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[Art Forum Pressbook, 1951-1952]

Description: Pressbook documenting art events in Abilene, Texas, from 1951 to 1952 with emphasis on those of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Sixth District. The study theme for the year was "Art Passport for Better Citizenship."
Date: 1951/1952
Creator: Carpenter, Allie Mae
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Art Forum Record Book, 1951]

Description: Record book highlighting the activities of the 1951 American Art Week in communities throughout Texas, with an emphasis on Abilene. In the beginning of the scrapbook, there is information about the history of American Art Week, which began in 1937.
Date: 1951
Creator: Carpenter, Allie Mae
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to John Ben Shepperd - 1951]

Description: A letter addressed to John Ben Shepperd, Secretary of State, Austin, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, Chairman, Taylor County Parole Board. Carswell advises Shepperd of an enclosed application for clemency regarding the case of which he spoke to Shepperd and McGill about when in his office in July. Carswell requests that Shepperd and Governor Shivers join him in his request to Governor Warren for clemency for Subject but only after reading the history and having full knowledge of the case.
Date: 1951
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of HSU Golf Team]

Description: Photograph of the Hardin-Simmons University golf teams posed in a semi-circle holding gold clubs. A white building can be seen in the background. This photograph was published in the Brand, the weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University, on May 26, 1951. From left to right: Billy Phillips, Jack Tidwell, George Smith, Frank Freer, and Carl Chambers.
Date: 1951
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Proposed assembly of the people of Abilene and Taylor County]

Description: A document outlining a proposed assembly of the people of Abilene and Taylor County at the First Baptist Church, on September 9, 1951. The purpose of the meeting "shall be to create among ourselves such a climate for law and order that the hands of officers sworn to enforce the law shall be strengthened by our own will".
Date: 1951
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

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Description: Map of Texas, showing cities and towns, county seats, state parks and forests, pioneer roads and trails, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Note in the lower-left corner by Bascom Giles, Commissioner of the General Land Office in the 1950s. Handwritten note in pencil: "Property of N. H. Kincaid." Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640] (24 miles to the inch).
Date: 1951
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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