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[News Script: Jobs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man giving jobs to people on welfare.
Date: October 11, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion

Description: This book "is a compendium of America's Indian Wars and the mountain men, soldiers, cowboys and pioneers who took part in them" (dust-jacket). It includes information about all the major American Indian battles, the lives of notable men who fought in the battles, and the combat techniques employed. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1991
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Panola College
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Oral History Interview with Dora Geneva Clement

Description: Interview with Dora Geneva (Clement) Talkington (1886-1976) discussing how her family came to Texas and about growing up on her parents' farm, as well as other events including Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Waco when he was campaigning to be president.
Date: 1974~
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: McAmis, Odessa True Talkington & Talkington, Dora Geneva Clement
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Talkington Clement Family Archives

Mississippi Territory.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century settlements, military outposts, trails, areas of Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw tribal locations in Mississippi Territory. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1: 2,150,000].
Date: [1804..1815]
Creator: Lewis, Samuel, 1753 or 4-1822
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Portrait of Margaret McDowell Sleeper]

Description: Photograph of Margaret McDowell Stribling Sleeper, an elderly woman wearing austere black clothing and a bonnet. According to handwritten notes on the back of the photo, she was the wife of Gideon Sleeper, the mother of Gardner Southworth Sleeper, and the grandmother of Nannie Sleeper Evans.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Portrait of Margaret McDowell]

Description: Photograph of Margaret Stribling Sleeper, née McDowell. She is an elderly woman clad in austere clothing and is wearing a lace bonnet in her hair. On the back of the photo is a sticker with the text, "Margaret McDowell 1793-1864." The portrait hung in a descendant's home in Waco, Texas for many years.
Date: unknown
Creator: Willis, John Todd
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Map of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway and connections.

Description: Map shows the late nineteenth century path of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and "Indian Territory" [Oklahoma] boundaries, counties, and major cities are indicated. Includes seven geologic profiles in Texas with "elevations in feet above sea level." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,550,000].
Date: 1893?
Creator: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Postcard of Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of a wide dirt street between two strips of two- to three-story buildings, with small groups of people scattered throughout the street. Horses pull a few carts and buggies through the street, and one man rides a light-colored horse. Most of the people are looking up the street, away from the camera. Printed text at the top of the postcard identifies the street as Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: 19uu
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, March 9, 1998

Description: Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, World War II veteran and owner/operator of a plant nursery in Center Point, Texas. Mr. Mosty tells stories from his service in WWII, including how his unit was one of the first to meet liberated prisoners of war, as well as how he was wounded and taken prisoner. He also discusses studying at A&M, his work for the National Park Service, and running a plant nursery in the 1920s.
Date: March 9, 1998
Creator: Witt, Gerald & Mosty, Robert Lee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with Francis H. "Fuzzy" and Cora Nell Cunningham Swayze, May 28, 2008

Description: Interview with Frances Howland "Fuzzy" and Cora Nell Cunningham Swayze, a couple from Kerrville, Texas. The couple discusses their individual childhoods, life during the depression, and life in the Kerr County area. Mr. Swayze discusses his service in the Air Force and Mrs. Swayze discusses her teaching career.
Date: May 28, 2008
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Swayze, Francis H. & Swayze, Cora Nell Cunningham
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999

Description: Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, vice-chair of the Kerr County Historical Commission from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Snodgrass talks about growing up on a primitive ranch, struggling to survive during the Depression, meeting and marrying her husband, their family, their involvement with music, and her efforts to preserve the history of Kerr County. She also briefly discusses the honors and awards her volunteer work has earned her. Pages 2-13 include a written statement by Miles Abernathy… more
Date: September 25, 1999
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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