Music-Holder. (open access)

Music-Holder.

Patent for an improved music-holder. The music-holder is comprised of a base adapted to be secured to a music rest with a standard pivoted on the base. The standard is fixed with a spring-pressed shaft in order to press the book to the music stand.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: French, Clarence E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Illustrating the Transposition of Musical Scales (open access)

Device For Illustrating the Transposition of Musical Scales

Patent for an improvement in machines for transposing musical scales in which a marked and perforated original scale is run over the machine and automatically transported, with levers and rods to mark the sharps, flats, and other information.
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Neill, John, Frances
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[West Shady Grove Church Members]

Copy negative of a choir gathered around an organ in a grove of trees outside the West Shady Grove Church. The girls are dressed in white and hold bouquets. One of the women sits at the organ, and a man stands on either side of it.
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jacksonville's Big Jubilee]

Copy negative of a paper explaining Jacksonville's Golden Anniversary Celebration Song, titled "Jacksonville's Big Jubilee."
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Brass Band on Wagon]

Copy negative of a brass band on a wagon in Rusk.
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Around the Piano]

Copy negative of six women and one man posing around a grand piano. There are curtains on the windows and a picture behind the piano.
Date: [1980..1990]
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Brass Band on Wagon]

Copy negative of a brass band on a wagon in Rusk.
Date: November 19, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Straight Texas (open access)

Straight Texas

Volume of popular folklore of Texas, including tales about the origins of various cities and towns, personal anecdotes, songs, superstitions and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 341.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Straight Texas (open access)

Straight Texas

Volume of popular folklore of Texas, including tales about the origins of various cities and towns, personal anecdotes, songs, superstitions and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 341.
Date: 1966
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[First Presbyterian Church Orchestra]

Copy negative of the First Presbyterian Church orchestra outside the entrance of the church. A piano and the pianist, Jewel Newton Brown, occupy the center of the photograph, and three members of the orchestra are seated on either side of it. On the left, a woman holding a violin is seated between a man holding a violin and a man holding a clarinet. A woman sits to the immediate right of the piano. Next to her is a man holding a horn, and the man next to him holds an upright bass. A baritone horn sits atop the piano.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Golden Anniversary Song]

Copy negative of the lyrics to Jacksonville's Golden Anniversary song, entitled "Jacksonville's Big Jubilee," written by Reverend J. D. Aldredge.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[May Day Program]

Copy negative of a May Day celebration at the Alexander Collegiate Institute. Students stand and kneel in front of a building on campus. A pole can be seen in the background. To the left, men stand with their instruments.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jacksonville High Band]

Copy negative of the Jacksonville High School Band of 1937-38 performing in the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival parade. None of the band members have been identified.
Date: September 17, 1988
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jacksonville Orchestra]

Copy negative of an early Jacksonville Orchestra, in the home of W. A. Newton. Pictures hang on the walls; one of them is of Zelvin Newton. This photograph is behind the seated guitarist. A piano is behind the orchestra, on the right of the room. Several orchestra members hold guitars or banjos. On the left, Mr. W. A. Newton stands while Mrs. W. A. Newton is seated in front of him. In no order, the rest of the orchestra consists of Walter Newton, George "Pete" Newton, Mozell Newton, Janie May Newton, Jewel Newton, and Claude Shamblin.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Historian, Volume 58, Number 4, May 1998 (open access)

The Texas Historian, Volume 58, Number 4, May 1998

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: May 1998
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Commercial House Concerts/Listening Rooms in Texas (listed alphabetically by city) (open access)

Non-Commercial House Concerts/Listening Rooms in Texas (listed alphabetically by city)

List of non-commercial house concerts and listening rooms across Texas used as research for an article that was published in the February 1998 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 1998-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph: School Buildings]

Photographs of school buildings in Alto, Texas. The first (top) photo is a two-story brick building with a tower on the left side and a peaked roof; text on the photo says "High School. Alto, Tex." The second (bottom) photo is a two-story, square-shaped brick building with a flat roof.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WWH: Songwriter's Paradise] (open access)

[WWH: Songwriter's Paradise]

Text about house concerts and listening rooms across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a February 1998 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1998-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1970 (open access)

The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1970

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 19, 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 148, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1996 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 148, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1996

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 8, 1996
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alto Herald and The Wells News 'N Views (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1982 (open access)

The Alto Herald and The Wells News 'N Views (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1982

Weekly newspaper from Alto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 2, 1982
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1969 (open access)

The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1969

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 23, 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1966 (open access)

The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1966

Weekly newspaper from Alto, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 20, 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1978 (open access)

The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1978

Weekly newspaper from Alto, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 28, 1978
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History