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[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 12 - The Doughboys on Tour 1952 - 1959]

Description: This home movie documents the Light Crust Doughboys (LCD) on tour and performing in Texas and the Southern United States in 1952 - 1959. Footage includes performers at the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas on November 27, 1951 (3 min., 06 sec.); a performance in Houston, Texas on June 25, 1952 that includes actors Tim Holt and Preston Foster (6 min, 44 sec.); a visit with actor Noah Beery, Jr. on September 30, 1952 in Little Rock, Arkansas (8 min, 07 sec.); a trip to historic sites in Vick… more
Date: 1952/1959
Duration: 32 minutes 35 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.759574 -96.792968
Partner: UNT Media Library

[City of Beaumont Plaque]

Description: Photograph of a plaque mounted on a rock. The plaque reads: "City of Beaumont. Named in honor of Mary Dewleigh Borlace Warren Beaumont by her husband Henry Millard who laid out the town in 1835 on a site known as Tevis's bluff. Incorporated in 1838".
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Plaque at Jefferson County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of a historic landmark plaque at the Jefferson County Courthouse. It reads: "Jefferson County Courthouse. The first county building constructed at this site was a jailhouse completed in 1838, two years after the organization of Jefferson County. Located on land acquired from Nancy Tevis, a pioneer settler of the area, it also housed county offices and courts. When the commissioners court outgrew the facility, sessions were held in private homes. The first courthouse here was complete… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Plaque by Lake]

Description: Photograph of a Texas Historical Commission plaque about the status of Beaumont as a lumber mill city in the nineteenth century. A lake is visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Tyrrell Public Library Plaque]

Description: Photograph of a Texas Historical Commission plaque about the Tyrrell Public Library. The plaque reads: "Built in 1903 as the First Baptist Church, this limestone structure replaced a red brick church on the same site. Architect of the Romanesque Revival style edifice was A. N. Dawson and contractor was G. D. Patterson. in 1923, when the Baptist congregation moved to larger facilities, Capt. William C. Tyrrell purchased the building and donated it to the city for use as a public library. It now … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
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[Marking Texas History]

Description: Sound recording of a Jefferson County Historical Commission seminar in Beaumont, TX in April 1991, outlining the history of markers in Texas and the historic marker application process.
Date: April 1991
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Hays, Margaret Parx
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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