Photograph of Arthur Bea Williams standing with Judge Arthur Tipps. Mrs. Williams is being sworn in as the first woman Justice of Peace in Wichita County.

Photograph of Arthur Bea Williams with her family at her swearing-in as justice of the peace. From left: Mary Blair-Moore, Arthur Bea Williams, her mother Margie Blackmon, and uncle Jack Blair. Her daughter, Andrea Williams, is taking the photo.

Audrey Kariel, Project Director for the building of Marshall Public Library, shares a joke with Truitt at a library function.

A young Billy Don Moyers smiles from the pages of a yearbook. Starting as a teenage newspaper reporter in his home town of Marshall, Texas, Moyers rose to national prominence as a high-level aide in Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. He later changed from print to television journalism, broadcasting news commentary and creating special subject documentaries. Now he is known simply as Bill Moyers; but he has never forgotten his roots.

Yearbook for Mineral Wells High School in Mineral Wells, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, teachers, and organizations.

Supporters who worked to realize a dream for a new Marshall Public Library were honored at a celebration dinner on October 19, 1973, two days before the official opening of the building. George Olincy, chairman of the Andrew Norman Foundation, speaks to the group at the Holiday Inn Motel. The Foundation gave a challenge grant to the Friends of a Public Library. Originally the offer was for $125, 000, but it grew to $175,000. To the right in the picture is Fenn Lewis, who chaired the successful fund drive for the Friends. Others are unidentified.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Compilation of forms that provide an overview of topics, names, and other content of original documents on microfilm at the Old Spanish Mission Historical Research Library.

Invitation for the confirmation exercises for the 1983 class of Ahavath Sholom synagogue, including a list of confirmands.

Yearbook for St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, teachers, and organizations.

During the early 1970's, various organisations contributed toward the building of a new public library in Marshall, Texas. In this newspaper photo, Fenn Lewis, fund drive chairman, accepts a donation from Johnny Barkett.

Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, right, former First Lady and a native of Harrison County, met with Fenn Lewis, left, president of the Marshall Friends of a Public Library, at the LBJ Library in Austin. Mrs. Johnson was honorary chairwoman of the National Gifts and Grants Committee of the Marshall Public Library Building Fund Drive. She and Lewis met to review plans for the new facility, which opened in October, 1973.

In this newspaper file photo, the Friends of a Public Library in Marshall, Texas award their first membership card. From left to right are Ken Duggins,City Manager, Tony Bridge, the first president of Friends, and Audrey Kariel, Friends Executive Board member.

Members of the Friends of a Public Library organization in Marshall, Texas examine a new library reference book in this publicity photo. Seated, left to right, are Fenn Lewis, Nancy Brown Conwell, and Jim Ivey. Standing, left to right, are Tony Bridge and Dick Brassell.