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[News Clip: Secretary Brannan breakfast guest]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Agricultural Secretary Charles Brannan visiting Fort Worth, en route to Gatesville.
Date: October 12, 1951
Duration: 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Progress Report 1389]

Description: Progress Report 1389. It was published by the Texas A&M College System's Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, for which R. D. Louis is Director; John H. Southern and Joe R. Motheral are authors of the report. Subjects discussed include farm and land prices from the previous year; land sales in sample counties; information about "owner-operators", cash sales, and mortgage credit; the "veterans land program"; and factors of the previous year's land market.
Date: August 2, 1951
Creator: Texas A & M University System. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Photograph of the free-standing marker and engraved plaque commemorating the historic Nancy Jones Oak tree]

Description: Photograph of the free-standing marker and engraved plaque commemorating the historic Nancy Jones Oak tree. The marker, to the left of the base of the oak tree reads: "The Nancy Stiles Jones Oak Tree Marked By Fort Bend Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1824-1951." The tree was planted in 1824 by Nancy Jones and is located in the George Ranch house yard. A stone walk way leads from the tree and down to the bottom center of the photo. A black wire loops from the left side of the base … more
Date: 1951
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

[Doc Rhuman doing a demonstration with corn]

Description: Photograph of Doc Rhuman on set with and unidentified man and woman. Rhuman and the man are both holding corn plants and the woman is helping Rhuman shuck one of the ears of corn that is on the plant. The group is looking down at the ear of corn and the man is pointing at it. The set they are standing on has a backdrop that is painted to look like a cloudy sky and there is a painted, two dimensional tree on the left and a three dimensional tree prop on the right. There is also a swing set on th… more
Date: July 7, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Harris Leon Kempner, 1951]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Harris Leon Kempner discussing the price of cotton and personal matters such as Shrub falling out of a tree. He explains that he cannot further reduce the price of cotton because the yield had been cut due to a recent drought and hurricane.
Date: 1951
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Texas Almanac, 1952-1953

Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, weather, "resources, industries, commerce, history, government, population and all other subjects relating to the political, civic and economic development" of the time. A general index is on page 639.
Date: 1951
Partner: Texas State Historical Association
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