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Oral History Interview with R. B. Smithwick, November 17, 1990

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Interview with R. B. Smithwick concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Smithwick worked at camps in Farmersville, Texas (Company 869) and Kaufman, Texas (Company 869).
Date: November 17, 1990
Creator: Carter, Susan & Smithwick, R. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Glenn F. Davis, March 3, 1993

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Interview with Glenn F. Davis, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Plano, Texas. Davis discusses his family, farming background, and working for the CCC at camps in Colorado, Texas, and California during the Great Depression.
Date: March 3, 1993
Creator: Wilson, David & Davis, Glenn F.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Clarence Shockey, October 7, 1990

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Interview with Clarence Shockey, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Ridgeway, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression. It includes an appendix with newspaper clippings about Shockey's efforts to host a reunion.
Date: October 7, 1990
Creator: Dickey, Richard C. & Shockey, Clarence
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Noel Lisboa, February 14, 2023

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Interview with Noel Lisboa, a Filipino personal trainer from Plano, Texas. Lisboa discusses growing up in the Philippines, Catholic education there, Filipino cuisine, family traditions and holidays, experiences with a political uprising, immigrating to the United States, food, life, and holidays in the United States compared to the Philippines, gang activity in the U.S., the fitness industry, and his community.
Date: February 14, 2023
Creator: OShea, May & Lisboa, Noel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989

Interview with Joe C. Turner, a United States Navy veteran from Merryville, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin.
Date: September 19, 1989
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[John S. Heard Ledger #4: 1924-1928] (open access)

[John S. Heard Ledger #4: 1924-1928]

Ledger containing financial records of John S. Heard documenting expenses, deposits, and investments, organized by various fund locations and sellers. There are index entries at the front and a number of loose notes that have been inserted or paperclipped into the book.
Date: 1924/1928
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
J.S. Heard's Inventory Book (open access)

J.S. Heard's Inventory Book

Ledger documenting various assets held by John Heard including furnishings and personal items, properties, investments, and bills receivable.
Date: {1913-09-23,1920-01-01}
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[John S. Heard Ledger #3: 1920-1924] (open access)

[John S. Heard Ledger #3: 1920-1924]

Ledger containing financial records of John S. Heard documenting expenses, deposits, and investments, organized by various fund locations and sellers. There are index entries at the front.
Date: 1920/1924
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[John S. Heard Ledger #2: 1913-1919] (open access)

[John S. Heard Ledger #2: 1913-1919]

Ledger containing financial records of John S. Heard documenting expenses, deposits, and investments, organized by various fund locations and sellers. There are index entries at the front.
Date: 1913/1919
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Index to Stock Register] (open access)

[Index to Stock Register]

Book containing an alphabetical listing of selected stock information that can be found in a separate ledger, which documents more information about investment shares and accounting. Each index entry lists the name of the company for the stock and a page number in the register.
Date: 1913~/1920~
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Doyle Griffin, December 11, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Doyle Griffin, December 11, 1982

Transcript of an interview with Doyle Griffin, owner and operator of R & R Motor Supply, Inc. in Denton, Texas. Griffin discusses his family background, his employment history, his purchase of R & R Motor Supply in 1944 and his experiences as a business owner, as well as his personal hobbies such as raising quarter horses and boat racing.
Date: December 11, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffin, Doyle
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Amy Newsom scrapbook] (open access)

[Amy Newsom scrapbook]

Loose pages of a scrapbook that belonged to Amy Newsom, a student of North Texas State Normal College in the 1910s. Many of the photographs depict Newsom and other female students who resided in the Gallagher House, a boarding house in Denton, Texas. These photos show the students studying, posing in front of the house, exercising, and participating in other social activities around campus and Denton. "Ma and Pa" Gallagher, presumably the owners of the house, are also pictured as is William Bruce, the university president at the time. Individual photographs of Newsom's "friends and classmates" are featured and labeled either with first and last names or the individual's relationship to Amy. These individual photographs include photos of Amy Newsom and of her younger brother, Clyde Newsom. In addition to photos from Newsom's time in college, the scrapbook also contains photographs and postcards from a trip to Palacios, Texas, as well as "miscellaneous" photos of a house in Celina, Texas, and of a creek.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Newsom, Amy Eliza, 1892-1973
System: The UNT Digital Library
[John S. Heard Ledger #1: 1893-1913] (open access)

