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Backwoods to Border
Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 47, July 1943 - April, 1944
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 447.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945
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 607.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946
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 679.
Date:
1946
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4666
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What are the maximum salaries that can legally be paid to the County Officers of Brazoria County?
Date:
January 15, 1942
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7123
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Commissioners' Court of Brazoria County may appoint a Deputy Tax Assessor-Collector of said county as "Tax Valuation Expert"; and related matters.
Date:
March 12, 1946
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5789
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Salaries of the county officials of Brazoria County and their deputies.
Date:
January 7, 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5814
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Sheriff of Brazoria County can legally pay his first assistant $2,000 per enum under Section 2 of Article 3902, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes.
Date:
January 25, 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Plan for Improving the Health, Physical Education, and Intramural Program for Boys in West Columbia High School
The purpose of this study is to develop plans for a program in health education, physical education and intramural sports for boys in the West Columbia High School, West Columbia, Texas.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Long, Lewis B.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Sam the Builder]
(back of photo) Sam the Builder - Freeport, TX. - Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date:
1945
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Mrs. Whitlock to Mrs. Kempner, December 12, 1944]
Telegram from Mrs. Whitlock to Mrs. Kempner requesting reports on the San Antonio, West Columbia, and Farwell units.
Date:
December 12, 1944
Creator:
Whitlock, Marion
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mrs. Kempner to Mrs. Perry, September 13, 1943]
Letter from Mrs. Kempner to Mrs. Perry offering assistance and requesting lists of her activities, officers, and other information.
Date:
September 13, 1943
Creator:
Kempner, Jeane Bertig
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to Raoul A. Cortez - 1948-10-06]
Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera, LULAC Regional Governor, to Raoul A. Cortez, President General of LULAC, dated October 6, 1948. This is a request for a charter for the El Campo LULAC men's Council. It also mentions organizing a council in Wharton County and discusses spreading LULAC councils into Jackson, Brazoria and Fort Bend Counties.
Date:
October 6, 1948
Creator:
Herrera, John J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3084
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What fund should the engineer employed by Brazoria County to construct and be maintain the public roads of said county be paid from?
Date:
February 20, 1941
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Document No. X by Manuel Urbina, October 7, 1947]
Report, titled Document No. X, on the community in Angleton, Texas, and efforts to convert Hispanic Americans.
Date:
October 7, 1947
Creator:
Urbina, Manuel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Manuel Urbina to Philip R. Brown - 1946-11-08]
Letter from Manuel Urbina to Philip R. Brown reporting on Urbina's progress with the congregation in Freeport, Texas. Urbina has met with some resistance in his work in the community, but he continues to reach out to his congregation.
Date:
November 8, 1946
Creator:
Urbina, Manuel
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1757
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Salaries of county commissioners of Brazoria County.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5941
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is the property of a church or a religious society that consists of vacant lots in no way connected with the mental place of religious worship of exclusive use for a dwelling place for the minister, but a future building site for said church, exempt from taxation?
Date:
1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mykawa Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:31680
Date:
1941
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jones Creek Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:31680
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Danbury Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:31680
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a rice field, poorly trained. Note rice field equipment. Land being prepared for rice production in April. TX-45, 071.
Date:
March 2, 1949
Creator:
Davis, David O.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from Frank K. Stevens, August 11, 1944]
Letter from Frank K. Stevens discussing campaign post cards he plans to send to the voters in Brazoria County.
Date:
August 11, 1944
Creator:
Stevens, Frank K.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Frank K. Stevens, August 12, 1944]
Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Frank K. Stevens discussing the campaign post cards the latter plans to send to the voters in Brazoria County.
Date:
August 12, 1944
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History