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[Roundtable Interview of Dr. Jose A. Cardenas, Dr. Maria R. Montecel, Alberto Vilareal, and Dr. Arcadia Lopez]

Description: Video of a roundtable discussion and interview of important figures in the Texas Bilingual Education movement. The interviewees include Dr. Arcadia Hernandez Lopez, Dr. Jose A. Cardenas, Alberto Villareal, and Dr. Maria Robledo Montecel. They discuss their own pasts with bilingual education and english-only speaking programs as well as the history of Bilingual Education in Texas.
Date: 2008~
Duration: 57 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Texas Association of Bilingual Education
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cherokee County History

Description: This volume discusses the history of Cherokee County including its communities, geography, and major events. The statement on the dedication page says: "This book is the story of Cherokee County from its earliest days through its founding and development and the achievements of its people to the present -- its rich heritage from its founders, its lasting contributions to the Republic of Texas, the State of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. This book hi… more
Date: 2001
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Commission (Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring, 2001

Description: Biannual publication "devoted to the rich history of Dallas and North Central Texas" as a way to "examine the many historical legacies--social, ethnic, cultural, political--which have shaped the modern city of Dallas and the region around it."
Date: 2001
Creator: Dallas Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

Historic Matagorda County, Volume 1

Description: First volume describing the history of Matagorda County, Texas, written in two parts with supplementary reference information. Part 1 includes sixteen chapters that outline the general background of the county and information for each time period from European exploration through the Texas sesquicentennial (1986). Part 2 provides more detailed information about the communities, organizations and businesses, and religion and education. Index starts on page 711.
Date: 1986
Creator: Matagorda County Book Committee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Palacios Area Historical Association

Historic Matagorda County, Volume 2

Description: Second volume describing the history of Matagorda County, Texas, containing part 3 of the text. This volume contains a compilation of submitted biographies and family histories for people living in Matagorda County Name index starts on page 581.
Date: 1986
Creator: Matagorda County Book Committee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Palacios Area Historical Association
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[News Clip: Muzzle loaders]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 1, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pioneer Practice]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 26, 1985, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Anne Marrou Speaking to Visitors at a Chuckwagon]

Description: Photograph of Anne Marrou at a chuck wagon speaking to festival visitors at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a purple pioneer dress with a matching bonnet, facing the visitors who are on the right. On display on the chuck wagon's fold down table are three different kinds of rope, an antique rolling pin and wooden bowl, an iron rod, and a few types of barbed wire. Other festival booths are visible in the background.
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Female Reenactors in Costume Doing Laundry]

Description: Photograph of USAA volunteers portraying fort laundresses at the Texas Folklife Festival. The two women are dressed in pioneer clothing, kneeling down at a silver wash bucket pretending to do laundry. The woman on the left is wearing a blue dress with red-checkered trim and a red-checkered apron. The woman on the right is wearing a gray blouse and white skirt. Both of their bonnets are not being worn but instead tied around their necks. They are part of a larger scene of reenactors, some of who… more
Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sarah Hughes]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 24, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pioneer Preps]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 21, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Weaving on Loom]

Description: Photograph of Sandy Booth in a blue bonnet and a pioneer dress weaving on a table-top loom at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. She is a member of the Brazoria Militia reenactors showing Texas life in 1832.
Date: [1982-08-05..1982-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Living History Performers at Frontier Fort]

Description: Photograph of Living History performers demonstrating daily life at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. On the left, a woman in pioneer clothing is washing clothes on a washboard. A man wearing a Civil War era military uniform is standing to the right of her, holding a rifle. Right behind them, a stone house is visible.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[USAA Volunteers at Frontier Fort]

Description: Photograph of USAA Volunteers in costume at Frontier Fort at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The group of women are wearing pioneer costumes and standing on the porch of a stone cabin.
Date: [1981-08-06..1981-08-09]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Members of the Brazoria Militia from Brazoria County]

Description: Photograph of three members of the Brazoria Militia, two men and a woman, from Brazoria County at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two men are standing on either side of the woman, holding their hats over their chests. The man on the right is very young. All of them are wearing pioneer clothing.
Date: [1979-08-02..1979-08-05]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Kathleen Smolik Laury Demonstrating Drop Spinning]

Description: Photograph of Kathleen Smolik Laury demonstrating drop spinning at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a floral pioneer dress with an apron and a bonnet. With her left hand she is holding up the raw fibers to be spun and her right hand is holding a dowel which collects the finished yarn.
Date: [1977-08-04..1977-08-07]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Funeral Director's Research. Attics, Trunks Give Up History]

Description: Newspaper clipping discussing Jack North's research process for his book and how he discovered a biscuit that belonged to Thomas Henry Floyd. The clipping also provides details about North's book and the type of stories he covers regarding the pioneers of Abilene. The reverse side of the clipping includes a portion of a "Dear Abby" column and marriage announcements.
Date: July 31, 1974
Creator: Stoler, Susie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: McMurry University Library

[Hush Puppies Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Johanna Olander Wimberly, from Austin, demonstrating how to make hush puppies with cornmeal from her husband's grist mill at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is smiling and dressed in pioneer clothes, with a white bonnet and apron. Pinned to her apron bib is a paper cutout of an ear of corn. She is standing behind a table with a large mixing bowl full of corn dough. A few balls of corn dough have been placed in a wire basket strainer, which she is holding.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Melody Porter in Lye Soap Booth]

Description: Photograph of Melody Porter standing in the pioneer lye soap booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in pioneer clothing, complete with a red bonnet. At the top of the booth two signs read, "Dorothy Buchanan, Pioneer Lye Soap, Bryan, Texas" and, "Evelyn Johnson, Pioneer Lye Soap, Mesquite, Texas". At the front of the booth a basket of soaps is on display. All kinds of soap making materials are visible on a table inside the booth. Hanging at the back of the booth is a painted scene … more
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Soap Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Evelyn Johnson, from Mesquite, explaining how to make lye soap in the pioneer lye soap booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is dressed in a pioneer bonnet and hat, holding two glass jars. In front of her are two large ceramic mixing bowls containing ingredients for soap making.
Date: [1972-09-07..1972-09-10]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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