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Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

[Dallas Park Board Minutes, Book 12]

Description: Minutes for the Dallas Park Board containing a record of the group's discussions, decisions, and other business.
Date: 1953/1958
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Park Department.
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1961-1972]

Description: Minutes from weekly meetings of the Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth, Texas, containing club business, motions, and events.
Date: 1952-10/1972-10
Creator: Woman's Wednesday Club
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1952-1961]

Description: Minutes from weekly meetings of the Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth, Texas, containing club business, motions, and events.
Date: 1952-10/1961-04
Creator: Woman's Wednesday Club
Partner: Tarrant County Archives

Specialized Training Manual

Description: This book is the student text for a training course on management for administrative officers in the Air Force Reserve. Each of the book's six lessons contains a set of readings and ends with a list of review questions.
Date: July 1, 1955
Creator: United States. Air Force. Continental Air Command.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Signposts of Twentieth Century Art

Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "Signposts of Twentieth Century Art," October 28–December 7, 1959, held at the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts. Includes: artists and artworks in the exhibition, descriptions, images.
Date: 1959
Creator: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Religious Art of the Western World

Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "Religious Art of the Western World," March 23–May 25, 1958, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1958
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

South American Art Today

Description: Catalog from the exhibition, "South American Art Today," October 10–November 29, 1959, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: artists and artworks in the exhibition, selected images.
Date: 1959
Creator: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Partner: Dallas Museum of Art

Comanche Texts

Description: This book contains Comanche folktales, along with the English translations. They are broken into several sections which are listed (along with brief summaries of the stories) in the table of contents: coyote stories; fairy tales and fables; manners and morals; adventure; and obtaining and preparing food. Both the English and Comanche texts have numbered footnotes to line up the translation, explained in the Editor's Note (p. iii); there is also an Explanatory Note describing the Comanche tran… more
Date: 1958
Creator: Canonge, Elliott D.
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Mullin-Kille and Banner Brownwood, Texas Con Survey City Directory, 1952

Description: Directory for Brownwood, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory supplement contains "an alphabetical directory and cosmopolitan telephone directory of all residents over eighteen with detailed information concerning each; a civic section of local interest and a numerical telephone directory. A complete buyers' guide and classified business directory with special listings for natio… more
Date: 1952
Creator: Mullin-Kille Company
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

Worley's Abilene (Taylor County, Texas) City Directory, 1951

Description: Directory for Abilene, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals, as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of householders, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide and much information of a miscellaneous character; also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business dir… more
Date: 1951
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Co.
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Worley's Abilene (Taylor County, Texas) City Directory, 1953

Description: Directory for Abilene, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals, as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of householders, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide and much information of a miscellaneous character; also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business dir… more
Date: 1953
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Co.
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Theses on Texas History: A Check List of Theses and Dissertations in Texas History Produced in the Departments of History of Eighteen Texas Graduate Schools and Thirty-Three Graduate Schools Outside of Texas, 1907-1952

Description: Book containing theses collected from the history departments of fifty-one graduate schools. The theses are listed in alphabetical order by author and relate to Texas. Includes the degree conferred upon each author, the title of the theses, and lists of illustrations, maps, tables, and contents.
Date: 1955
Creator: Elliott, Claude, 1896-1958
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Booming Mexia in the Roaring 20's

Description: Compilation of articles published during 1955 in The Waco-Times Herald, written by Nanine Simmons about the history of Mexia, Texas and focusing on the oil boom in the 1920s. The author includes a preface regarding the sources of her information and editorial notes for some of the articles to provide more context.
Date: March 1955
Creator: Simmons, Nanine
Partner: UNT Libraries

Centurama

Description: The official program for Denton's centennial celebration on April 21-27, 1957 contains information about the events week, a brief history of Denton's foundation and progress, a map of Denton in 1957, and several advertisements for local organizations. Several photographs of early Denton County scenes, various historical markers, early buildings of North Texas State College and Texas State College for Women, and other mentionable landmarks are included.
Date: 1957-04~
Creator: Denton Centennial Commision
Partner: Denton Public Library

PALOCADE Palo Pinto County

Description: Palo Pinto County celebrated 100 years of existence in 1957. Shown here is a picture of the cover of the official program of the pageant that commemorated this milestone in the county's history. Palo Pinto County began with its formation by act of the Texas legislature in 1856, and its subsequent organization in 1857. As part of the year-long centennial observance, a pageant noting significant events in the county's past was presented at the local football stadium. The pro… more
Date: 1957
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Facsimile of Junebug Clark The Early Years scrapbook]

Description: From Junebug Clark's introduction: "This scrapbook of the early work of Junebug Clark, was put together by Bernice Clark, my mother, and preserved by my wife, Kay Clark. The original is getting a little bit fragile and delicate so in order for you to take a gander at it, this document was created. I hope that you will have the time to set a spell and go through the pictures and stories within. It is a little bit embarrassing and unbeliveable for me to look at but after undertaking this project … more
Date: 1950/1962
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Scrapbook: Abilene League of Women Voters, Volume 4]

Description: Scrapbook of materials documenting the activities of the Abilene League of Women Voters in Abilene, Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs.
Date: 1956/1963
Creator: Abilene Fine Arts Museum (Tex.)
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Scrapbook: Abilene League of Women Voters, Volume 1]

Description: Scrapbook of materials documenting the activities of the Abilene League of Women Voters in Abilene, Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. It includes a handwritten history, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Date: 1952/1954
Creator: Abilene Fine Arts Museum (Tex.)
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 6]

Description: Scrapbook of materials documenting the activities and history of the Abilene Fine Arts Museum in Abilene, Texas during the 1950s. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, invitations, programs, booklets, letters, and exhibition information.
Date: 1956-08/1959-07
Creator: Abilene Fine Arts Museum (Tex.)
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Art Forum Record Book, 1950]

Description: Record book highlighting the activities of American Art Week in communities throughout Texas, with an emphasis on Abilene, in 1950. Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia documenting statewide activities promoted by different clubs.
Date: 1950
Creator: Carpenter, Allie Mae
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Art Forum Pressbook, 1956-1957]

Description: Pressbook documenting art events in Abilene, Texas, from 1956 to 1957 with emphasis on those of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Sixth District. This first section of the book is news of the Art Forum. Next are exhibit catalogues of the Abilene Museum of Fine Arts and also those of exhibits at an Art Gallery on Cedar Street. Art events and activities at the newly established Dyess Air Force Base, located southwest of Abilene, are included.
Date: 1956/1957
Creator: Carpenter, Allie Mae
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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