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[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1985-1987]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild from 1985 through 1987, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1985/1987
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1981-1982]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild from 1981 through 1982, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1981/1982
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1976-1977]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars program, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippints, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1976/1977
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1982-1984]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild from 1982 through 1984, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1982/1984
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1987-1989]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild from 1987 through 1989, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1987/1989
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Scrapbook: 1978/1980]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1978/1980
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Diary of Minnie Howard Walker: 1881]

Description: Diary of Minnie Howard Walker from the year 1881.
Date: 1881-01-01/1881-12-11
Creator: Walker, Minnie Maud Howard
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

The City of Houston from Wilderness to Wonder

Description: This book gives an overview of the history of the City of Houston, Texas, covering "The Beginning of Houston and Houston Up to the Civil War."
Date: 1936
Creator: Allen, O.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Story of Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel

Description: This booklet gives an overview of the history of Buffalo Bayou and of the Houston Ship Channel from 1820-1926. The text gives background on how the area became developed and eventually became an "Industrial Waterway of National importance" (p. [3]). The second half of the text focuses on Commodore Charles Morgan and the shipping aspect of the Channel. Costs of building, lists of important council members, and text of letters are included to illustrate the history.
Date: 1926
Creator: Farrar, R. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries

From Hell to Breakfast

Description: Volume of popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including religious anecdotes, stories about Native American dances, stories about petroleum and oil fields, folk songs, legends, customs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 205.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore

Description: Volume of essays about African-American folklore, including reminiscences of African-American folk culture in Texas, studies of specific genres of folklore, information about Texas-African food-ways, studies of specific performers, information about songs and other folklore. The index begins on page 353.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

Folk Art in Texas

Description: This book describes popular folk art of Texas, including basket weaving, hat-making, yard art, sculptures, murals, cemetery art, quilt-making, tattoo art, and other miscellaneous folk art. The index begins on page 198.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press
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