Resource Type
Partner
Rice University Woodson Research Center
72
Sterling Municipal Library
39
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
28
UNT Press
21
UNT Oral History Program
13
Philosophical Society of Texas
7
UNT Libraries
7
UNT Libraries Special Collections
5
Harris County Archives
2
LSC - Tomball Community Library
2
8 More
Collection
Hidden Selections of Houston’s African American and Jewish Heritage
71
Baytown History Collection
39
Texas State Publications
26
Texas Folklore Society Publications
19
UNT Oral Histories
14
Texas Oral History Collection
12
Broadening Access to Books on Texas and Oklahoma
9
Texas History Collection
8
Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Texas Annual Meetings
7
University of North Texas Press
5
15 More
Serial/Series Title
Walker family Fort Bend County farming diaries (MS 1013)
30
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
19
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) records (MS 1034)
13
University of Texas System Reports
12
Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
7
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Operating Budget
7
Fiscal Year 2018
5
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Operating Budget
5
Catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake
3
Fiscal Year 2017
3
31 More
Country
States
Counties
Decade
Month
Language
204 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Results:
1 - 24 of
204
next
The LH7 Ranch in Houston's Shadow: The E.H. Marks' Legacy From Longhorns to the Salt Grass Trail
This book gives an overview of the history of the LH7 ranch, near Houston, Texas starting with the father of Emil Henry Marks, who founded the ranch. The chapters include biographical information of people in the Marks family and other people connected to the ranch as well as historical aspects of the ranch and the community. Index starts on page 217.
Date:
1991
Creator:
Sizemore, Deborah Lightfoot
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
Roth, Mitchel P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey
This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Backwoods to Border
Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore
Volume of twenty-one essays about folklore in Texas, including essays about police burials, railroads, graffiti, folk music, dance halls, and other folklore. The index begins on page 279.
Date:
1997
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds
This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date:
1972
Creator:
Hudson, Wilson M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coroner Inquest
Ledger containing coroner's inquest information and related notes for deaths in Harris County, Texas.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inquest Proceedings
Ledger containing inquest proceedings and related notes for deaths in Harris County, Texas.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lake Houston Facilities Project Annual Budget: 2012
Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
November 9, 2011
Creator:
Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Tribute to Tomball: A Pictorial History of the Tomball Area
Pictorial history with personal accounts and textual descriptions of Tomball, Texas, including a brief overview of the area and accounts of the families, businesses, social organizations, churches, and schools.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Tomball Area Diamond Jubilee, Inc.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Counter Colón-ialismo, September 27, 1991-May 23, 1993]
Catalog for the "Counter Colón-ialismo" exhibit including biographies of participating artists, descriptions of the art pieces in the exhibit, and other information about the series.
Date:
1992
Creator:
Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with E. Maurice Keathley, May 24, 1995
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with E. Maurice Keathely, an employee of Prudential Insurance from Houston, Texas, who was involved in the Kaiser-Prudential joint venture. Keahtley discusses his educational background, work at Prudential, his responsibilities with "Kai-Pru", the value and benefits of the venture, key members of the companies, the financial arrangement and organization of the venture, marketing, HMO's, inter-company cooperation, difficulties and criticisms, and the Texas Medical Association.
Date:
May 24, 1995
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Keathley, E. Maurice
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Michael Hurd, May 28, 2013
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Michael Hurd, a journalist and member of the Texas Black History Preservation Project from Houston, Texas. Hurd discusses growing up in Texarkana and Houston, his education and service in the Air Force, work with the Houston Post and USA Today, Juneteenth, researching black history, the Texas Black History Preservation Project and related efforts, being an historian, the history of Juneteenth and emancipation in Texas, and civil rights. In appendix are photographs of Hurd, clippings of his reporting, and URLs to videos he was involved in.
Date:
May 26, 2013
Creator:
Turner, Elizabeth Hays & Hurd, Michael
System:
The UNT Digital Library
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Operating Budget: 2017
Proposed budget for University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
August 25, 2016
Creator:
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2015-2016, Graduate
Annual graduate catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake describing the school, admission requirements, tuition, financial aid, departments, and classes for the 2015-2016 school year.
Date:
2015
Creator:
University of Houston--Clear Lake
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Carl Denmon, April 8, 2006
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Carl Denmon, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Denmon's personal experiences about childhood in Houston, Texas and undergraduate education at Wiley College. Additionally, Denmon discusses his employment as band director at Fred Moore High School in Denton, graduate studies in Music and Education at NTSU, his career with and retirement from Dallas County Community College, and his perceptions of changes in Denton and at North Texas over forty years.
Date:
April 8, 2006
Creator:
Johnson, Michael & Denmon, Carl
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marla Bullard, December 14, 2003
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with salesperson Marla Bullard. The interview includes Bullard's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Bullard talks about her Mexican-American family values, her use of drugs and alcohol in high school, her attitudes toward the Vietnam War, hippie activities at Allen's Landing in Houston, Texas, conflicts between rednecks and hippies, her attraction to the musical groups of the Sixties, the importance of lyrics in Sixties music, her decision to attend the festival, drug use at the festival, Janis Joplin's performance, and the influence of the festival on her life.
Date:
December 14, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Bullard, Marla
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
Volume of essays about African-American folklore, including reminiscences of African-American folk culture in Texas, studies of specific genres of folklore, information about Texas-African food-ways, studies of specific performers, information about songs and other folklore. The index begins on page 353.
Date:
1996
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Folk Medicine: 1,333 Cures, Remedies, Preventives, & Health Practices
This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a compilation of 1,333 folk cures, remedies and prevention techniques. It includes information about various diagnoses, such as acne, poison ivy, whooping cough, nosebleeds, and others.
Date:
1970
Creator:
Anderson, John Q.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John J. Clemens, May 13, 2003
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with John J. Clemens. The interview includes Clemens' personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas, World War II-era service in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard USS Wren in the Pacific Theater, and piloting a ship into Tokyo Bay immediately following the Japanese surrender. Clemens speaks about convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean, the January 4, 1944 sinking of the USS Turner while moored in New York Harbor and the court of inquiry regarding the sinking, actions in the Aleutian Islands, Attu, Okinawa, and Philippine campaigns and anti-kamikaze warfare while aboard the USS Wren, and the effects that Allied bombing had on Tokyo.
Date:
May 13, 2003
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Clemens, John J., 1921-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Welcome to Tomball: A History of Tomball, Texas
Book describing the history of Tomball, Texas, including its origins; significant persons; history of the schools, businesses, and churches; and other information about the growth of Tomball over time. Index starts on page 211.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Upchurch, Lessie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Operating Budget: 2019
Proposed budget for the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
August 10, 2018
Creator:
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Harris County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Harris County, Texas.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Wheeler, Frankie F.; Crout, Jack D.; Ratliff, Larry F.; Hatherly, Don T.; Deshotels, Jesse D.; Wagner, John D. et al.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Memories of Nelly Levy Berg: Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948
Biographical narrative about Nelly Levy Berg and her family, detailing her early life in Germany (now part of Poland) and subsequent immigration to Houston, Texas. It also discusses World War II and the effects of the Holocaust on her extended family. The author (Berg's daughter) also describes a modern-day trip to Eastern Europe to revisit the locations.
Date:
1995
Creator:
Wulfe, Lorraine
System:
The Portal to Texas History