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Several Men Boarding Mexicana Airplane

Description: Photograph of ten men and one female flight attendant standing on aircraft stairs. All of the men are wearing suits and neckties, seven are wearing eyeglasses and all but two are wearing hats. A banner on the side of the stairs reads, "CIA. MEXICANA DE AVIACION".
Date: May 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

Farmfico Luncheon, April 22, 1953

Description: Photograph of many men in suits and ties gathered around a very large dining table for a Farmfico luncheon. The table is covered in dishes and bouquets of flowers. In the foreground is an electric fan and a film projector. The room has many tall pillars and windows.
Date: April 22, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Letter from Jacob I. Rodriguez to John J. Herrera - August 26, 1953]

Description: Letter from Jacob I. Rodriguez, Executive Secretary-Manager of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio, Texas, to John J. Herrera, dated August 26, 1953. Rodriguez sends an invitation to Herrera to attend Fiestas Patrias in Mexico City September 12-17, 1953. An interview with Mexican President Ruiz Cortines is on the agenda. Travel details and costs are also discussed.
Date: August 26, 1953
Creator: Rodriguez, Jacob I.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[News Script: News brief -- polio victim]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Lake Dallas man returning home in an iron lung after contracting polio while attending college in Mexico City.
Date: December 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to D. W. Kempner and Robert Lee Kempner, July 6, 1953]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to D. W. Kempner and Robert Lee Kempner recommending selling 2750 "A" and "B" units of Tidelands Royalty Agency to eight leading interests in the firm for $750.00 each. I.H. Kempner believes this is a better option than holding onto the units indefinitely with the expectation that they will not realize a profit. This recommendation is based on a newspaper clipping attached to the letter.
Date: July 6, 1953
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[News Script: Builders welcomed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 20 nationally-recognized home builders winning a fishing trip to Mexico, sponsored by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Company.
Date: November 29, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Zookeeper finds new type lizard]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a San Antonio zookeeper, John Werler, discovering a new species of lizard in Mexico and putting it on display at the San Antonio Zoo.
Date: March 1, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 4 - Vacations and Holidays]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including an Easter meal and Easter egg hunt (00:00 - 08:54), children on a swing set and posing for the camera (08:54 - 09:57), fishing and boating at the Ferndale Club (09:47 - 12:29), Elizabeth's confirmation on April 26, 1953 (12:29-13:24; 32:50 - 35:04), a vacation in Mexico (17:52 - 19:13), rides and exhibits at the State Fair of Texas including a Texas & Pacific Train, Big Tex, and a Ferris Wheel… more
Date: 1953-04/1953-12
Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.777461 -96.758909
Partner: UNT Media Library

Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to David F. Weston and Dan Oppenheimer, July 7, 1953]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to David F. Weston and Dan Oppenheimer discussing about the Pan American Exploration Company and the geophysical pictures that it took for the submerged tidelands in the Gulf of Mexico off of the U. S. coast. And he talks about the possibility of buying one of these unsold pictures with all the eight families interests through H. Kempner and the costs that each would incur. Finally, does talk about his upcoming trip and tells the families that any inquiries or decision… more
Date: July 7, 1953
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: None
Partner: Rosenberg Library

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 56, July 1952 - April, 1953

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 581.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Texas State Historical Association
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