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[Monument to Law Enforcement]

Photograph of a monument to citizens in law enforcement in Navarro County, Texas. Trees and a building are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties. (open access)

Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date: 1895
Creator: Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest (open access)

The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest

This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Petroleum. (open access)

Texas Petroleum.

This report contains information about the petroleum industry in the state of Texas, including chapters on the history, nature and origin of the resource, as well as oil and gas-bearing formations. The index begins on page 93.
Date: July 1900
Creator: Phillips, William Battle
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Evaluation of the Library Service in the Sam Houston School, Corsicana, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Library Service in the Sam Houston School, Corsicana, Texas

This study is the result of an evaluation conducted at the Sam Houston Secondary School library in Corsicana, Texas to determine if the needs of students were being met.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Wallace, Frank James
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the School News Appearing in Seven Navarro County Newspapers in so far as the News Pertains to Twelve School Districts (open access)

An Analysis of the School News Appearing in Seven Navarro County Newspapers in so far as the News Pertains to Twelve School Districts

The problem in this study is to determine and evaluate the practices of twelve small town schools in Navarro County in giving information about the schools to the people of the communities through the newspapers of the county.
Date: 1940
Creator: Ross, Clyde H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
School Consolidation in Navarro County (open access)

School Consolidation in Navarro County

The purpose of this study is to determine if further school consolidation in Navarro County is desirable.
Date: 1948
Creator: Sebastian, Alfred G.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship Between Children's Mental Ability, Their Play Interests, and Their Social Behavior (open access)

Relationship Between Children's Mental Ability, Their Play Interests, and Their Social Behavior

The problem of this study is to determine what degree of relationship exists between a group of fifth-grade children's play interests, their mental ability, and their social behavior.
Date: 1949
Creator: Miller, Helen Walker
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic History of the Development of the Oil Industry in Southeast Texas (open access)

Economic History of the Development of the Oil Industry in Southeast Texas

The main body of this thesis is composed of four chapters: Chapter II is concerned with the development of the oil industry in Texas prior to the discovery of Spindletop; Chapter III deals with Spindletop; Chapter IV sets forth the later developments of the oil industry in Southeast Texas or Railroad Commission District No. 3; Chapter V is the concluding chapter, complete with summary, evaluation present status and future possibilities of the oil industry in Southeast Texas.
Date: January 1952
Creator: Kennedy, Emery L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memoir of Cornelia Garner] (open access)

[Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are sketches at the end that appear to be properties, labeled with names.
Date: unknown
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner] (open access)

[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Transcript of handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are notes and annotations added to the end for clarification.
Date: 2019
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History