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[Historic Marker Application: Blackwell School]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Blackwell School, in Marfa, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date:
February 8, 2011
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Hunter Gymnasium]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Hunter Gymnasium, in Marfa, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date:
March 14, 2011
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Trading Card: Texas Brown Tarantula]
Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Fort Leaton State Historic Site, depicting a close-up image of the face of a tarantula. The back of the card contains information about tarantulas.
Date:
2011
Creator:
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Trading Card: El Solitario]
Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Big Bend Ranch State Park, depicting an aerial view of the Solitario formation. The back of the card contains information about the formation and the area.
Date:
2011
Creator:
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Brite's of Marfa, Texas
This is a research paper written by Josephine Aguilor for an American History Class at Marfa High School on January 13, 1964. It contains biographical information about the Brite family, describing their home and their charitable acts in Marfa, Texas.
Date:
January 13, 1964
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Brite Ranch Raid
This is a collection of pages and objects related to an entry by Clint W. White for the Alpine History Fair in Marfa, Texas in March 1984. Accompanying the research paper are three "History Day" judges' rating cards, a participant ribbon, and a certificate. The paper mentions a model of the ranch headquarters that accompanied this report. as well. Three ia a hand-written paper telling about the author's sources of information about the ranch. The three-page typed report tells the story of the raid on the Brite Ranch in 1917.
Date:
March 5, 1984
Creator:
White, Clint W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
School Picture
Description of a photograph in a research paper. These pages describe a school room at a private Catholic school in Marfa, Texas in 1905 and mentions members of the Lujan family that attended the school.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Triesitas
Description of a photograph of the Society of Triesitas in Marfa, Texas. This page names the young girls and women in this organization.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
St. Mary's Catholic Church in Marfa, Texas
Research paper written by Helen Robinson Mitchell. The paper is about the history of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Marfa, Texas.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Mitchell, Helen Robinson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Borunda Family
Part of a Marfa High School research paper about the Borunda family. The page describes a photo of Albino and Andre Gonzales, sisters of Tonia Borunda.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carolina Borunda
Portionof a research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School in 1975. It describes three photographs of Carolina Palomo Bondura. The information came from her daughter, Carolina Borunda Humphries.
Date:
1975
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Love, Laughter, and Enchiladas: A History of The Old Borunda Cafe and the Women Who Made it Famous
Research paper written by Lupe A. Lujan for a history class at Marfa High School in 1965. Tells the story of the Old Borunda Cafe and "the women who gave their lives for it".
Date:
1965
Creator:
Lujan, Lupe J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Research Theme - The Old Borunda Cafe
Research paper written by Elida Acota for a history class at Marfa High School in 1964. It is a biography about Carolina Palomo Borunda.
Date:
1964
Creator:
Acosta, Elida
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Borunda Family
Report written for a Marfa High School history class by Paul Spitzer on December 7, 1970. The paper briefly tells the story of Carolina Palomo and Cipriano Borunda. Carolina ran the Old Borunda Cafe. It covers their childhoods, their relocation to Marfa with their families, their marriage, their businesses, and their deaths. It includes a hand-drawn family tree.
Date:
December 7, 1970
Creator:
Spitzer, Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Old Borunda Cafe
Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School in January 1965. It contains biographical information about Carolina Palomo Borunda and Carolina Borunda Humphries. Both of these womwn ran the Old Borunda Cafe.
Date:
January 1965
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Old Borunda Cafe
Research paper written by Pancho Borunda about the Old Borunda Cafe, the best Mexican restaurant in West Texas. He tells the history of the business and describes two photgraphs of women working in the kitchen. This paper was for a history class at Marfa High School in December 1968.
Date:
1968
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Francisco Borunda and Jose Munoz on Horseback
Paper describing a photograph of Francisco Borunda and Jose Minoz outside of the Post Office in Marfa. They rode into town once a week for their mail.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
U.S. Border Patrol
Report and description of photographs of the personnel and activities at the U.S. Border Patrol headquarters in Marfa, Texas. This was a report by John Stevens for a American History class at Marfa High School in 1968.
Date:
1968
Creator:
Stevens, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hans Briam
Research paper written by Martha Dempsey for a class at Marfa High School in 1972. The paper is about the ancestors and life of Hans Briam. He was a merchant in San Antonio and Marfa, Texas in the early twentieth century. His slogan was, "I never sleep".
Date:
1972
Creator:
Dempsey, Martha
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Businesses in Marfa]
Report by Glenn Garcia for an American History class at marfa High School in January 1974. It is about businesses in Marfa, Texas based on his interviews with Jesusita Brito of Chuy's Place and Robert Martinez of Sandy's Grocery Store.
Date:
January 14, 1974
Creator:
Garcia, Glenn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Businesses in Marfa]
Report by Martha Sue Horn for an American History class at marfa High School in January 1974. It is about businesses in Marfa, Texas based on her interviews with business owners and employees at Eddie Pierce Motors, Inc., the Marfa Public Library, the Nu-Way Grocery Store, Colomo's Handy Store and Genevieve's Beauty Shop.
Date:
January 10, 1974
Creator:
Horn, Martha Sue
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Area Businesses
Report by Eddie, Villarreal for an American History class at Marfa High School. It is about businesses in Marfa, Texas based on his interviews with business owners and employees at Marfa Manufacturing Company and Casner Motor Company
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Villarreal, Eddie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funeral Notice for L.C. Brite
Funeral notice for Lucas Charles Brite, whose funeral was held at the First Christian Church on Friday, September 5, 1941 at 3 pm.
Date:
September 5, 1941
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Program for L.C. Brite's Birthday Dinner 1941
Printed program for a birthday dinner for L.C. Brite at the First Christian Church in Marfa, Texas on August 3, 1941. It was his last birthday before he passed away on September 4, 1941. The program included an invocation, dinner, music sung by the choir and by the guests, letters and wires from friends, tributes, and a benediction.
Date:
August 3, 1941
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History