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The Early Settlers Life in Texas

Description: This book describes the early history of Hill County, located in Texas, including the author's trip to Texas, information about the first settlers, prominent men, Native American massacres, government, and the general organization of the county.
Date: 1963
Creator: Kirkpatrick, A. Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Soil Survey of Wise County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Wise County, Texas.
Date: 1989
Creator: Ressel, Dennis D.; Dittmar, Glen W.; Pauls, Edward W.; Risinger, William M. & Clower, Dennis F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore

Description: Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore

Description: Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
Date: 1982
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press

Mayor's Criminal Docket

Description: City of Alvord Mayor's Criminal Docket
Date: January 20, 1893
Creator: City of Alvord
Partner: Alvord Public Library

J.R. Rhyne Hardware Receipts

Description: J.R. Rhyne Hardware store receipts
Date: unknown
Creator: J.R. Rhyne Hardware Co.
Partner: Alvord Public Library

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Description: Interview with Bertha (Mrs. Herman) Rosenzweig concerning her experiences as co-founder (with her husband, Herman, deceased) of Tex Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. Rosenzweig discusses her family background, her education in Brooklyn, N.Y., and her teaching career. She also speaks of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, her husband's technical training and his work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing the Nazis and migrati… more
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd Harold & Rosenzweig, Bertha
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Description: Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in… more
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Rosenzweig, Bertha
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert Gregg, March 24, 1971

Description: Interview with Robert Gregg, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Decatur, Texas, who was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion"). Gregg discusses mobilization and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and his capture, internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and Changi Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand "Death" Railway, and liberation.
Date: March 24, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Gregg, Robert
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Weldon O. Western, February 18, 1987

Description: Interview with Weldon O. Western, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Chico, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
Date: February 18, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Western, Weldon O.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Inventory of county records, Wise County Courthouse, Decatur, Texas

Description: Inventory of records of Wise County housed in the Wise County Courthouse in Decatur, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the County Clerk, County Attorney, District Clerk, District Attorney, Justice of the Peace, Tax Assessor-Collector, Sheriff, Treasurer, Auditor, and School Superintendent. Also provides an index.
Date: 1975
Creator: Riney, James E. & Pearson, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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