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T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore (open access)

T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
Date: 1982
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1982] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1982]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from February to December 1982.
Date: 1982-02/1982-12
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1982-1983 (open access)

Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1982-1983

Undergraduate catalog describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas.
Date: 1982
Creator: Abilene Christian University
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Special Report to the State Board of Education (open access)

A Special Report to the State Board of Education

The Advisory Council publishes a "Special Report" every two years, containing primarily recommendations requiring state legislation and/or appropriations.
Date: June 24, 1982
Creator: Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brief History of the Balzen Family in Texas (open access)

Brief History of the Balzen Family in Texas

History of the Balzen family in Texas including narratives and family charts for the various branches of the family, and anecdotes about family members, with reproductions of the family brand, maps, and other supplementary materials. The text includes a number of handwritten corrections and additions.
Date: July 14, 1982
Creator: Balzen, Richard W. & Balzen, Martha C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A Gunship Derivative of the Marine Vertical Assault] (open access)

[A Gunship Derivative of the Marine Vertical Assault]

Booklet: B8208.1 A Gunship Derivative of the Marine Vertical Assault Tilrtrotor (V/HMX).
Date: August 1982
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Survey of San Saba County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of San Saba 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 San Saba County, Texas.
Date: 1982
Creator: Bynum, Otto W.; Cyprian, Thomas E. & Baker, Frank E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1981 (open access)

Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1981

Proceedings of the 17th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. Includes the event program, meeting minutes for the April 4, 1981 SWFAS Executive Committee, and the SWFAS by-laws.
Date: 1982
Creator: Couzzourt, Jim
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interviews with Leon King, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Leon King, 1982

Interview with public school administrator Leon A. King from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, King describes his experiences as one of the two first African Americans who first integrated athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: October 19, 1982
Creator: Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Leon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Odus Mitchell, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Odus Mitchell, 1982

Interview with former North Texas football coach Odus Mitchell from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Mitchell discusses his experiences as head football coach during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: October 19, 1982
Creator: Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & Mitchell, Odus
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with G. A. Moore, May 28, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with G. A. Moore, May 28, 1982

Interview with football coach G. A. Moore, from Pilot Point, Texas. In the interview, Moore recalls his experiences concerning the desegregation of athletics at the North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: May 28, 1982
Creator: Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & Moore, G. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Land and Its People, 1876-1981: Deaf Smith County, Texas (open access)

The Land and Its People, 1876-1981: Deaf Smith County, Texas

Book describing Deaf Smith County including local history, photographs, illustrations, and biographies.
Date: 1982
Creator: Deaf Smith County Historical Society
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Leon Brown, September 29, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Leon Brown, September 29, 1982

Interview with Leon Brown, professor of Trombone at the School of Music at North Texas State University. Brown discusses his work with Bob Makovsky, former band director and music department head at Oklahoma A&M College.
Date: September 29, 1982
Creator: Dugger, Rick & Brown, Leon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Family History of Martin and Carolina Echtle (open access)

Family History of Martin and Carolina Echtle

History of the Echtle family including family tree listings for each of the surviving (2nd-generation) children, notes about the Echtle family reunions, and a narrative reflecting on the family's history in the U.S., which celebrated a 100th anniversary in 1982.
Date: July 1982
Creator: Echtle, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Hardin-Simmons University, 1982-1983 Graduate Bulletin (open access)

Catalog of Hardin-Simmons University, 1982-1983 Graduate Bulletin

Catalog describes the governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life in the Division of Graduate Studies at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
Date: May 31, 1982
Creator: Hardin-Simmons University
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Hardin-Simmons University, 1982-1983 Undergraduate Bulletin (open access)

Catalog of Hardin-Simmons University, 1982-1983 Undergraduate Bulletin

Catalog describes the governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
Date: May 30, 1982
Creator: Hardin-Simmons University
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Howard Payne University, 1982-1983 (open access)

Catalog of Howard Payne University, 1982-1983

Catalog describes the history, governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Howard Payne University
System: The Portal to Texas History
I. M. Terrell High School All Student Class Reunion (open access)

I. M. Terrell High School All Student Class Reunion

Program for the I. M. Terrell High School All Student Class Reunion, held in the Hotel Americana in Fort Worth, Texas, from August 20 to August 22, 1982. It includes background information, a list of congratulatory letters from major politicians, an itinerary of events, a list of former students and faculty, advertisements, and photographs.
Date: August 1982
Creator: I.M. Terrell High School Reunion. Souvenir Book Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Nathan Donsky, September 11, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Nathan Donsky, September 11, 1982

Interview with Nathan Donsky, a business-owner from Dallas, Texas. Donsky discusses his family history, his upbringing, first job as a secretary, running small businesses in San Angelo and Forsan, Texas, founding Goren & Donsky's Pawn Shop, how he married his wife, expanding the business, starting Nathan's Jewelers, family happenings, company finances, and business partnerships and relations.
Date: September 11, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Donsky, Nathan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marvin Gearhart, August 17, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Marvin Gearhart, August 17, 1982

Transcript of an interview with Marvin Gearhart, chairman of board, president, and CEO of Gearhart Industries, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas about his experiences in the oil industry and Gearhart Industries' success.
Date: August 17, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Gearhart, Marvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Doyle Griffin, December 11, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Doyle Griffin, December 11, 1982

Transcript of an interview with Doyle Griffin, owner and operator of R & R Motor Supply, Inc. in Denton, Texas. Griffin discusses his family background, his employment history, his purchase of R & R Motor Supply in 1944 and his experiences as a business owner, as well as his personal hobbies such as raising quarter horses and boat racing.
Date: December 11, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffin, Doyle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982

Interview with Ernest Griffith, owner and operator of Griffith's Independent Ginner. The interview includes Griffith's personal experiences about education in Texola, Oklahoma, part-time employment as cotton picker, and being involved in building cotton gins and operating drug stores. Griffith also talks about his family background, the operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, buying cotton and retaining cotton seed, variations in cotton prices, sale of coal to farmers, buying grain for Kimball Milling Company, Weinert cotton gin personnel, significant changes in the cotton ginning business during thirty years, the ginning procedure, and civic and trade association activities.
Date: November 4, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffith, Ernest
System: The UNT Digital Library
Johnson’s January, 1982 City Directory for Baytown, Texas Including Crosby, Highlands (open access)

Johnson’s January, 1982 City Directory for Baytown, Texas Including Crosby, Highlands

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. According to the title page the directory contains “an alphabetical list identifying area businesses and families to residents; a complete list of area businesses arranged according to offered products and services; residential and business addresses arranged according to street and number; a list of telephone numbers in numerical order; and rural information of the surrounding area.”
Date: 1982
Creator: Johnson Publishing Co. Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 1982] (open access)

[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 1982]

Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from January through June in 1982.
Date: 1982-01/1982-06
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library