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A Literary Map of Texas

Description: Map of a selection of Texas authors and book titles, scattered across a map of the state. Illustrations of traditional Texana motifs, such as a roadrunner, a yucca, and a longhorn, have also been adapted from This Bitterly Beautiful Land (Lowman) and included.
Date: 1976
Creator: Hudgins, Lois A.; Brown, Kenneth; Whitehead, Barbara & Holman, William R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Booklist to Accompany A Literary Map of Texas

Description: List of Texas authors and book titles to accompany a map of Texas, also published by the Dallas Public Library, with the author and titles from this list imposed on the state. The authors are listed alphabetically by last name and form three columns.
Date: March 2, 1976
Creator: Hudgins, Lois A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of Story Telling]

Description: Photograph of a young man reading a picture book to a group of children huddled on the grass at the 2012 Western Heritage Day. Potato sacks on a wire fence can be seen behind the man.
Date: 2012
Creator: Maynard, Shannon Collins
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from J. D. Sandefer Jr. to H. A. Pender, E. F. Pittard, Dan Moody, Claude McAden, and Barney Carter - February 9, 1950]

Description: Letter from J. D. Sandefer Jr. to Mrs. Pender, Mrs. Pittard, Mrs. Moody, Mrs. McAden, and Mr. Carter concerning a photo he found while at his mother’s house in Abilene. He includes a limerick that he describes as “unfair to use.”
Date: February 9, 1950
Creator: Sandefer, J. D., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of Story Telling]

Description: Photographic slide of a woman reading aloud from an alphabet book to a group of children at the 2004 Western Heritage Day. She speaks into a microphone and holds the book out so the children can see the pictures. Potato sacks can be seen handing from a fence in the background.
Date: 2004
Creator: Fink, Larry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas

Description: A printed paper with the poem "Texas," by Edwin Brush. This item was originally part of a scrapbook assembled by Thomas Norwood Carswell, largely containing items related to his time at Simmons College (Abilene, Texas).
Date: [1909, 1915]
Creator: Brush, Edwin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

A Castle of Memories

Description: A poem titled "A Castle of Memories," written by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. Religious poem/song recounting the life, once fair, of a homeless man, found with a worn Bible in his hands gone home to "A Mansion not made with hands", a smile on his face that "seemed to whisper of God's Grace". He implores the Youth to let the Bible guide their lives. The reverse side includes a printed advertisement "Complements…Of American Beauty Flour and Your friend, Virgil O. Stamps."
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

My Old Uncle

Description: A political poem/song titled "My Old Uncle," by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. Political poem/song displaying his gratefull allegiance to the U. S. A. touting liberty, that "Uncle" is a friend to both the wealthy and the poor and "never tries to dictate to us how we shall worship God". The lyrics proclaim "we owe a debt of gratitude" that can never be repaid, yet they are amid "ungrateful" citizens criticizing the Government such as those "Who would swap our form of Government, For One the… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Wallace C. Thompson to Senator W. J. Bryan, November 8, 1945]

Description: Letter from Wallace C. Thompson to Senator W. J. Bryan showing appreciation for the poems he sent as he did enjoy reading them. He also informs Mr. Bryan about the details of his conversation with Mr. Wallace who is interested in attending the Cowboys Christmas Ball with them.
Date: November 8, 1945
Creator: Thompson, Wallace C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Poem: Rest]

Description: Poem written about rest after a hard day and published in The Southern Pharmaceutical Journal and Drug Price Review, with an advertisement for Vitalis on the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cousins, Walt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Poem: Abilene Texas...]

Description: Poem written about the city of Abilene, Texas published in The Southern Pharmaceutical Journal and Drug Price Review, with a portion of an article about frontier medicine printed on the other side.
Date: October 1936
Creator: Cousins, Walt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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