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[Couple Dancing]

Description: Photograph of and older couple dancing at an event. The woman is wearing a yellow patterned dress and the man is wearing a bolo tie and their arms are interlocked.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Five People With a Car]

Description: Photograph of five people, two women and three men, standing in front of a car. The women are wearing dresses with long skirts and there is a suitcase on the ground in front of one of the women. The car has a canvas top with open sides and appears to be an early 20th century model.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Footsteps Across The Years

Description: Compilation of historical information about events happening in and around Kerrville, Texas, coinciding with national events or historical periods. It includes a list, at the end, of persons or families that moved to Kerrville before 1925 and still had descendants living in the county at the time of publication.
Date: March 1976
Creator: Furman, Elizabeth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

More Texas Tales

Description: Book of anecdotes by Bob Ramsey, a hunter, rancher, and wildlife specialist about growing up and living in Texas Hill Country.
Date: 2002
Creator: Ramsey, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Nostalgia

Description: A book of poetry written by Harriet Garrett. Contents: Nostalgia -- Spring and Autumn -- Thoughts of Home -- The Land of Yesterday -- Memories -- To You, My Friend -- To a Friend in California -- An Old Refrain -- The Great Adventure -- The Return of a Soldier -- On Reading Two Poems of the World War -- The Message -- Shadows -- Mother -- The Valley of the Shadow -- On the Death of My Father -- “Hope Springs Eternal” -- Dear Lads of Mine -- Dear, Familiar Faces -- One More River -- America -- … more
Date: 1941
Creator: Garrett, Harriet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with A. B. Bell and R. A. Bell, October 18, 2016

Description: Interview with Arthur Baker Bell and Robert Alan Bell, alumni of Tivy High School, from Kerrville, Texas. The Bell brothers recount their memories of the public Cascade Swimming Pool, Robert's time as a university swimmer, Arthur's hitchhiking trip to Alaska, and their community activities that have occurred since their retirement.
Date: October 18, 2016
Duration: 54 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Bell, Arthur Baker & Bell, Robert Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with A. B. Bell and R. A. Bell, October 18, 2016

Description: Interview with Arthur Baker Bell and Robert Alan Bell, alumni of Tivy High School, from Kerrville, Texas. The Bell brothers recount their memories of the public Cascade Swimming Pool, Robert's time as a university swimmer, Arthur's hitchhiking trip to Alaska, and their community activities that have occurred since their retirement.
Date: October 18, 2016
Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Bell, Arthur Baker & Bell, Robert Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Barbara Kiefer Schellhase and Walter Schellhase, October 3, 2013

Description: Interview with Barbara Kiefer Schellhase and Walter Schellhase, a couple who retired in Kerrville, Texas. The couple discusses their individual family histories, their childhoods in Kerrville, their move away from the area, the lumberyard company they owned together in Louisiana, and their work on restoring the A. C. Schreiner family home during their retirement.
Date: October 3, 2013
Duration: 1 hour 56 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis; Schellhase, Barbara Kiefer & Schellhase, Walter Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Bertha Elizabeth Real Priour, October 6, 2016

Description: Interview with Bertha Elizabeth Real Priour, a descendant of the Kerr County Real pioneer family, from Kerrville, Texas. Priour speaks of her memories growing up on a ranch on Turtle Creek, as well as her family history.
Date: October 6, 2016
Duration: 56 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Collins, Dennis; Priour, Don & Priour, Bertha Elizabeth Real
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Bertha Elizabeth Real Priour, October 6, 2016

Description: Interview with Bertha Elizabeth Real Priour, a descendant of the Kerr County Real pioneer family, from Kerrville, Texas. Priour speaks of her memories growing up on a ranch on Turtle Creek, as well as her family history.
Date: October 6, 2016
Duration: 56 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Collins, Dennis & Priour, Bertha Elizabeth Real
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Bobby D. Blackburn, December 21, 2016

Description: Interview with Bobby D. Blackburn, a retired FBI agent and firearms identification specialist, from Kerrville, Texas. He speaks about his memories of growing up in Kerrville and his time working with the FBI.
Date: December 21, 2016
Duration: 53 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Blackburn, Bobby D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Bobby D. Blackburn, December 21, 2016

Description: Interview with Bobby D. Blackburn, a retired FBI agent and firearms identification specialist, from Kerrville, Texas. He speaks about his memories of growing up in Kerrville and his time working with the FBI.
Date: December 21, 2016
Duration: 52 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Blackburn, Bobby D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Cecil Vernon Wellborn, March 31, 2015

Description: Interview with Cecil Vernon Wellborn, a retired civil engineer who helped construct the Dallas City Hall, from Center Point, Texas. Wellborn speaks of his time as a civil engineer, specifically his work on the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kerrville and the Dallas City Hall.
Date: March 31, 2015
Duration: 47 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Collins, Dennis & Wellborn, Cecil Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Cecil Vernon Wellborn, March 31, 2015

Description: Interview with Cecil Vernon Wellborn, a retired civil engineer who helped construct the Dallas City Hall, from Center Point, Texas. Wellborn speaks of his time as a civil engineer, specifically his work on the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kerrville and the Dallas City Hall.
Date: March 31, 2015
Duration: 43 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Collins, Dennis & Wellborn, Cecil Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Clifton Fifer Jr., December 13, 2016

Description: Interview with Clifton Fifer, Jr., a member of the Buffalo Soldiers who attended both segregated and integrated schools in Kerrville, from Kerrville, Texas. Fifer speaks about his time attending segregated schools, attending integrated schools, and growing up in Kerrville's black community.
Date: December 13, 2016
Duration: 43 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Fifer, Clifton, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Clifton Fifer Jr., December 13, 2016

Description: Interview with Clifton Fifer, Jr., a member of the Buffalo Soldiers who attended both segregated and integrated schools in Kerrville, from Kerrville, Texas. Fifer speaks about his time attending segregated schools, attending integrated schools, and growing up in Kerrville's black community.
Date: December 13, 2016
Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Fifer, Clifton, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, December 16, 2010

Description: Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, the descendant of a ranching family in Kimble County, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Lutz discusses her ranching family, meeting her husband, Warren Wiggins, who was later killed in the Philippines during World War II, meeting her second husband who had been in Wiggins's company in the Philippines, and the Dodge dealership her second husband ran.
Date: March 23, 1918
Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Heffington, Susan Wiggins & Lutz, Courtney Sieker Wiggins
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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