11 Matching Results

Search Results

[Multicultural Parade Float]

Description: Photograph of a float featuring the six flags that have flown over Texas, complete with costumed individuals representing each country's culture. A model-sized Alamo serves as the float's major decoration. The float is traveling in the parade on Kansas Street in League City; the parade is part of the 32nd Annual Village Fest.
Date: May 10, 1986
Creator: Kiecke, Albert
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Certificate Awarded to Hester Beck Willis]

Description: Certificate awarded to Hester Beck Willis for 25 years of membership in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. It reads: "Twenty-Five Years of Continuous Membership. This Certifies that Hester Beck Willis #012499 is a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, having been admitted to membership on January 11, 1984. In Witness Whereof the President General and Senior Members Committee Chair subscribe their names and have caused the seal of the Association to be hereunto affixed at Killee… more
Date: May 16, 2009
Creator: Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from J. L. Kauffman to Daniel and Jeane Kempner, May 28, 1952]

Description: Letter from J. L. Kauffman to Daniel and Jeane Kempner asking them to provide some assistance to a recent graduate of Jefferson Medical College who is moving his family down to Galveston. He also provides some updates on his family, how he got his current job and hopes to see the Kempers if they ever come to town. A handwritten postscript reads: "P.S. One of Jefferson's graduates was Dr. Anson Jones, the 'Architect of annexation' and the last president of the Republic of Texas (class of 1827)"
Date: May 28, 1952
Creator: Kauffman, J. L.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
Back to Top of Screen