[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.] (open access)

[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]

Business card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.. It lists the cities the company is present in and has a logo featuring the word "Viking" on the top left corner of the card.
Date: 1950
Creator: Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: News review] (open access)

[News Script: News review]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week.
Date: June 10, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Business Card for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.] (open access)

[Business Card for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]

Business card from Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co, which does business in multiple cities.
Date: 1952~
Creator: Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 12 - The Doughboys on Tour 1952 - 1959] captions transcript

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 12 - The Doughboys on Tour 1952 - 1959]

This home movie documents the Light Crust Doughboys (LCD) on tour and performing in Texas and the Southern United States in 1952 - 1959. Footage includes performers at the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas on November 27, 1951 (3 min., 06 sec.); a performance in Houston, Texas on June 25, 1952 that includes actors Tim Holt and Preston Foster (6 min, 44 sec.); a visit with actor Noah Beery, Jr. on September 30, 1952 in Little Rock, Arkansas (8 min, 07 sec.); a trip to historic sites in Vicksburg, Mississippi (8 min., 58 sec.); the exterior of the WFAA studio (11 min., 48 sec.); pianist Knocky Parker and guitarist Zeke Campbell playing together in 1954 (12 min, 07 sec.); a trip to the Port of Beaumont (12 min., 36 sec.); a stop in Lubbock for a parade and performance with Jack Perry at the ABC Rodeo (13 min., 40 sec); the LCD in Cedar Ridge recording studio (15 min., 48 sec.); the LCD and other performers filming a television show at Cross Road Store in May 1957 (16 min., 24 sec.); another performance at the ABC Rodeo in Lubbock in May 1957 (17 min., 47 sec.); the LCD …
Date: 1952/1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner, Jr., to I. H. Kempner, November 24, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner, Jr., to I. H. Kempner, November 24, 1952]

Letter from I. H. Kempner, Jr., to I. H. Kempner discussing Frank Kemp's travel timeline and dinner opportunities.
Date: November 24, 1952
Creator: Kempner, Isaac Herbert, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. O. Wood, January 23, 1953] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. O. Wood, January 23, 1953]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. O. Wood discussing freight absorption rate numbers in various columns of a report by I. H. Kempner, Jr.
Date: January 23, 1953
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Robert Markle Armstrong, February 2, 1953] (open access)

[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Robert Markle Armstrong, February 2, 1953]

Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Robert Markle Armstrong discussing the use of payments of import duties in Armstrong's sales program. Details of different contribution areas are discussed.
Date: February 2, 1953
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from M. J. Sullivan to Thos. L. James, September 12, 1953] (open access)

[Letter from M. J. Sullivan to Thos. L. James, September 12, 1953]

Letter from M. J. Sullivan to Thos. L. James discussing the search for a replacement double evaporator unit for D. W. Kempner's G. E. refrigerator.
Date: September 12, 1953
Creator: Sullivan, Maurice J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Southwest Retort, Volume 6, Number 2, November 1953 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 6, Number 2, November 1953

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters This special issue includes the general and technical programs for the Regional Conclave of the American Chemical Society.
Date: November 1953
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Thomas Leroy James, May 22, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Thomas Leroy James, May 22, 1954]

Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Thomas Leroy James discussing discussing upcoming visits to Sugar Land, Texas, with agenda ideas.
Date: May 22, 1954
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Burnett] captions transcript

[News Clip: Burnett]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dick Burnett, the owner of the Dallas Eagles baseball team, dying of a heart attack at the age of 57.
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Burnett] (open access)

[News Script: Burnett]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dick Burnett, the owner of the Dallas Eagles baseball team, dying of a heart attack at the age of 57.
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner, August 1, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner, August 1, 1955]

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to I. H. Kempner and Henrietta Leonora Blum Kempner discussing an invitation to a directors meeting for a resigning member. He also mentions a storm that may bring heavy rain to Sugar Land and some social gatherings that he had attended recently.
Date: August 1, 1955
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Year In Review, 1956-1957] captions transcript

[News Clip: Year In Review, 1956-1957]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering news highlights from the years 1956 and 1957.
Date: 1956/1957-12-31
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 11, 1956] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 11, 1956]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing payments to H. Kempner Firm, a sugar trade, family stock shares at Imperial Sugar, death and sickness in the community, and farming operations.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Tornado, Parade, Baseball] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tornado, Parade, Baseball]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained, a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation, and a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald] (open access)

[Photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald]

Photocopy of a collection of photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, as well as his New Orleans library card, and other objects.
Date: 1959~/1963~
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 3, November 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 3, November 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters. This issue includes program information for the regional meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Date: November 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library