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[Train Wreck in Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a train wreck in Marshall, Texas. There are people looking at the wreck, and cars and firetrucks are visible on the right side of the image. Houses are visible in the background. Text below the image says "Wreck at Marshall, Texas 1954" and "Joe Perkins Collection."
Date: 1954
Creator: Perkins, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

St. Joseph's Church, Marshall, Texas

Description: Black and white photo-postcard of St. Joseph's Church in Marshall, Texas, taken sometime in the 1940s or early 1950s. The Mission style church building has a tower on either side of the entrance facade, with the one on the left being taller with a bell tower. The entrance doors are obscured by branches, but a statue of St. Joseph stands in a niche above the central entrance door. A residential-scale side-gable building with dormers to the right of the church was probably the rectory. There is… more
Date: January 27, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Laura Virginia Groner Hall, East Texas Baptist College, Marshall, Texas

Description: Black and white photo-postcard of the Laura Virginia Groner Hall, East Texas Baptist College, in Marshall, Texas, taken sometime in the 1940s or early 1950s. The two-story brick dormitory has a wide full-height entrance porch with six square columns and with three dormers and a central cupola in the roof. All of the windows have shutters. Five metal chairs are visible on the porch. It is on a sloping grassy site with wide steps leading up the slope. At the bottom of the image in white letters … more
Date: February 2, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-125

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Payment of travel expenses for out-of-state investigation of alleged perjury committed in Harrison County.
Date: April 23, 1954
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from the Texas State Historical Survey Committee to I. H. Kempner]

Description: Letter from the Texas State Historical Survey Committee to I. H. Kempner explaining that they have been authorized by the State Legislature to create a "non-profit, state-wide organization" to encourage the preservation of "historical houses, sites, and landmarks" and "important papers, documents, and relics" about Texas. They state that they need funds in order to "perform the survey leading up to the recommendations" that they need to submit to the Legislature the following January, as they w… more
Date: 1954
Creator: Texas State Historical Survey Committee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-126

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of a county to lease space and facilities from a private hospital for the purpose of hospitalizing county paupers.
Date: June 4, 1954
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Clipping: New 173-Acre Housing Area Dedicated Sunday]

Description: Clipping of an article from the Dallas Star Post regarding the new 173-acre housing area in Hamilton Park. The mayor of Dallas, prominent Black leaders, and members of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association were at Hamilton Park to conduct the formal opening ceremony for the new houses that were built of the housing shortage. The plan is progressing successfully, as fifty of the six hundred homes have been built with seventy percent already being sold.
Date: May 8, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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