The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, July 1987 - April, 1988 Page: 91
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As expected, large cities led small towns in culture and recreation. In
combined rankings, Dallas led other cities in that category, and Texas
City was last. In cities of more than 100,000, Austin, San Antonio, and
Dallas led the field in the overall quality-of-life scale. Midland, Abilene,
and Mesquite led among middle-sized cities, and Denton, Temple, and
Hurst topped the list of cities with less than 50,000 population.
Urban Life in Texas is available from bookstores or from the University
of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin 78713. The cost of the book is
$25, plus $2 for mail orders.
Accessions
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas History Library at the Alamo
has acquired the papers of John Herndon James. This collection, one of
the most extensive ever presented to the library, was given by James's
grandchildren, Dr. John H. J. Sykes, Dr. Edwin M. Sykes, and Maria
Morrison Sykes. John Herndon James was a prominent attorney in San
Antonio from the 1870s to 1893, when he was appointed the first chief
justice of the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals. According to Sharon R.
Crutchfield, director of the D.R.T. library and a member of the Associa-
tion, the papers include material on colonization, land transactions with
maps, military posts, stage lines, railroads, the cattle industry, and many
other areas of interest from the last half of the nineteenth century in South
and West Texas. For more information contact the Library of the D.R.T.
of Texas at the Alamo, P.O. Box 2599, San Antonio 78299 (telephone
512/255-1071).
Russell Lee of Austin, internationally known documentary photographer
who died in August of 1986, donated a large collection of his photographs
and negatives to the Barker Texas History Center at the University of
Texas at Austin. Lee also donated his extensive slide collection of
photographs spanning his forty-year career, when he worked for the federal
government, private corporations, and national magazines, and then as
an independent photographer. Most of the materials given to UT, Austin,
are from the period of the last thirty years, when he was an independent
photographer. Among the 7,000 to 9,000 works given to the Barker Center
are images ranging from political rallies of the 1950s in hot dusty Texas
towns to a grinning laborer from the Calabria region of Italy, from a re-
union of wizened cowboys in the Texas Panhandle to a 1977 trip on a
Mississippi riverboat. Don E. Carleton, director of the Barker Center
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