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[Two Biographical Sketches of Eleanor Brown] (open access)

[Two Biographical Sketches of Eleanor Brown]

Document containing two biographical sketches of Eleanor Brown, including details about her interest in aviation, service in the WASP organization, career, and personal life.
Date: 1999~
Creator: Brown, Eleanor McLernon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
System: The UNT Digital Library
[A Map Taken From a Mathematics Work Book] (open access)

[A Map Taken From a Mathematics Work Book]

A Mercator Projection of a map including Austin, San Antonio, Laredo, Victoria, and Corpus Christi on a grid with every line being 15 minutes.The magnetic variation is 10 degrees east, and the scale is 1:2,027,520.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 30, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 30, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor for work in Tarrant County (Texas) dated March 30, 1943, for work performed from March 21-26, 1943.
Date: March 30, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clyde Jones, April 5, 1999 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clyde Jones, April 5, 1999

Interview with Clyde Jones, former part-owner of Kerrville's first radio station, KERV, from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Jones discusses how he came to the area and his involvement with radio station, as well as some of the challenges he and his crew encountered. He also talks about his work with the Mental Health and Retardation Center at the Kerrville State Hospital. Mr. Jones briefly discusses his band, The Poverty Playboys.
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Jones, Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, December 16, 2010 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, December 16, 2010

Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, the descendant of a ranching family in Kimble County, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Lutz discusses her ranching family, meeting her husband, Warren Wiggins, who was later killed in the Philippines during World War II, meeting her second husband who had been in Wiggins's company in the Philippines, and the Dodge dealership her second husband ran.
Date: March 23, 1918
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Heffington, Susan Wiggins & Lutz, Courtney Sieker Wiggins
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Ethel Baker Starkey, March 28, 2013 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Ethel Baker Starkey, March 28, 2013

Interview with Ethel Baker Starkey, whose husband's ancestors were Texas Hill Country settlers, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Starkey discusses her husband's family history. She also talks about coming to Kerrville for a job with her family.
Date: March 28, 2013
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Starkey, Ethel Baker
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999

Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, vice-chair of the Kerr County Historical Commission from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Snodgrass talks about growing up on a primitive ranch, struggling to survive during the Depression, meeting and marrying her husband, their family, their involvement with music, and her efforts to preserve the history of Kerr County. She also briefly discusses the honors and awards her volunteer work has earned her. Pages 2-13 include a written statement by Miles Abernathy Lowrence, Clarabelle's maternal great-uncle.
Date: September 25, 1999
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Women Physicians (open access)

Texas Women Physicians

Computer printout of page 52 of a list of Texas Women Physicians, in alphabetical order, including: Minnie Carrie O'Brien, Florence Mae, Olmsted, May Owen, Minnie Ola Parrish, and Elizabeth Agnes Paterson. Includes information about the physicians' birth, death, education, and place of practice, as well as citations of the references from which the info was taken.
Date: September 9, 1993
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Release: Third Annual Texas Women's Hall of Fame, July 28, 1986] (open access)

[News Release: Third Annual Texas Women's Hall of Fame, July 28, 1986]

News release from the office of Texas governor Mark White, announcing the selection of thirteen women for the Third Annual Texas Women's Hall of Fame. The women include: Mary Lavinia Griffith, Jody Conradt, Mary Kay Ash, Ada Simond, Caro Crawford Brown, Wilhelmina Ruth Fitzgerald Delco, Dr. May Owen, Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky, Margaret Cousins, Anne Legendre Armstrong, Alicia R. Chacon, and Frances E. Goff. The release includes information about the induction ceremony, details about each of the inductees, and information about how to get tickets to the ceremony.
Date: July 28, 1986
Creator: Governor's Office
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsflash from KCOR, June 15, 1948] (open access)

Newsflash from KCOR, June 15, 1948]

Newsflash from KCOR radio station, reporting on news from Austin, Texas, from Raoul A. Cortez, President of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Judge Ben H. Rice, Jr., from the Federal Court in Austin, has ordered a statewide ban on segregation of Mexican-American children in Texas schools, stating that the practice is unconstitutional and violates the 14th Amendment.
Date: June 15, 1948
Creator: KCOR
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of memorandum from Elias R. Wightman, [1837?]] (open access)

[Transcript of memorandum from Elias R. Wightman, [1837?]]

