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[News Script: Zonta]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Babe Zaharais (Zaharis?), a woman athlete, receiving the World's Outstanding Sports Woman award from Fort Worth Zonta club members.
Date:
September 14, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cancer Claims Life of Babe Zaharias]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about woman athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias and her death of cancer.
Date:
September 27, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: North Texas girls in splash day contest]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about women from North Texas leaving aboard a flight to Galveston to compete in the annual Splash Day beauty contest.
Date:
May 4, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ship]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the British Royal Navy flagship Kenya visiting Texas ports as part of an international relations event between countries.
Date:
March 16, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Splash day]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Splash Day celebration at Galveston beach.
Date:
May 7, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 547.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lorena Harbison with a Man]
Photograph of Lorena Harbison, a middle-aged bespectacled woman, and an unidentified man standing indoors. They are both wearing semi-formal clothing. According to accompanying information, Lorena worked at the League City State Bank for thirty-two years.
Date:
April 1956
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]
This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family vacationing in Galveston and at Lake Texoma in the summer of 1956. The road trip begins with title cards that read "R.E. Hill Presents," "1956," "Filmed and Edited by Roy E. Hill," and "Helen, Art, and Bonita." This first segment begins with footage shot from their moving car as they pass through Houston and Texas City on their way to Galveston. Footage includes the Texas Heroes Monument, exteriors of homes, boats on the water, businesses including the Omar Khayyam Club (04:28), and docked tourists boats the "Yacht Garmencita" and "Miss Texas" (04:29). The family visits Fort Crockett (04:44), plays on the beach and in the ocean, observes boats on the water, and swims at the hotel pool. This segment concludes with the title card "The End" (11:17). In the next segment, there is a shot of the Dave Hicks Company, Inc., a woman picking up a child at the Young Texan School (12:06), a small airplane being worked on in a driveway (12:06-12:58), children riding bicycles (12:58-13:30) and family visiting the zoo (13:30-15:16). The film concludes with a family trip to Denison Dam and Lake Texoma with the family driving to …
Date:
July 1956
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. P. Sanders to Classmates of 1926, April 16, 1956]
Letter from Dr. J. P. Sanders to his classmates of 1926, telling of those that he knows will not be able to make it to the annual meeting in Galveston.
Date:
April 16, 1956
Creator:
Sanders, J. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. P. Sanders to the Graduates of 1926, March 16, 1956]
Letter from J. P. Sanders to classmates of 1926 announcing the date for their annual meeting in 1956. Sanders hopes that all will attend though he knows that some have passed, and that over time they will slowly lose contact with one another.
Date:
March 16, 1956
Creator:
Sanders, J. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Cecile Kempner, October 16, 1956]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to Cecile Kempner discussing some letters from Honolulu, Hawaii and a cremation service.
Date:
October 16, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, July 26, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing the purchase of groceries.
Date:
July 26, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, September 25, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing the shipment of fig gift packages.
Date:
September 25, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to J. M. Sutton, January 21, 1956]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to J. M. Sutton discussing a sugar package.
Date:
January 21, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Figs & Railway Express Charges, December 26, 1956]
Invoice for items and services sold to I. H. Kempner by Sugarland Industries, including figs and Railway Express charges.
Date:
December 26, 1956
Creator:
Sugarland Industries
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. H. Louviere to Directors of Imperial Sugar Company, November 16, 1956]
Letter from I. H. Kempner, Jr., to Board of Directors discussing the upcoming meeting time and location.
Date:
November 16, 1956
Creator:
Louviere, William H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, April 3, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing a portable radio.
Date:
April 3, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, April 6, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing a statement for purchases.
Date:
April 6, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for I. H. Kempner, June 5, 1956]
Invoice for items sold to I. H. Kempner by Sugar Land Shopping Center.
Date:
June 5, 1956
Creator:
Sugar Land Shopping Center
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, August 15, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing the development of a tract of land and an oil lease.
Date:
August 15, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, March 30, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing the purchase of a radio.
Date:
March 30, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, June 12, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing the maintenance that was done on an Oldsmobile car.
Date:
June 12, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Thomas L. James, January 28, 1956]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to Thomas L. James requesting information about a food mixer.
Date:
January 28, 1956
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner, May 7, 1956]
Letter from Thomas L. James to I. H. Kempner discussing the cost of automobiles.
Date:
May 7, 1956
Creator:
James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History