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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6663

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Duties of county auditor in respect to certain claims against the county.
Date: July 25, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6683

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Waller County. Texas, may legally pay certain bills presented for publication and posting of notices in a school consolidation election.
Date: July 14, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6519

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the given facts is the Commissioners' Court of Waller County within its authority in employing an independent auditor to audit the books of the County Auditor? And other questions.
Date: July 9, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with Amy Boykin, July 9, 2015

Description: Interview with Amy Boykin, retired educator from Prairie View, Texas. She discusses her childhood in Prairie View, her education, her employment at Bishop College and McKinney schools, experiences with racial discrimination in Texas, and her activism.
Date: July 9, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Boykin, Amy & Bynum, Katherine
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Halcyon Watkins, July 23, 2015

Description: Interview with Halcyon Watkins, a veterinarian from Prairie View, Texas. In her interview, Watkins discusses her family background, and her education at St. Frances de Sales School in Virginia, a Catholic boarding school for African American girls. She also discusses her education at Texas Southern University and Tuskegee University. While a student at TSU, Watkins participated in lunch counter and bus station sit-ins in Houston.
Date: July 23, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Watkins, Halcyon & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Frank Jackson, July 7, 2015

Description: Interview with Frank Jackson, mayor of Prairie View, Texas. In the interview, Jackson discusses his early life and education in Luling, Texas, living under Jim Crow, his service in the U.S. Navy, the incorporation of Prairie View, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Date: July 16, 2015
Duration: 59 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Jackson, Frank & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Al and Larneatha Bowdre, July 14, 2015

Description: Interview with Al and Larneatha Bowdre, retired couple from Prairie View, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Bowdre discuss their childhood experiences, education, and raising their family in Texas. Mr. Bowdre also discusses his work as a volunteer firefighter.
Date: July 14, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Bowdre, Al; Bowdre, Larneatha; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Wayne Sadberry, July 8, 2015

Description: Interview with Wayne Sadberry, a curator at the Brazos Valley African-American Museum from Prairie View, Texas. Sadberry discusses his early life, family background, and living under Jim Crow segregation. Sadberry also discusses his education at St. Emma Military Academy in Powhatan, Virginia and service in the Air Force. He also discusses working as a research assistant on a grant project to Antarctica while a graduate student at Texas A&M.
Date: July 8, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Sadberry, Wayne & Moye, Todd
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Jimmie Poindexter, July 9, 2015

Description: Interview with Jimmie Poindexter from Prairie View, Texas. In her interview, Poindexter discusses her family history, education, attending Howard University, community organizations and civil rights activism.
Date: July 9, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Poindexter, Jimmie & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016

Description: Perri "P.K." McCary was born in 1953 in Texarkana. She grew-up in a ethnically diverse community in Alamo Garden, New Mexico and later lived near Prairie View A&M University when her father obtained a teaching position in the Industrial Education Department. McCary's parents gave her the tools to resist discrimination by exhibiting a strong sense of self and for confronting racist acts in front of her. She would opt to attend Jack Yates High School when her family moved to Houston because of th… more
Date: July 28, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & McCary, Perri
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Waller Counties, Texas, 1975-79

Description: Report compiling United States Geological Survey data on wells, drillers logs, water-level measurements, and chemical analyses of water sources in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Collins Counties to assess the state of groundwater resources in the Greater Houston-Galveston area.
Date: July 1983
Creator: Ratzlaff, Karl W.; Ranzau, C. E. & Lind, W. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with James E. Johnson, July 21, 2015

Description: Interview with James E. Johnson, a retired professor of education from Prairie View, Texas. Johnson earned a doctorate from Texas A&M in 1967 and taught at Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern University. In his interview, he discusses his early life, military service, attending Texas A&M, racial integration, and his career as an educator.
Date: July 21, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Johnson, James E. & Bynum, Katherine
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Train-Indicator

Description: Patent for a train indicator that displays numbers or letters that can be easily changed.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: Elliott, Claud B. & Clappart, Emile E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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