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Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Postcard of Railroad Street During 1913 Flood]
Postcard of Railroad Street, Richmond, Texas after 1913 flood. Water seen along bottom and center of photo. Train in (center) background. Tent in top left corner.
Date:
December 10, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar.
Patent for " invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar" (lines 5-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Ellis, Emmett A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new automatic car coupling design for train cars, including illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1887
Creator:
De May, Eugene A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Richmond Reporter. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 10, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 10, 1859
Creator:
Benton, Samuel A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to Jose Hernandez - 1950-12-06]
Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to Jose Hernandez of Rosenberg, Texas, dated December 6, 1950. Update on LULAC events in Palacios, Bay City, and Eagle Lake, Texas, and originally enclosed LULAC literature.
Date:
December 6, 1950
Creator:
Herrera, John J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Southwest Chinese Journal (Stafford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 1, 1982
Bilingual monthly newspaper from Stafford, Texas, published for the Houston area Chinese community, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 1, 1982
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Block 3
Parent map for Wharton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 11, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Block 19
Parent map for Wharton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 11, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Index
Index map for Wharton County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:114,632.
Date:
December 11, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Austin County, Block 14
Parent map for Austin County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Block 18
Parent map for Wharton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 11, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Block 11
Parent map for Wharton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date:
December 11, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Čechoslovák (Rosenberg, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 24, 1919
Weekly Czech language newspaper from Rosenberg, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 24, 1919
Creator:
Kužel, Ant.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Čechoslovák (Rosenberg, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 1919
Weekly Czech language newspaper from Rosenberg, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 3, 1919
Creator:
Kužel, Ant.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Austin County, Block 17
Parent map for Austin County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date:
December 14, 2010
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Richmond Opinion. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Richmond, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1887
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to George Andre, December 30, 1954]
Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to George Andre discussing a request for the records of bonuses given from the years 1950-1954.
Date:
December 30, 1954
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Imperial Sugar Company Actual and Projected Operations: December 2, 1954]
Monthly report documenting Imperial Sugar operational expenses for the year, broken down by actual sales and production, with estimated operational numbers for the remainder of the year.
Date:
December 2, 1954
Creator:
Imperial Sugar Company
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from George Andre to Isaac Herbert Kempner, December 30, 1954]
Letter from George Andre to Isaac Herbert Kempner discussing operations and how they will break even for the month of December, elaborating on inventories, sales accounts, and sugar plants.
Date:
December 30, 1954
Creator:
Andre, George L.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Imperial Sugar Company Statement, December 31, 1954]
Imperial Sugar Company financial statement for 1954.
Date:
December 31, 1954
Creator:
Imperial Sugar Company
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Herman Lurie to R. M. Armstrong, December 23, 1954]
Letter from Herman Lurie to R. M. Armstrong discussing company competition and quotas for refiners.
Date:
December 23, 1954
Creator:
Lurie, Herman
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. H. Louviere to Imperial Sugar Company, December 6, 1954]
Letter from W. H. Louviere to Imperial Sugar Company discussing the scheduled time for the quarterly meeting of the directors of the Imperial Sugar Company.
Date:
December 6, 1954
Creator:
Louviere, William H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to George Andre, December 31, 1954]
Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to George Andre discussing a bill from the A. W. Quinn Distributing Company from the month of November.
Date:
December 31, 1954
Creator:
Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History