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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: 2001
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

[Sallie Fordtran Photo Album]

Description: Photo album addressed to Sallie Fordtran, filled with portraits of individuals, with a list of their names on the second page of the album. Born in 1856, Sallie C. Fordtran was the daughter of Charles William Fordtran and Almeida Angeline Brookfield Fordtran of Washington County, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Madstones and Twisters

Description: Collection information about weather, plant and animal lore in Texas and Mexico. It also discusses folk remedies, folktales about tornadoes, information about prairie dogs, and ghost stories.
Date: 1958
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
Partner: UNT Press

Catalog of Chappell Hill Independent School District, 1912-1913

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, school calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Independent School District in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1912
Creator: Chappell Hill Independent School District
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1907

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1907
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1908

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1907
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1911

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1911
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Public School, 1909-1910

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, school calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Public School in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1909
Creator: Chappell Hill Public School
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1899

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1898
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1910

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1910
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1905

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1904
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1886

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1886
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1888

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1888
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1901

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1901
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1890

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1890
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1888-1889

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1889
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Catalog of Chappell Hill Female College, 1906

Description: Catalog describing the governance, history, admission requirements, course offerings, university calendar, and campus life of Chappell Hill Female College in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Date: 1905
Creator: Chappell Hill Female College
Partner: Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum

Soil Survey of Washington County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Washington County, Texas.
Date: 1981
Creator: Chervenka, W. Glen; Castille, Joseph J.; Jurena, Maurice R. & Stewart, Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Journal of Gertrude Osterhout at Baylor Female College, 1880-1883]

Description: Journal of Gertrude Osterhout, kept while she was at Baylor Female College. The journal starts with entries on her life in the boarding house at the college, spanning from the end of 1881 to April of 1881. Between these entries and the final page, Gertrude kept quotations from different materials, including many from "Lucile" by Owen Meredith. The final entry is at the start of the new year in 1883. The journal is bound and has an illustration of a pink flower on the front cover.
Date: October 20, 1880
Creator: Osterhout, Gertrude
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Soil survey of Washington County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Washington County, Texas.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Meyer, A. H. (Alfred Henry); Eckmann, E. C.; Cantrell, L. & Davis, L. V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Bounty of Texas

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a miscellany of Texas, Mexican and Spanish folklore, including information about hunting, canning, cooking, and other folklore. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

Madstones and Twisters

Description: Collection of information about weather, plant and animal lore in Texas and Mexico. It also discusses folk remedies, folktales about tornadoes, information about prairie dogs, and ghost stories.
Date: 2017
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
Partner: UNT Press
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