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Conservation Connect, Number 5, Fall 2018 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 5, Fall 2018

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Connect, Number 3, Fall 2016 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 3, Fall 2016

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2016
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Connect, Number 4, Fall 2017 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 4, Fall 2017

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Connect, Number 2, Fall 2015 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 2, Fall 2015

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Connect, Number 1, Fall 2014 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 1, Fall 2014

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
"People" feature for September 2013 (open access)

"People" feature for September 2013

List of individuals to be included in an article about interesting Texans that was published in the September 2013 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2013-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Seventh Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2018 (open access)

Texas Seventh Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2018

Annual financial report of the Seventh Court of Appeals documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2018
Date: September 18, 2018
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (7th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 891, Chapter 606 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 891, Chapter 606

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the operation and administration of and practice in and grants provided by courts in the judicial branch of state government; increasing and imposing fees; creating a criminal offense.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cadillac Ranch

Photograph of the 1974 art installation by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels in Amarillo, TX known as 'Cadillac Ranch'.
Date: April 15, 2019
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Ozymandias Marker]

Photograph of the marker located near the sculpture "Ozymandias on the Plains." There is a metal plaque set at an angle in a stone, which is is covered in graffiti; the marker is in a similar style as other Texas State Historical Association Markers, but lacks identifying information.
Date: April 15, 2019
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Panoramic View of Cadillac Ranch

Panoramic Photograph of the 1974 art installation by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels in Amarillo, TX known as 'Cadillac Ranch'.
Date: April 15, 2019
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cadillac Ranch

Photograph of the 1974 art installation by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels in Amarillo, TX known as 'Cadillac Ranch'.
Date: April 15, 2019
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4284, Chapter 382 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4284, Chapter 382

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the jurisdiction of the statutory county courts of Potter County in family law matters.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1771, Chapter 266 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1771, Chapter 266

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the beds or banks of the Canadian River in Potter County.
Date: May 29, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Grover Martin, June 9, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Grover Martin, June 9, 2016

Grover Martin was born and raised in Prairie View and went to Prairie View A&M for his BA and MA. He moved to Amarillo to work in the local air force base and continued on in another federal government job until the early 1990s. He was part of the Amarillo NAACP and experienced all black education institutions.
Date: June 9, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Martin, Grover
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lilia Escajeda, July 6, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lilia Escajeda, July 6, 2016

Lilia Escajeda was born in El Paso, Texas. She grew up between El Paso, Van Horn, and Amarillo; and she remembers going to segregated schools in Van Horn. She settled in Amarillo as an adult after her husband died, and she eventually became the first female loan-officer for any bank in Amarillo, at the Amarillo National Bank. She joined various community organizations, boards, and became both the first Mexican American women Amarillo College board member and City Commissioner (later City Council Member).
Date: July 6, 2016
Creator: Escajeda, Lilia; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Elisha Demerson, June 11, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Elisha Demerson, June 11, 2016

Elisha Demerson was born and raised in Amarillo. Elisha Demerson and his twin brother both received appointments to West Point, but returned to Amarillo after two years to be near their ill mother. Elisha Demerson first worked at Pantex as a yard worker but entered West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University) where he gained a bachelors then a masters in engineering. He has his own congregation as a minister. In addition, Elisha Demerson became the first African American Potter County Commissioner, the first African American county judge in Texas in the late 1980s, and the first African American City Council Member.
Date: June 11, 2016
Creator: Demerson, Elisha; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Guzman, June 7, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Guzman, June 7, 2016

Guzman was born in Edinburg and moved to Hart as a child. He later moved to Amarillo and bought his own small buisness. He helped revitalize the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in the 1980s.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Guzman, Gilbert & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Iris Lawrence, June 22, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Iris Lawrence, June 22, 2016

Iris Lawrence was born and raised in the North Heights neighborhood of Amarillo, Texas. She attended African American universities, including Howard University, and earned a master’s degree in English. While in college, Lawrence also participated in attempting to integrate Amarillo while on school breaks. Upon returning to Amarillo after living in various places like Austin, Texas, Lawrence worked for the state’s comptrollers office and served as the president of the NAACP.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Lawrence, Iris
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wayne Woodward, June 9, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Wayne Woodward, June 9, 2016

Wayne Woodward discusses his early life and activism and civil rights issues and the discriminatory culture of the Texas Panhandle,
Date: June 9, 2016
Creator: Bynum, Katherine & Woodward, Wayne
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pete and Jessie Mendez, June 6, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Pete and Jessie Mendez, June 6, 2016

Pedro "Pete" Mendez was born in South Texas and arrived in the Texas Panhandle through migrant labor with his parents in the 1930s. His father died in Clarendon, TX and he was raised between Amarillo and Tucumcari, NM. He joined the Marines during WWII and served in Northern China. Upon returning, he began a small construction business and helped start the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He spoke on the opportunities he and other minority business owners had through government grants and contracts. Jessie Mendez grew up in Amarillo. She recounts segregated schools and business in Amarillo during her childhood. She especially recounts her mother helping end segregation for Mexican Americans in one theater. Jessie talked about not being able to gain a job as a secretary because of her Mexican ethnicity, and thus giving up in the prospect of being employed and settling for marriage. She also recounts pushing her husband to work for civil rights, but she herself followed tradition and stayed home to raise her children.
Date: June 6, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel; Mendez, Pete & Mendez, Jessie
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alphonso Vaughn, June 22, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Alphonso Vaughn, June 22, 2016

Alphonso Vaughn was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. He lived through the integration of local schools as a high school student. From Amarillo, he entered the military and then attending the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas. Upon his return to Amarillo, Vaughn helped start the city’s Juneteenth Celebration along with various civil rights and cultural organizations. He served five, two year terms as president of Amarillo’s NAACP. Since then, he has served as a Potter County Commissioner.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Vaughn, Alphonso
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pearlene Martin on June 9, 2016. captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Pearlene Martin on June 9, 2016.

Pearlene Martin was raised around Texas and obtained her Masters degree at West Texas State College. She began teaching in Plainview Texas in the 1950s and then moved to Amarillo with her husband. She taught in segregated and integrated schools. In 1980 she became the first women president of the Amarillo NAACP. Since retiring, he has continued her involvement in the community. Some of Martin’s accolades include receiving the 1977 Edward Henderson Award, one of YMCA’s highest awards; the 1992 Service Provider Merit Award given by the Women’s Coalition for Change; the 1993 Merit Mother award from the Texas Mothers Association; and the 1999 Woman of Distinction Award presented by the Texas Plains Girl Scout Council.
Date: June 9, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Martin, Pearlene
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Abel Bosquez, June 8, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Abel Bosquez, June 8, 2016

Basquez was raised in the Panhandle and joined the Marines as a young man. Upon returning, the settled in Amarillo and eventually obtained a job at Pantex. At Pantex, he became invovled with Union organizating and evetnually became an organizer lobbying in Washington DC. From there, he began joining other ogranizations such as LULAC to raise scolarship money as well as to promote voter regestration. He ran for State Representative in Amarillo three times.
Date: June 8, 2016
Creator: Bosquez, Abel; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History