Resource Type

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-297 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-297

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The "wet" or "dry" status of Zavala County; validity of local option election held in 1910 in said county.
Date: July 7, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-704 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-704

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Texas A&M may sell its agricultural station in Crystal City and apply the proceeds to the development of the station in Uvalde.
Date: October 2, 1975
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frankie Rosita Holdsworth Hollar, November 11, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frankie Rosita Holdsworth Hollar, November 11, 1998

Interview with Frankie Rosita Holdsworth Hollar, a 99 year old Mexican woman who immigrated to Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Hollar is almost 100 years old at the time of the interview. Her family were some of the early residents of Kerrville and Kerr County, and her younger sister, Mary, eventually married Mr. H. E. Butts (founder of HEB). One of the oldest surviving members of the community, she describes her education, her career as a teacher, and how the area has changed over the years.
Date: November 11, 1998
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann; Hollar, Frankie Rosita Holdsworth & Salter, Ammie Rose
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