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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 547.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lorena Harbison with a Man]
Photograph of Lorena Harbison, a middle-aged bespectacled woman, and an unidentified man standing indoors. They are both wearing semi-formal clothing. According to accompanying information, Lorena worked at the League City State Bank for thirty-two years.
Date:
April 1956
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Zonta]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Babe Zaharais (Zaharis?), a woman athlete, receiving the World's Outstanding Sports Woman award from Fort Worth Zonta club members.
Date:
September 14, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cancer Claims Life of Babe Zaharias]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about woman athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias and her death of cancer.
Date:
September 27, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Virginia Point Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date:
1956
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: North Texas girls in splash day contest]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about women from North Texas leaving aboard a flight to Galveston to compete in the annual Splash Day beauty contest.
Date:
May 4, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ship]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the British Royal Navy flagship Kenya visiting Texas ports as part of an international relations event between countries.
Date:
March 16, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Splash day]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Splash Day celebration at Galveston beach.
Date:
May 7, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]
This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family vacationing in Galveston and at Lake Texoma in the summer of 1956. The road trip begins with title cards that read "R.E. Hill Presents," "1956," "Filmed and Edited by Roy E. Hill," and "Helen, Art, and Bonita." This first segment begins with footage shot from their moving car as they pass through Houston and Texas City on their way to Galveston. Footage includes the Texas Heroes Monument, exteriors of homes, boats on the water, businesses including the Omar Khayyam Club (04:28), and docked tourists boats the "Yacht Garmencita" and "Miss Texas" (04:29). The family visits Fort Crockett (04:44), plays on the beach and in the ocean, observes boats on the water, and swims at the hotel pool. This segment concludes with the title card "The End" (11:17). In the next segment, there is a shot of the Dave Hicks Company, Inc., a woman picking up a child at the Young Texan School (12:06), a small airplane being worked on in a driveway (12:06-12:58), children riding bicycles (12:58-13:30) and family visiting the zoo (13:30-15:16). The film concludes with a family trip to Denison Dam and Lake Texoma with the family driving to …
Date:
July 1956
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Last Will and Testament of Daniel Webster Kempner]
Last will and testament of Daniel Webster Kempner. He instructs the executors of his will to sell a number of his shares in the H. Kempner trust, in order to pay for incidentals and debts that might occur as a result of his death; to give a number of shares in three trusts/companies to his daughter Mary Jeane Kempner, to help pay for her son, Daniel Kempner Thorne's education; to not hold his daughter accountable for any sums of money he loaned her during his life; to give his shares in Sugarland Industries and the Imperial Sugar Company to the Harris and Eliza Kempner Trust; and the rest of his estate to his wife and daughter.
Date:
February 1, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. P. Sanders to Classmates of 1926, April 16, 1956]
Letter from Dr. J. P. Sanders to his classmates of 1926, telling of those that he knows will not be able to make it to the annual meeting in Galveston.
Date:
April 16, 1956
Creator:
Sanders, J. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. P. Sanders to the Graduates of 1926, March 16, 1956]
Letter from J. P. Sanders to classmates of 1926 announcing the date for their annual meeting in 1956. Sanders hopes that all will attend though he knows that some have passed, and that over time they will slowly lose contact with one another.
Date:
March 16, 1956
Creator:
Sanders, J. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, June 22, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing his Father's Day present from Mary Jean, car issues, and the new gardener at the Galveston property.
Date:
June 22, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 6, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing travel needs for the abroad trip, stock shares, and divorce business for Mary Jean.
Date:
July 6, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, June 27, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing divorce business, television purchases, litigation, and their health.
Date:
June 27, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, January 26, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing current events in both their lives.
Date:
January 26, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, April 27, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean requesting clarification on loan notes made by Mary Jean.
Date:
April 27, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 2, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean requesting a photograph enlargement of him, Danny, and Jeane.
Date:
July 2, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum for Conversation with Mary Jean]
Memorandum from I. H. Kempner discussing upcoming funeral services and arrangements planned for D. W. Kempner from a conversation with Mary Jean Kempner Thorne.
Date:
October 23, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, January 12, 1956]
Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing an ongoing search for a wholesaler that has Royal Scarlet White Asparagus spears.
Date:
January 12, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, March 9, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing their travels back to Galveston, the health of two people, a recent storm, and sending her papers.
Date:
March 9, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, May 8, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing loan notes and a letter written to the Continental American Travel Agency.
Date:
May 8, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, March 15, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing an enclosed check covering a requested list of alcohol.
Date:
March 15, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, May 18, 1956]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing a letter to Miss Lee Guth, stock certificates received by Backshear from Mary Jean, and home life updates.
Date:
May 18, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History