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Abilene
Topographic quadrangle map of Abilene, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:250,000
Date:
1954
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Big Springs
Topographic quadrangle map of Big Spring, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date:
1954
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galleon, Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 1954
The Galleon literary magazine of McMurry College includes editorials, book reviews, and original short stories, plays, poetry, and artwork.
Date:
1954
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galleon, Volume 31, Number 1, Fall 1954
The Galleon literary magazine of McMurry College includes editorials, book reviews, and original short stories, plays, poetry, and artwork.
Date:
1954
Creator:
McMurry College
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial Photograph of Hardin-Simmons University]
Aerial photograph of the Hardin-Simmons University campus looking north, showing the Sandefer Memorial, Rose Field House, Blanche Lange Hall, Caldwell Hall, and other buildings. Residential neighborhoods and houses surrounding the land of the campus are also shown.
Date:
[1954..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a car wreck. A couple of people, including a policeman is overlooking the scene. A car can be seen with the front side smashed in.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a car wreck. The wrecked car is a police vehicle, as it has "City of Abilene CAR 205 POLICE" Written on one of the doors.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a big crowd standing around a car wreck. A police officer is seen checking out the scene.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a car wreck. A few people are standing by a car that seems to have been hit from behind.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a car wreck. A group of people are seen by a car that appears to have been hit from behind.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University Baptist Church Note Burning
Photograph of three men at a Baptist Church in Abilene, TX burning a note. The church is located on Ambler and Grape.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University Baptist Church Note Burning
Photograph of three men at a Baptist Church in Abilene, TX burning a note. The church choir is also present at the ceremony. The church is located on Ambler and Grape Streets.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University Baptist Church Note Burning
Photograph of the congregation at the University Baptist Church in Abilene, TX singing during a ceremonial note burning. In the center, stand the three men about to burn the note.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a crowd around a car wreck. In the background a business has a sign that reads "Hill & Hill Co. Complete Automotive Service".
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a big crowd surrounding a car scene. Policemen seem to be checking the car accident and in the background a service station can be seen.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a big crowd surrounding a car wreck scene. A couple of policemen seem to be writing a report of the wreck. In the background there is an automobile service station.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a crowd surrounding a car wreck scene. A police car can be seen in the background and a couple of policemen are checking out the car wreck.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Accident
Photograph of a car wreck scene, a number of people are seen surrounding the scene.
Date:
1954
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from A. E. Wells to Truett Latimer, April 9, 1954]
Letter from A. E. Wells to Truett Latimer thanking him for the support he gave the Abilene Public Schools legislative program.
Date:
April 9, 1954
Creator:
Wells, A. E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Senator Lyndon B. Johnson to T. N. Carswell - February 15, 1954]
A letter addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Lyndon B. Johnson, United States Senate, Office of the Democratic Leader, dated February 15, 1954. Johnson expresses his appreciation for the advisement by Carswell on his views on the Bricker Amendment. Johnson advises that Senator Bricker offered amendments to his resolution and discusses his opinion on the subject. "I favor an amendment providing that any treaty or international agreement which conflicts with the Constitution shall not be of any force or effect. - any international agreement other than a treaty shall become effective as internal law in the United States only by an Act of Congress."
Date:
February 15, 1954
Creator:
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Governor Allan Shivers to T. N. Carswell - May 4, 1954]
A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Allan Shivers, for Governor, Austin, Texas, dated May 4, 1954. Shivers expresses his appreciation to Carswell for writing as he did about his decision to become a candidate for re-election noting his appreciation for Carswell's expressions of confidence and asks for his support, ideas and suggestions.
Date:
May 4, 1954
Creator:
Shivers, Allan
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft of Political Letter - "To My Friends and Votors in Precinct 12" - July, 1954
A draft of a form letter written by T. N. Carswell, dated July 1954. Carswell recounts the events of the 1952 campaign and election stressing the need to repeat in 1954 their 1952 victory, by the election of Allan Shivers. He borrows from a statement by Benjamin Harvey Hill, "Who saves his country, saves himself, saves all things, and all things saved do bless him! Who lets his country die, lets all things die, dies himself ignobly, and all things dying curse him!"
Date:
July 1954
Creator:
Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter and List of Texas Newspapers: From T. N. Carswell "to the Editor" regarding Judge Ralph Yarborough]
A letter To the Editor, written by T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, dated August 19, 1954. The letter asserts that "'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', has come to Texas, not in fiction, but in the person as Judge Ralph Yarborough, candidate for Governor." An attachment includes a list of Texas newspapers to receive the Letter to the Editor written by T. N. Carswell. The list is handwritten on business notepad paper advertising Maxwell Steel Co., Fort Worth 1, Texas.
Date:
August 19, 1954
Creator:
Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Jet Peters addressed to T. N. Carswell - August 25, 1954]
A postcard addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Tex and postmarked, FT. W & El Paso ED R.P.O.TR 7, Aug 25, 1954. The reverse side includes a form letter addressed to Tommy [T. N. Carswell] from Jet Peters dated August 25, 1954. Campaign card printed for Paul Brashear for State Representative with personal handwritten note advising how as a Shivers Democrat Peters helped carry Cisco for Ike saving their Tide Lands to clean up the mess in Washington, and he congratulates Carswell saying that his article in yesterday's Star Telegram "hit the spot". Peters also asks about Abilene: "How's the West Texas Chamber of Commerce? I hear its sick financially—Do get a big kick out of your Abilene's growth. I first knew the town in 1900."
Date:
August 25, 1954
Creator:
Peters, Jet
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History