[Four Members of a Band Playing on Stage]

Photograph of four members of a band standing on stage, entertaining at the inauguration of Governor of Texas Beauford Jester. Two men are holding guitars and two men are holding fiddles.
Date: [1949-01-17,1949-01-18]
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Beauford Jester and His Wife at His Inauguration]

Photograph of Beauford Jester walking at his inauguration party. He is dressed in a dark-colored suit, and his wife is next to him in a dark-colored dress. There are people sanding on either side of them, making a path for them to walk through.
Date: [1949-01-17,1949-01-18]
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Inaugural Festivities for Governor Jester]

Photograph of a large group of people wearing formal clothing standing on a stage at the inauguration of the Governor of Texas, Beauford Jester. There is a large bow hanging on the wall above them.
Date: [1949-01-17,1949-01-18]
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Square Dancing]

Photograph of a room of approximately 100 people square dancing in a ballroom at the inauguration of the Governor of Texas, Beauford Jester.
Date: [1949-01-17..1948-01-18]
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Hon. Duke Godard, January 17, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Hon. Duke Godard, January 17, 1949]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Hon. Duke Godard discussing an editorial in the Houston Post about the nearly fourteen thousand persons in mental hospitals and asylums in Texas needing better attention and care.
Date: January 17, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History