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[News Script: Marriage license]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a county attorney investigating the validity of a marriage license of two men.
Date: October 6, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Marriage?]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a county attorney investigating the validity of a marriage license of two men.
Date: October 7, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.

Description: Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Spivey, Lillian Hale
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer

Description: This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cast of School Play

Description: Copy negative of the cast of a school play in Peach Creek, Texas. The group includes Andrew Hefner, Lillian Brockman, Nellie Maupin, Henry Davis, Beatrice Gilmore, May Brockman, Frankie Baskett, Manie Hodge, Bertie Baskett, Oma Johnston, Maggie Rucker, Aggie Rucker, Hettie Kirkland, Verna Smith, Gertie Gilmore, Suzie Milam, Jess Davis, Tom Hefner, Lewis Smith, Lela Hefner, Walter Milam and Eugene Milam. The group is arranged with three young men in military uniforms on either side of several … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Singing Class

Description: Copy negative of a singing class in Peach Creek, Texas. The back row has twelve men standing in dark suits and bow ties, including two men wearing hats. The front row has ten women and two young girls in dresses and ties, including seven women wearing hats. They are in front of a brick building. Written across the bottom of the photograph is, "Peach Creek Singing Class".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

School Picture

Description: Copy negative of a Peach Creek School group picture in 1898. The group includes twenty-three boys in suits and neckties, twenty-two girls in dresses, pinafores and bows and C.P. Webb seated in the center in a suit and bow tie. In front of the group are eighteen hats. Printed across the bottom of the photograph is, "Peach Creek School, Prof. C.P. Webb, Teacher. Photo by E.H. Webb, Feb. 9, 1898."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Wharton Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Wharton County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1906
Creator: Morris, J. W. & Giles, J. Bascom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Composition for Preserving Wood.

Description: Patent for a new and improved compound for “preserving all kinds of wood, in or above ground, but is especially adapted for preserving wood in salt water from the ravages of worms, barnacles and etc…” (Line 24-27) Ingredients, proportions of ingredients and mixing instructions are included. No illustration.
Date: July 12, 1881
Creator: Smith, Bat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Jose Hernandez - 1950-11-17]

Description: Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to Jose Hernandez of Rosenberg, Texas, dated November 17, 1950. Acknowledges Hernandez' attendance at a LULAC meeting in Wharton County, Texas. Also includes an invitation to attend a LULAC meeting and dance in Palacios, Texas.
Date: November 17, 1950
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Summary of LULAC meeting held at Wharton, Texas - 1950]

Description: Summary of LULAC meeting held at Wharton, Texas on November 12, 1950. Mentions attendance of 250 persons, discussion of problems in Wharton County and surrounding territory, and lists guests of honor. Indicates that a result of this meeting is a reorganization of the Texas City LULAC Council and the formation of a new council in Palacios, Texas.
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Letter from John J. Herrera - 1950-12-18]

Description: Carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera without name of addressee, dated December 18, 1950. Reports on receipt of Palacios, Texas, LULAC Council charter; installation of Wharton County Ladies LULAC Council; and interest in Eagle Lake, Texas, to form a LULAC Council.
Date: December 18, 1950
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Affidavit from Abel Cisneros - 1951-07-10]

Description: Statement from Abel Cisneros, President of Wharton County LULAC Council Number 170, notarized by Isabel S. Rivera, dated July 10, 1951. This statement is concerning a discriminatory incident in which three men of Mexican descent were refused service on grounds of their race.
Date: July 10, 1951
Creator: Cisneros, Abel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Telegram from Lloyd G. Rust, Jr., to John J. Herrera - 1953-01-05]

Description: Telegram from Lloyd G. Rust, Jr., Wharton County Attorney, to John J. Herrera, dated January 5, 1953. Rust notifies Herrera of the date and time of the Grand Jury hearing regarding conduct of an Officer Sifford. Rust invites Herrera to be a witness at this hearing.
Date: January 5, 1953
Creator: Rust, Lloyd G., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Affidavit from Matilde Cisneros - 1954]

Description: An affidavit from Matilde Cisneros, mother of Private Abel Cisneros. The purpose of the affidavit was to petition the United States Army for a dependency discharge for her son, Abel Cisneros. The document is not signed.
Date: 1954
Creator: Cisneros, Matilde
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Affidavit from Angelita Cisneros]

Description: Affidavit from Angelita Cisneros, sister of Private Abel Cisneros. The purpose of the affidavit is to petition the United States Army for a dependency discharge for Pvt. Abel Cisneros. The document is neither signed nor dated.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cisneros, Angelita
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Draft of affidavit for Matilde Cisneros]

Description: A draft copy of the affidavit for Matilde Cisneros, mother of Private Abel Cisneros. The purpose of the affidavit was to petition the United States Army for a dependency discharge for her son, Abel Cisneros.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cisneros, Matilde
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Affidavit from Dolores L. Cisneros - 1954-09-30]

Description: An affidavit from Dolores Cisneros, the wife of Private Abel Cisneros. Dolores lists the family's monthly living expenses and provides information about her medical condition. The document is not signed and has John J. Herrera as the Harris County Notary Public.
Date: September 30, 1954
Creator: Cisneros, Dolores L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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