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[Letter from Ramon Sandoval to John J. Herrera - 1950-07-17] (open access)

[Letter from Ramon Sandoval to John J. Herrera - 1950-07-17]

Letter from Ramon Sandoval, LULAC Galveston Council, to John J. Herrera, dated July 17, 1950. Sandoval requests help selling tickets to the LULAC fundraising dance to be held July 29, 1950, at the Buccaneer Hotel in Galveston.
Date: July 17, 1950
Creator: Sandoval, Ramon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Off to Europe] (open access)

[News Script: Off to Europe]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U.S. troops boarding transport ships in Galveston to join Atlantic Pact forces in Europe under General Eisenhower.
Date: July 17, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Miss Texas] (open access)

[News Script: Miss Texas]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Miss Texas beauty contest in Galveston.
Date: July 28, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Airman confesses murdering family] (open access)

[News Script: Airman confesses murdering family]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the extrication and arrest of airman Ellis Lauhon for the murder of Ruby McPherson, her son George McPherson, and her mother Zola Norman.
Date: July 3, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston] captions transcript

[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 I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 14, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 14, 1951]

Letter to Cecile from her father about friends and family travelling to California, Korea, relations with Russia and China, anticipation of Russian attack, Chinese government, and taxes.
Date: July 14, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 2, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 2, 1951]

Letter to Cecile from her father about Korea, communism, Russia, China, finances, and investment.
Date: July 2, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 1, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 1, 1952]

Letter to Cecile from her father about Tim's recovery from an accident, income taxes, and her account with H. Kempner.
Date: July 1, 1952
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 16, 1950] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, July 16, 1950]

Letter to Cecile from her father about Aunt Jeane travelling to New York, US relations with Korea, Germany, Austria, Japan, Russia, Russia's actions, politics, economics, possible travel, and other personal matters.
Date: July 16, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, July 30, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, July 30, 1951]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner discussing his leave to Memphis and to respond should he hear from Henryk or Dave.
Date: July 30, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Feed] (open access)

[Invoice for Feed]

Invoice for items sold to D. W. Kempner by the Imperial Mercantile Company, including feed.
Date: July 6, 1950
Creator: Imperial Mercantile Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Henryk Stenzel, July 23, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Henryk Stenzel, July 23, 1951]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Henryk Stenzel discussing a travel arrangement to hold a ceremony for two urns containing Fanny and Ernestine Freund.
Date: July 23, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Dave Cohen, July 23, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Dave Cohen, July 23, 1951]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Dave Cohen discussing a travel arrangement to hold a ceremony for two urns containing Fanny and Ernestine Freund.
Date: July 23, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for One Zenith Radio Pack Battery Sold to D. W. Kempner] (open access)

[Invoice for One Zenith Radio Pack Battery Sold to D. W. Kempner]

Invoice for items sold to D. W. Kempner by Imperial Mercantile Company, including one #752W radio pack battery for a model 6G 601 Zenith radio.
Date: July 13, 1951
Creator: Imperial Mercantile Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[List of Tires and Tubes] (open access)

[List of Tires and Tubes]

A list containing sizes, amounts, and types of tires and tubes.
Date: 1950-07~
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James, July 11, 1950] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James, July 11, 1950]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James discussing the return of a sample rug from Alexander Smith and Sons after they canceled the order for reasons not mentioned.
Date: July 11, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Price Comparisons for Tires and Tubes] (open access)

[Price Comparisons for Tires and Tubes]

List of Price Comparisons for Tires and Tubes from Sugarland Industries, Goodrich, and Adolphus General.
Date: 1950-07~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for One Zenith Radio Pack Battery Sold to D. W. Kempner] (open access)

[Invoice for One Zenith Radio Pack Battery Sold to D. W. Kempner]

Invoice for items sold to D. W. Kempner by Imperial Mercantile Company, including one #752W radio pack battery for a model 6G 601 Zenith radio.
Date: July 13, 1951
Creator: Imperial Mercantile Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, July 31, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, July 31, 1951]

Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner stating that James will pick up thirty bales of alfalfa hay in Houston, Texas on the same day and then deliver it to Kempner in Galveston, Texas the next day.
Date: July 31, 1951
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Port City Market Report, July 12, 1951 (open access)

Port City Market Report, July 12, 1951

Report mailed from C. B. Johnson Live Stock Commission Company to D. W. Kempner providing a market report for the company's Port City Stock Yards and advertising their services. It states that the week had been the most productive of the year, and that an upcoming decline in market was likely.
Date: July 12, 1951
Creator: C. B. Johnson Live Stock Commission Company
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Vincent J. Schmitt, July 11, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Vincent J. Schmitt, July 11, 1951]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Vincent J. Schmitt thanking and declining to purchase property with reasoning.
Date: July 11, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to T. L. James, July 6, 1950] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to T. L. James, July 6, 1950]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James requesting an update on late delivery of carpets.
Date: July 6, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James, July 12, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James, July 12, 1951]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James requesting information on German, French, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Italian organizations that Kempner could contact regarding bringing a displaced person to work as a cook at the Galveston Orphans' Home.
Date: July 12, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 6, 1956] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 6, 1956]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing travel needs for the abroad trip, stock shares, and divorce business for Mary Jean.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History