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El Fenix Cafe (open access)

El Fenix Cafe

The El Fenix Cafe menu contains the names and prices of their dishes, desserts, and beverages. The restaurant offered cocktails and relishes, salads, sandwiches, eggs and omelettes, soups, chicken and steak dinners, nonalcoholic beverages, wines, beer, fish, and a variety of Mexican dishes. The Special Mexican Dinner cost $1.25 at the time of this menu. A poem by James J. Metcalfe is written on the back of the menu.
Date: 1951~
Creator: El Fenix Cafe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1084 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1084

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The gross receipts tax liability of United Gas Pipe Line Company by virtue of recent extension of the corporate limits of Dallas and Houston.
Date: August 17, 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Press statement and telegram from Ed Idar, Jr., to E. M. Dealey - 1951] (open access)

[Press statement and telegram from Ed Idar, Jr., to E. M. Dealey - 1951]

Onionskin carbon copy of press statement and telegram from Ed Idar, Jr., State Chairman, American GI Forum of Texas, to E. M. Dealey, Publisher of the Dallas Morning News, with handwritten date of 1951. This press release is a response to a story by Roy Rody in the October 19, 1951 issue of the Dallas Morning News regarding the bracero program and workers.
Date: 1951
Creator: Idar, Eduardo, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1188 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1188

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Necessity for food supplies for the county jail to be purchased by the county purchasing agent.
Date: June 13, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1315 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1315

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of Dallas County Road Law.
Date: October 12, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-653 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-653

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the National Fashions Association, in supplying models to salesmen, in connection with its operation of the Merchandise Mart in Dallas, Texas, would be required to obtain an employment agency license under Article 5221a-6, Vernon's Civil Statutes, the Texas Private Employment Agency Law.
Date: June 25, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-86 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-86

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not the monies collected by the Chief Probation Officer of Dallas County, Texas, for child support in divorce cases under orders of the District Court should be deposited with the County Treasurer upon receipt of the same.
Date: April 5, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-254 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-254

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Location of Juvenile Court in and for Dallas County, Texas, created by House Bill No. 940, Acts 55th Legislature, Regular Session, Chapter 511, at page 1490.
Date: September 5, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-283 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-283

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the employees of the Dallas City-County Department of Public Welfare be brought into the County's Retirement System?
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-341 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-341

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not the County of Dallas Child Support Clearing Account Funds and the County of Dallas Juvenile Department, Child Support Division Holding Account Funds are secured under the bond of the County depository banks when deposited with said banks without first passing through the hands of the County Treasurer.
Date: December 31, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-403 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-403

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legal authority for appointment of Purchasing Agent of Dallas County, Texas.
Date: March 27, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: October 5, 1953] (open access)

[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: October 5, 1953]

Minutes from the Fall 1953 meeting of the Texas Surgical Society, held in Dallas, Texas. Included is a list of members and guests present, papers that were read and discussed, and other events during the meeting, as well as a secretary's report.
Date: October 5, 1953
Creator: Hartman, Albert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: April 3, 1950] (open access)

[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: April 3, 1950]

Minutes from the Spring 1950 meeting of the Texas Surgical Society, held in Dallas, Texas. Included is a list of members and guests present, papers that were read and discussed, and other events during the meeting, as well as a treasurer's report.
Date: April 3, 1950
Creator: Blocker, T. G., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: April 1, 1957] (open access)

[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: April 1, 1957]

Minutes from the April 1957 meeting of the Texas Surgical Society, held in Dallas, Texas. Included is a list of members present, papers that were read and discussed, and other events during the meeting, as well as a secretary's report and resolution.
Date: April 1, 1957
Creator: Brindley, G. V., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[State Fair of Texas Admission Ticket] (open access)

[State Fair of Texas Admission Ticket]

A ticket to the State Fair of Texas, for one high school teacher, valid on Friday, October 22, 1954. The ticket is signed by the president and executive vice president of the fair. The ticket has a tear down the middle, and the ticket is held together by tape.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Statement of Borrowings, April 19, 1955] (open access)

[Statement of Borrowings, April 19, 1955]

Statement on borrowings from banks by Imperial Sugar Company.
Date: April 19, 1955
Creator: Imperial Sugar Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Baylor Hospital Nursing Certificate] (open access)

[Baylor Hospital Nursing Certificate]

Certificate from the Baylor School of Anesthesia at Baylor University Hospital stating that Charlyne Creger completed the curricula for Nursing Anesthesia.
Date: January 31, 1955
Creator: Baylor University Hospital
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Family of Man [Invitation] (open access)

The Family of Man [Invitation]

Invitation from the exhibition, "The Family of Man," October 7–December 4, 1955, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: 1955
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paintings for Young Collections - 1955 [Holiday Show Checklist] (open access)

Paintings for Young Collections - 1955 [Holiday Show Checklist]

Checklist from the exhibition, "Young Collections–Holiday Show," November 20, 1955–January 1, 1956, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: 1955
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box List for:  In Memoriam (open access)

Box List for: In Memoriam

Checklist of artworks in the exhibition, "In Memoriam: 12 American Artists Who Died in the Past 12 Years," January 15–February 6, 1956, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: 1956
Creator: The American Federation of Arts
System: The Portal to Texas History
"American Craftsmen" Catalogue List (open access)

"American Craftsmen" Catalogue List

Checklist of artists and artworks in the exhibition, "American Craftsman," February 19–March 11, 1956, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes sales prices.
Date: 1956
Creator: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paintings from Young Collections, Spring, 1957 (open access)

Paintings from Young Collections, Spring, 1957

Checklist of artists and artworks in the the exhibition, "Young Collections," March 30–April 21, 1957, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: 1957
Creator: [Dallas Museum of Fine Arts]
System: The Portal to Texas History
28th Annual Dallas County Exhibition - 1957 [Fact Sheet] (open access)

28th Annual Dallas County Exhibition - 1957 [Fact Sheet]

List of prizes, awards, and participants in the 28th Annual Dallas County Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, April 10–May 12, 1957, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: 1957
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Checklist for the Chrysler Collection Exhibition of Dutch, Flemish, and German Painting, October 5–31, 1957] (open access)

[Checklist for the Chrysler Collection Exhibition of Dutch, Flemish, and German Painting, October 5–31, 1957]

List of artists and artworks in the exhibition, "Chrysler Collection Exhibition of Dutch, Flemish, and German Painting," October 5–31, 1957, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Note on page 1 reads: "most recent list"
Date: 1957
Creator: [Dallas Museum of Fine Arts]
System: The Portal to Texas History