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[Photograph 2012.201.B0175.0256]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The flight came during the governor's visit to the Oklahoma Air Guard's training exercise in Gulfport, Miss."
Date: October 21, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0580]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tommy Gray, Seminole, senior University of Oklahoma football player, is now on his third trip to the Sooners' training camp at Biloxi, Miss., and knows his way around the Buena Vista hotel, OU's Biloxi home."
Date: December 28, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0312]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Oklahoma former convicts, tabbed "real bad boys" by the FBI , Thursday were being held under heavy bond in Tupelo, Miss., after their capture in Corinth , Miss."
Date: June 5, 1952
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0289]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Low scores in the qualifying round of the women's Trans-Mississippi golf championship are shown above. from the left are Mary Ann Downey of Baltimore, the medalist with a 76."
Date: September 20, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0390.0389]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don't worry about the Sooner football secrets getting out at Biloxi where the Oklahoma eleven is training. Back on the job is that talented spycatcher of last year, Dr. C. B. McDonald, Oklahoma City dentist. It was McDonald who unmasked an LSU snooper last year and he's in Biloxi now with the advance guard of Sooner fans."
Date: December 28, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Vicksburg

Topographic quadrangle map of Vicksburg, Mississippi, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours, spot heights, and colors, with heights in meters and includes reliability diagram, index to adjoining sheets, index to boundaries, and graded tints in meters and feet. Scale 1:1,000,000
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[LeTourneau Industries Jack- Vinegaroo]

Photograph of the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944. The photograph shows the final testing for the jack named Vinegaroo built in 1957 by Marathon LeTourneau Vicksburg for Zapata Drilling.
Date: March 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[LeTourneau Industries]

Photograph of the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944. The photograph shows three rigs under construction.
Date: June 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[LeTourneau Industries]

Photograph of a completed offshore oil rig located in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig was built at the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944.
Date: 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[LeTourneau Hotel]

Photograph of a LeTourneau Industries hotel, which was designed by Evelyn LeTourneau of Longview, Texas. Evelyn was married to Robert G. LeTourneau, the founder of LeTourneau Industries. The photograph shows an aerial view of the hotel, which was built in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Date: 1950~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Review of Soils, Design and Field Observations, Enid Dam, Yocona River, Mississippi (open access)

Review of Soils, Design and Field Observations, Enid Dam, Yocona River, Mississippi

Summary: Enid Dam, a unit in the flood-control plan for the Yazoo River, is a rolled-fill structure about 85 ft high and 8400 ft long, and contains about 5-3/4 million cu yd of fill.
Date: October 1955
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter and Receipt:  From Laurence C. Jones to T. N. Carswell - October 19, 1959] (open access)

[Letter and Receipt: From Laurence C. Jones to T. N. Carswell - October 19, 1959]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Laurence C. Jones, Principal, The Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods, Mississippi, dated October 19, 1959. Letter of appreciation and assurance that the gift from Carswell has come at an opportune time. Enclosure includes: Printed receipt by Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods, Mississippi dated October 15, 1959. "Investment In Humanity" $2.00 received of Mr. T. N. Carswell. The reverse side includes printed verse; "I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear not; I will help thee."
Date: October 19, 1959
Creator: Jones, Laurence C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Rester Flower Shop - March 20, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Rester Flower Shop - March 20, 1959]

A letter addressed to Rester Flower Shop, Poplarville, Mississippi from T. N. Carswell, dated March 20, 1959. Carswell advises of an attached check to cover the cost of a corsage for Miss Thelma Batson for Easter and for flowers for her home. He directs them to send his enclosed note with the flowers.
Date: March 20, 1959
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Letter
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B1404.0190]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Oklahoma former convicts tabbed "real bad boys" by the FBI, Thursday were being held under heavy bond in Tupelo, Miss., after their capture in Corinth, Miss."
Date: 1952
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1261.0387]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lee Mach Stephens, whose sitting, Hazel Stephens was graduated from Chilocco and is now a nurse's aide in the Choctaw Hospital at Philadelphia, Miss."
Date: April 14, 1957
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1175.0398]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All of a football player's time training for the Sugar bowl is not sweat and tears. Sooner halfback Frank Silva and his pretty wife at the Biloxi boat harbor."
Date: December 28, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Forecasting Trafficability of Soils: Meteorological and Soil Data, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1949-1951 (open access)

Forecasting Trafficability of Soils: Meteorological and Soil Data, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1949-1951

Foreword: This report covers one part of a comprehensive study to determine the relationship between the trafficability of soils and the mobility of military vehicles.
Date: June 1952
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forecasting Trafficability of Soils, Report Number 3, The Development of Methods for Predicting Soil Moisture Content: Volume 2, Prediction Sites at Vicksburg Mississippi (open access)

Forecasting Trafficability of Soils, Report Number 3, The Development of Methods for Predicting Soil Moisture Content: Volume 2, Prediction Sites at Vicksburg Mississippi

Preface: The study was initiated in early 1951 to develop methods of predicting the moisture content of several soils in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Date: October 1954
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forecasting Trafficability of Soils: Meteorological and Soil Data, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1948-1949 (open access)

Forecasting Trafficability of Soils: Meteorological and Soil Data, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1948-1949

From foreword: This report covers one phase of a comprehensive study to determine the relationship between the trafficability of soils and the mobility of military vehicles.
Date: October 1951
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to W. H. Louviere, September 30, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to W. H. Louviere, September 30, 1955]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to W. H. Louviere discussing a clipping from the Journal of Commerce which deals with the handling and transportation of bulk refined sugar.
Date: September 30, 1955
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. H. Louviere to I. H. Kempner, February 17, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from W. H. Louviere to I. H. Kempner, February 17, 1955]

Letter from W. H. Louviere to I. H. Kempner discussing business updates.
Date: February 17, 1955
Creator: Louviere, William H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Benito Longoria, Jr. to Thomas L. James, November 12, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Benito Longoria, Jr. to Thomas L. James, November 12, 1955]

Letter from Benito Longoria, Jr. to Thomas L. James discussing the purchase of seed.
Date: November 12, 1955
Creator: Longoria, Benito, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Thomas L. James to Benito Longoria, Jr., June 27, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Thomas L. James to Benito Longoria, Jr., June 27, 1955]

Letter from Thomas L. James to Benito Longoria, Jr. discussing planting seed in Mexico.
Date: June 27, 1955
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History