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Annual Reception Bay View Club September 26, 1917 (open access)

Annual Reception Bay View Club September 26, 1917

Guest registry book for a reception at the Bay View Club in 1917; each page of the book contains the handwritten names of each person that was in attendance. Also included in the record is an envelope containing the ribbon that ties the booklet together.
Date: September 26, 1917
Creator: Bay View Club
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Auditorium Fund Ledger Carnegie Public Library (1917-1923)] (open access)

[Auditorium Fund Ledger Carnegie Public Library (1917-1923)]

A ledger containing the 1917-1923 financial information of the Carnegie Public Library's Auditorium Fund.
Date: 1917/1923
Creator: Carnegie Library Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brief history of Fort Worth Methodism (open access)

Brief history of Fort Worth Methodism

A short history of the Methodists in Fort Worth.
Date: 1917
Creator: Williams, W. Erskine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Abilene Christian College, 1916-1917 (open access)

Catalog of Abilene Christian College, 1916-1917

Catalog describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Abilene Christian College
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Daniel Baker College, 1916-1917 (open access)

Catalog of Daniel Baker College, 1916-1917

Catalog describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Daniel Baker College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: June 1917
Creator: Daniel Baker College (Brownwood, Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of North Texas State Normal College: January 1917 (open access)

Catalog of North Texas State Normal College: January 1917

Catalog for North Texas State College includes information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: January 1917
Creator: North Texas State Normal College
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of North Texas State Normal College: July 1917 (open access)

Catalog of North Texas State Normal College: July 1917

Catalog for North Texas State College includes information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: July 1917
Creator: North Texas State Normal College
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalogue of Simmons College, 1916-1917 (open access)

Catalogue of Simmons College, 1916-1917

Catalogue describes the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Simmons College in Abilene, Texas.
Date: June 1917
Creator: Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Clarendon Ledger: Minutes for September 10, 1901- April 19, 1917] (open access)

[City of Clarendon Ledger: Minutes for September 10, 1901- April 19, 1917]

This ledger includes text of minutes from City Commission meetings and motions passed by the Commission of the City of Clarendon.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Clarendon (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1917 to 1920] (open access)

[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1917 to 1920]

Tax rolls for Grand Prairie, Texas documenting real and personal properties during 1917-1920.
Date: 1917/1920
Creator: Grand Prairie (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clara Evans' Wedding Journal] (open access)

[Clara Evans' Wedding Journal]

Journal belonging to Clara Evans detailing her relationship with John T. Willis, Sr., from their first meeting to their wedding. Newspaper announcements, wedding invitations, fabric samples from Clara Evans' bridal trousseau, pressed flowers, and photographs have been pasted into the book, along with descriptions of important events written by Clara Evans. It also contains articles pertaining to the Willises' Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1967.
Date: 1917/1967
Creator: Willis, Nannie Clara Evans
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Calculator (open access)

Cotton Calculator

Pamphlet with printed tables used to calculate prices of cotton. According to the title page, "Showing the results of any multiplications of all quantities from 300 to 600, at rates beginning with 1-20c or 5 points, and advancing in five points, one-sixteenth, one-eighth and one-quarter of a cent, and by cents from one to thirty." The title page also includes examples to show how to use the tables for calculations.
Date: 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Directions for Sampling Coal for Shipment or Delivery (open access)

Directions for Sampling Coal for Shipment or Delivery

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines with instructions for coal sampling for shipment. As stated in the introduction, "this paper deals with the sampling of coal after it has been mined" (p. 5). This paper includes illustrations.
Date: June 1917
Creator: Pope, George S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 35, July-December, 1916 (open access)

Experiment Station Record, Volume 35, July-December, 1916

Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, and bibliographies. Name and subject indexes start on page 901.
Date: 1917
Creator: United States. Office of Experiments Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 36, January-June, 1917 (open access)

Experiment Station Record, Volume 36, January-June, 1917

Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, and bibliographies. Name and subject indexes start on page 901.
Date: 1917
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
John F. Worley Directory Co. Abilene City Directory, 1917 (open access)

John F. Worley Directory Co. Abilene City Directory, 1917

Directory for Abilene, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "a miscellaneous directory of state, county and city governments, educational institutions, churches, secret and benevolent societies, etc., a street guide and householders' directory, an alphabetically arranged list of business houses and private citizens, giving full names, occupation or pursuit, and address, also a complete classified business directory, 'The Buyer's Guide.'" The index to advertisements begins on page 6.
Date: 1917
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Laws of Texas, 1915-1917 [Volume 17] (open access)

The Laws of Texas, 1915-1917 [Volume 17]

Supplement Volume to the Original Ten Volumes compiled and arranged by H.P.N Gammel of Austin.
Date: 1917
Creator: Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 27. (open access)

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 27.

Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of naval correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Navies discussing their operations. According to the introduction in the first volume, the first series "embraces the reports, orders, and correspondence, both Union and Confederate, relating to all naval operations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and inland waters of the United States during the war of the rebellion, together with the operations of vessels acting singly, either as cruisers or privateers, in different parts of the world. These reports are accompanied by such diagrams and maps as may be necessary" (pp. ix-x). Index starts on page 725.
Date: 1917
Creator: United States. War Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
El Paso City Directory, 1917 (open access)

El Paso City Directory, 1917

General directory for El Paso, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "a miscellaneous directory of state, county and city governments, educational institutions, churches, secret and benevolent societies, etc., a street guide and householders' directory, an alphabetically arranged list of business houses and private citizens, giving full names, occupation or pursuit, and address, also a complete Classified Business Directory, 'The Buyer's Guide.'"
Date: 1917
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographs of Fort Worth. (open access)

Photographs of Fort Worth.

A book with photographs of early Fort Worth.
Date: 1917
Creator: Swartz, D. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proceedings of Investigation Committee, House of Representatives Thirty-Fifth Legislature: Charges Against Governor James E. Ferguson Together with Findings of Committee and Action of House with Prefatory Statement and Index to Proceedings (open access)

Proceedings of Investigation Committee, House of Representatives Thirty-Fifth Legislature: Charges Against Governor James E. Ferguson Together with Findings of Committee and Action of House with Prefatory Statement and Index to Proceedings

This publication documents the investigation of Governor Ferguson conducted by the Investigation Committee including transcripts of interviews, relevant documents, and the findings of the Committee. Index starts on page 531.
Date: March 1917
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Investigation Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Quanah City Council Minutes: Volume 2, 1917-1924] (open access)

[Quanah City Council Minutes: Volume 2, 1917-1924]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Quanah, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from spring 1917 through fall 1924.
Date: 1917-04/1924-09
Creator: Quanah (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin, Texas (open access)

Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin, Texas

Report about the reconstruction of the Austin Dam including appendices of statistics, graphs, and a bibliography, as well as the letter of transmittal and relevant city resolution.
Date: November 1917
Creator: Mead, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Work and Expenditures of the Agricultural Experiment Stations, June 30, 1915 (open access)

A Report on the Work and Expenditures of the Agricultural Experiment Stations, June 30, 1915

Volume provides a summary of the progress of each agricultural experiment station. Also includes statistics, discussions of foreign investigations, and selected studies. Subject index starts on page 299.
Date: 1917
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library