald Lynch to H. L. Kempner requesting audits for 1970.
Date:
May 13, 1971
Creator:
Lynch, MacDonald
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to T. L. James, September 3, 1948]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to Thos. L. James inquiring into if the Sugarland Industries' Grocery department can obtain a specific brand of asparagus.
Date:
September 3, 1948
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 30, 1920
Creator:
Jackson, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 19, 1919
Creator:
Jackson, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 26,1955
Annual journal of the Texas Archeological Society documenting research and findings of members as well as activities of the organization.
Date:
1955
Creator:
Texas Archeological Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 8, 1919
Creator:
Jackson, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 81, July 1977 - April, 1978
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 492.
Date:
1977/1978
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1884
Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 22, 1884
Creator:
Walford, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Čechoslovák (Rosenberg, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 14, 1919
Weekly Czech language newspaper from Rosenberg, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 14, 1919
Creator:
Kužel, Ant.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Kinch Hillyer Map and Advertisement]
Map and advertisement for Kinch Hillyer oil land. The map features the location of the plots of land. The advertisement discusses the location, price, and demand of the land. Fred Hermann is mentioned as a local representative in St. Louis, Missouri.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 29, 1919
Creator:
Jackson, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer
This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date:
June 2012
Creator:
Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 15, 1917
Creator:
Locke, T. G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to Sam F. Bashara, March 26, 1953]
Letter from Thomas L. James to Sam F. Bashara discussing Sam F. Bashara's lease and his efforts to maintain the lease through the commencement of new drilling. James doesn't have enough information to terminate Bashara's lease, but he also doesn't have enough information to cease Sugarland Industries' inquiry into the lease.
Date:
March 26, 1953
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oil Lease Report, January 1955]
Oil lease report covering Sam F. Bashara's land lease.
Date:
January 1955
Creator:
Sugarland Industries
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Imperial Sugar Company Memorandum]
Imperial Sugar Company memorandum covering proposed reservations, covenants, and restrictions to be recorded for Mayfield Park subdivision.
Date:
19XX
Creator:
Imperial Sugar Company
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Resources of Fort Bend County, Texas
Report on groundwater resources in Fort Bend County, Texas.
Date:
August 1972
Creator:
Wesselman, J. B. (John B.), 1927-
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Sugar Land, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 5, 1919
Creator:
Jackson, A. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History