[Letter from Jimmy Carter to Jesse Fletcher - April 19, 1978] (open access)

[Letter from Jimmy Carter to Jesse Fletcher - April 19, 1978]

Copy negative of letter of congratulations on inauguration as twelfth President of Hardin-Simmons University to Dr. Jesse Fletcher from President Jimmy Carter on April 19, 1978.
Date: April 19, 1978
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Abilene Hall]

Photograph of the Abilene Hall at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. The photograph shows the three-story brick and stone building from across a parking lot filled with parked cars.
Date: April 1978
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Class of 1919]

Group photograph of a few members of the Simmons College class of 1919 at Founder’s Day in 1969. A typed note included with the photo identifies those pictured and one woman who was at the ceremony but not in the picture. Also, the note announces that all of the known living members of the class of 1919 with receive medallions in person or by mail. Standing, left to right: Rev. John W. Williams, Dr. D. M. Wiggins, Dr. Roy McCulloch, Mr. Carroll Spangler, and Wilbur Watson Wimberly. Seated, left to right: Mrs. E. D. Sansing (Isora Ford), Mrs. W. C. Smith (Lorah Amelia Branch), and Miss Theo Muir.
Date: April 18, 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Rodeo Clown]

Photograph of a rodeo clown, Danny Green, dodging a stampeding bull in the Seattle King Dome rodeo ring. Typed note in the bottom margin reads, “Rodeo clown at HSU … Danny Green of Prosser, Wash., will be in Abilene as clown for the HSU Intercollegiate Rodeo, April 19-21.”
Date: [1982-04-19..1982-04-21]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Students with Cow]

Photograph of three male Hardin-Simmons University students standing next to a cow that has a hand lettered sign attached to its belly. The sign reads, “[sic] The Cowboys will win tonight! And this is no bull!”
Date: April 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History