Description:
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively…
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Description:
Volume of popular folklore of Texas, including tales about the origins of various cities and towns, personal anecdotes, songs, superstitions and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 341.
Description:
Bow tie in pre-tied type of heavy cotton faille(?) fabric printed with geometric design in dull dark green, blue, purple, black, white, and dull red. Adjustable strap, with metal hook and loop clasp.
Designer's label on strap behind bow: "Memphis / Milano"
Measurements: Bow: 4 3/4" wide x 2" high. Strap: 5/8" wide.
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a three-car pileup on Texas, Somerville, left four persons dead and two others seriously injured.
Date:
August 20, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
From Significance and value of Analyses of Coal: "The analyses published in this report cover samples of coal collected in many different parts of the country with unusual care by experiences men, in such manner as to make them representative of extensive beds of coal."
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From Introduction: "This volume contains the descriptions of the samples whose analyses are published in the preceding volume, Part I of this bulletin. The descriptions have been compiled from the notebooks of the persons who collected the samples, have been condensed from accounts given in published reports of the United States Geological Survey, or have furnished by the collection themselves. Inasmuch as the descriptions represent the work of many persons during a period of six years, and ina…
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Photograph of Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX. The courthouse faces the left side of the photo as it sits on a green lawn enclosed by a sidewalk, in front of which is a green parallel-parked car. The corner of a second vehicle appears in the bottom right corner of the photo. On the right side of the courthouse's lawn is a green bench that a person sits on, accompanied by a tall tree and a short lamp post. On the left side of the image, next to the walkway leading to the courthouse's door…
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Photograph of Milam City Jail House in Cameron, TX. A cracked pavement road fills the bottom third of the image, beyond which a red brick building with white stone accents sits amongst greenery. Bushes of varying sizes line the building and occupy its lawn, which is enclosed by a curb and has posts along the edge facing the road as well as a red and white fire hydrant towards the center of the image. To the left of the courthouse and its plants is a white car parked facing the building next to …
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Description:
Volume of popular folklore of Texas, including tales about the origins of various cities and towns, personal anecdotes, songs, superstitions and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 341.
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the rapid construction of an educational building in one day at a church in the small town of Milano.
Date:
July 29, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a 5-year-old Cameron boy who became third child to die of burns sustained in an automobile fire.
Date:
February 16, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas constitutional convention who was presented a proposed resolution asking Congress to move Veterans day back to November 11th.
Date:
March 7, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Text for an article published in the June 2000 issue of Texas Highways magazine about Edna Westbrook Trigg and the first girl's tomato club of Texas.
Description:
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the rapid construction of an educational building in one day at a church in the small town of Milano.
Date:
July 29, 1953
Duration:
3 minutes 13 seconds
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of house speaker Price Daniel Junior who will receive a report from a Texas House Committee on Education, calling for boosting state aid to local school district by 600 million dollars per year.
Date:
September 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
A) Wrap jacket of gold silk. Hip length. Long, set-in sleeves; straight with no cuffs. Mock revers neckline. No closure; unlined. Designer's label: "Giorgio Armani / A Milano Borgonuovo 21"
B) Webbed tie belt of matching gold silk; 1.5" wide.
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about governor Dolph Briscoe who was in Fort Worth to address the 59th annual sheep and goat raisers convention.
Date:
July 16, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the national guardsmen who joined stockman state officials and local officials to battle an outbreak of anthrax which is estimated to have killed about 200 cattle in central Texas.
Date:
July 16, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about governor Dolph Briscoe who authorized the use of Texas national guard to help control an outbreak of highly contagious Anthrax disease found in eight North Central Texas counties.
Date:
July 15, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas animal health commission which announced that the entire supply of Anthrax vaccine is being funneled into central Texas cattle country.
Date:
July 17, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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