[John S. Heard Ledger #1: 1893-1913]

Ledger containing financial records of John S. Heard documenting expenses, deposits, and investments, organized by various fund locations and sellers. There is a card for Royal Insurance Company included with the ledger.
Date: 1893-06/1913
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Stock Certificate Register: 1897-1937] (open access)

[Stock Certificate Register: 1897-1937]

Ledger containing stock certificate records for investments in several businesses. There are loose papers at the end of the ledger including receipts, notes, and letters.
Date: 1897/1937
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Day Book: 1893-1906] (open access)

[Day Book: 1893-1906]

Ledger containing John S. Heard's daily financial transactions, appointments, and notes.
Date: 1893/1906
Creator: Heard, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Hannah Lee, March 15, 2011

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Interview with Hyei-ok "Hannah" Lee, a jeweler and immigrant to Texas from Seoul, Korea. Lee discusses growing up and her education, her family, her children's schooling, traditional Korean family structure, and cultural differences and similarities. In appendix are photographs of items in Lee's home discussed in the interview, and explanations of cultural customs mentioned.
Date: March 15, 2011
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah & Lee, Hyai-ok (Hannah)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Hui Sun, November 18, 2012

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Interview with Hui Sun, a Chinese-American immigrant from Ankang, Shaanxi, China. Hui Sun discusses her childhood, her marriage, coming to the United States, American and Chinese culture, her children, parenting, her local Chinese community, Chinese holidays, reflections on love and personal growth, and her service in the People's Liberation Army.
Date: November 18, 2012
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Sun, Hui
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Tanya Kiboko, October 11, 2011

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Interview with Tanya Kiboko, an immigrant to Texas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kiboko discusses her education, her family, Congolese society, languages, learning English, culture shock, food, markets, attending Wiley College, her husband, differences in structure between Western and Congolese families, and reflections on life.
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Clower, John & Kiboko, Tanya
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Harve D. King, May 22, 2001

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Interview with Harve D. King, a Army WWII veteran from Copeville, Texas, who served in the 350th Engineer Regiment. King discusses his upbringing on a cotton farm, school in Farmersville, discrimination as an African-American, attending Texas College, joining the Army, training, assignment at Camp Shelby, deployment to New Guinea, operations at Hollandia, building a hospital, recreation, visiting Australia, returning to the United States and discharge, and life after the war.
Date: May 22, 2001
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Harve D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Phillip L. Daffron, February 9, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Phillip L. Daffron, February 9, 1977

Interview with Phillip Daffron, a Army WWII veteran from Plano, Texas. Daffron discusses his experiences at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 including his education and entry into service, assignment to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii in 1940, training in field artillery, events during the day of the attack at Schofield Barracks and Punchbowl Crater, subsequent events on Oahu, and some details about his service afterwards.
Date: February 9, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Daffron, Phillip L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James C. Venable, April 13, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James C. Venable, April 13, 1971

Interview with James C. Venable regarding his experiences in the military and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. Mr. Venable was captured while serving in the Marine Corps on Wake Island.
Date: April 13, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Venable, James C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore: 1916-1954 (open access)

The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore: 1916-1954

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains information about folklore in Texas and Mexico, including folk songs and ballads, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, sermons, stories about games and celebrations, folklore of Texas plants, and information about folk remedies. The index begins on page 349.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The Portal to Texas History
My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression (open access)

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression

Eddie Stimpson Jr.'s personal memoirs from his childhood. He recalls sharecropping life, the ways he and his family got by financially, his faith, African-American culture at the time, and The Great Depression. Includes photographs and illustrations to accompany the story. Index starts on page 163.
Date: 1996
Creator: Stimpson, Eddie, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of Frisco 1902-1976 (open access)

The History of Frisco 1902-1976

Compiled history of Frisco, Texas including information about its origins and founding, prominent historic persons in the community, schools and churches, and other information about life in the city.
Date: April 1976
Creator: Frisco Bicentennial Society
System: The Portal to Texas History