Copy of transcript for a memorandum from Elias R. Wightman concerning lands owned by Stephen F. Austin and James E. B. Austin.
Date: 1837?
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Tanaguchi. Tanaguchi was a Japanese-American internee at the Gila River Camp in Arizona during World War II. At 19 years old, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tanaguchi became a part of the internment program of the War Relocation Authority. He provides detail of life growing up in Stockton, California before December 7, 1941 and after, and experiences of bigotry and racism among his peers. He provides detail of his father being in the Justice Department internment group. He served as the dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Rice University in Houston. He designed an addition to the Nimitz Museum.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Tanaguchi, Alan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Reunion Information] (open access)

[Reunion Information]

Page with information about lodging, transportation, cost, and tour information for the Bartlesville, Oklahoma WASP reunion, as well as other WASP regional news.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Ike and Alice Delery Walton, March 15, 2008 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Ike and Alice Delery Walton, March 15, 2008

Interview with John Ike Walton, a musician who has been inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame, from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Walton talks about his music career, briefly talks about music and LSD, and music culture in general. Mr. Walton's wife, Alice Delery Walton is present for the interview and inserts comments from time to time.
Date: March 15, 2008
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Walton, John Ike & Walton, Alice Delery
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Austin/San Antonio Story (open access)

The Austin/San Antonio Story

The purpose of this presentation is to examine the potential of Austin and San Antonio, Texas as locations for making sound real estate investments. It will review the growth of these cities and the reasons for their growth, provide a current report on activity in various segments of the commercial real estate field, and will make some projections for investment opportunities in each of these segments of the marketplace.
Date: 197X
Creator: James W. Rouse & Company, Incorporated
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Angela Hale, November 20, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Angela Hale, November 20, 2014

Interview with Angela Hale, managing partner of Red Media Group in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her career in television news, political communication strategy, and ultimately starting her own business.
Date: November 20, 2014
Creator: Sigman, Ashlea
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 19, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 19, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor for work in Bexar County from March 1-18, 1943. The itinerary is dated March 19, 1943.
Date: March 19, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Karen and Clark Klein, November 16, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Karen and Clark Klein, November 16, 2016

Transcript of an interview with Karen and Clark Klein. Karen attended Notre Dame Catholic School in Kerrville and graduated from Tivy High School before completed a course at Durham Business College. She worked at Wool and Mohair Warehouse in Ingram before marrying Clark in 1962. Clark also attended Notre Dame School and Tivy where the couple met. He served in the Army for three years, worked briefly the postal services, and enlisted again in the National Guard. He served until 1982 and achieved the rank of Command Sergeant Major. The couple had three children and lived in San Antonio, Austin for ten years, before moving back to Kerrville. Several photos follow the transcript text.
Date: November 16, 2016
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Klein, Karen Margaret Herzog & Klein, Clark Dennis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Handiworks: Lone Star artisans use hands --as well as hearts and souls-- to meld craft into art., or Handmade Texas: Lone Star artisans use hands --as well as hearts and souls-- to meld craft into art. (open access)

Handiworks: Lone Star artisans use hands --as well as hearts and souls-- to meld craft into art., or Handmade Texas: Lone Star artisans use hands --as well as hearts and souls-- to meld craft into art.

Draft of an article about Texas artisans that was published in Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 1999
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Music Festivals research] (open access)

[Music Festivals research]

Research about music festivals in 2005 compiled for an article that was published in the December 2004 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2004-12~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Panaderias: Traditional Mexican bakeries (open access)

Panaderias: Traditional Mexican bakeries

Text for an article about traditional Mexican bakeries that was published in the November 1994 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 1994-11~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
[WWH: Panaderias] (open access)

[WWH: Panaderias]

Text about traditional Mexican bakeries that was published in the "When..." section of a November 1994 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1994-11~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library