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An Archeological Survey of the Proposed 750 Acre Joseph S. And Lucie H. Cullinan Park, Fort Bend County, Texas (open access)

An Archeological Survey of the Proposed 750 Acre Joseph S. And Lucie H. Cullinan Park, Fort Bend County, Texas

Photocopy of a report on an archeological survey of the proposed Joseph S. and Lucie H. Cullinan Park in Fort Bend County, Texas conducted in 1991. The survey found numerous prehistoric and historic sites indicating intense utilization from Texas prehistory into the early twentieth century. The final page of the document is an invoice listing the costs of retrieving and copying the report billed to Reginald Moore by the Texas Historical Commission Archeological Division.
Date: 2015
Creator: Moore Archeological Consulting
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 26,1955 (open access)

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
Čechoslovák  (Rosenberg, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 14, 1919 (open access)

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
Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880 (open access)

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
Ground-Water Resources of Fort Bend County, Texas (open access)

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
Groundwater Resources of Fort Bend County, Texas (open access)

Groundwater Resources of Fort Bend County, Texas

Report documenting the collection, compilation, and analysis of data related to ground water resources of Fort Bend County, Texas, including chemical qualities, water levels, and other characteristics.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Wesselman, J. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Imperial Sugar Company Memorandum] (open access)

[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
[Kempner Scrapbook 1948-1951] (open access)

[Kempner Scrapbook 1948-1951]

Scrapbook documenting Kempner family starting with newspaper clipping of the death of Mrs. H. Kempner. It includes newspaper clippings, detail wedding lists, letterhead, and other ephemera.
Date: 1946~/1951~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Kinch Hillyer Map and Advertisement] (open access)

[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
[Letter from Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd to Thomas L. James, January 7, 1954] (open access)

[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 Homer L. Bruce to I. H. Kempner, December 8, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Homer L. Bruce to I. H. Kempner, December 8, 1955]

Letter from Homer L. Bruce to I. H. Kempner discussing various fees and retainers.
Date: December 8, 1955
Creator: Bruce, Homer L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner, III to Vivian Carter, May 17, 1971] (open access)

[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 I. H. Kempner to T. L. James, September 3, 1948] (open access)

[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
[Letter from MacDonald Lynch to Harris Kempner, May 13, 1971] (open access)

[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 Sugarland Industries, Inc. to Stockholders, February 18, 1964] (open access)

[Letter from Sugarland Industries, Inc. to Stockholders, February 18, 1964]

Letter from from Sugarland Industries, Inc. to stockholders enclosing the balance sheets and income and expense statements of owned and subsidiary companies of Sugarland Industries, Inc. The letter also details the history of the Belknap Reality Company, land sales made by Sugarland Industries during the year 1963, and dividends paid to stockholders of the various companies.
Date: {1963-12-31,1964-02-18}
Creator: Sugarland Industries, Incorporated
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. F. Morton to Thos. L. James, December 21, 1953] (open access)

[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
[Letter from Thomas L. James to Sam F. Bashara, March 26, 1953] (open access)

[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
[Letter from Thomas Leroy James to Isaac Herbert Kempner, September 26, 1960] (open access)

[Letter from Thomas Leroy James to Isaac Herbert Kempner, September 26, 1960]

Letter from Thomas Leroy James to Isaac Herbert Kempner discussing the Aldine Property.
Date: September 27, 1960
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1884 (open access)

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
The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1884 (open access)

The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 26, 1884
Creator: Walford, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1885 (open access)

The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1885

Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 13, 1885
Creator: Walford, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1885 (open access)

The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1885

Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 27, 1885
Creator: Walford, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1885 (open access)

The Nation. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1885

Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 6, 1885
Creator: Walford, J. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Oil Lease Report, January 1955] (open access)

[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