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Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press

Texas Folk Medicine: 1,333 Cures, Remedies, Preventives, & Health Practices

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a compilation of 1,333 folk cures, remedies and prevention techniques. It includes information about various diagnoses, such as acne, poison ivy, whooping cough, nosebleeds, and others.
Date: 1970
Creator: Anderson, John Q.
Partner: UNT Press

Soil Survey of Harris 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 Harris County, Texas.
Date: 1976
Creator: Wheeler, Frankie F.; Crout, Jack D.; Ratliff, Larry F.; Hatherly, Don T.; Deshotels, Jesse D.; Wagner, John D. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Theatre Under the Stars Scrapbook: December 1975-April 1981]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars program from December 1975 through April 1981, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items.
Date: 1975-12/1981-04
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1975]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild during the year 1975, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings.
Date: 1975
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1974]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild during the year 1974, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1974
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Guild Scrapbook: 1976-1977]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars program, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippints, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1976/1977
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Theatre Under the Stars Scrapbook: 1978/1980]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the Theatre Under the Stars Guild, including photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, and other items. The Theatre Under the Stars Guild is an organization that assists the main organization by coordinating events, parties, and fundraising.
Date: 1978/1980
Creator: Theatre Under the Stars Guild
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Lee College: by the people, for the people.

Description: A history of the Lee College in Baytown starting with its establishment in 1929 through 1970. Index starts on page 327.
Date: 1972
Creator: Rundell, Walter
Partner: Sterling Municipal Library

The Baldwin ConSurvey and Baytown Sun Baytown (including Highlands) Texas ConSurvey City Directory Supplement Edition, 1970

Description: General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses as well as business advertisements. According to the title page the directory contains “a numerical telephone directory and a complete buyers’ guide and classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands.”
Date: 1970
Creator: Robert Morton Baldwin
Partner: Sterling Municipal Library

Oral History Interview with Jim Earthman, December 8th, 1972

Description: Interview with Representative Jim Earthman, a Texas State legislator from Houston, Texas. Earthman discusses his experiences in the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, specifically his feelings on state funding of primaries, the "Dirty Thirty," the selection of candidates for House Speaker, opposition to the election of Rayford Price, the legislature's budgeting hearings, his opinion of Bill Heatly, his opinion of Preston Smith, insurance rate making, insurance c… more
Date: December 8, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Earthman, Jim
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with H. F. Elliot, January 4, 1972

Description: Interview with H. F. Elliot, a doctor in Aransas County from Ames, Iowa. Elliot discusses his education, the most common illnesses he treats, common diseases in the county, the patients he sees, the capabilities of different hospitals he refers them to, quarantine, hurricanes, the school system, local sports, and his involvement in the Boy Scouts.
Date: January 4, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Elliot, H. F.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Craig A. Washington, July 18, 1976

Description: Interview with Representative Craig A. Washington, a Democratic Texas state legislator from Houston, Texas. Washington discusses his time in the 64th Legislature, including: his upbringing and education; his decision to enter politics; his thoughts on his political orientation; fighting discriminatory insurance policies; his opinion of House Speaker Price Daniel; the Black Caucus; the Dirty Thirty; his thoughts on Representative Bill Clayton; drug law; education bills; and his assessment of Gov… more
Date: July 18, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Washington, Craig A.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

The Folklore of Texan Cultures

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of various ethnic and religious groups residing in Texas, including songs, myths, legends, and other essays. The index begins on page 363.
Date: 1974
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

In Retrospect: Recollections of Years of Teaching that are History

Description: Compilation of personal stories highlighting the experiences of retired Baytown teachers and cafeteria workers. Includes an alphabetical membership roster for the Baytown Area Retired Teachers Association (1976) at the end of the text.
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Baytown Area Retired Teachers Association
Partner: Sterling Municipal Library

Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 1978

Description: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas held December 8 & 9, including a list of attendees, text of addresses, changes to membership, and biographical information about members who have passed. The theme of the conference was "Science Technology and National Defense."
Date: 1979
Creator: Philosophical Society of Texas
Partner: Philosophical Society of Texas

Johnson’s January, 1979 City Directory for Baytown, Texas Including Crosby, Highlands

Description: General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. According to the title page the directory contains “an alphabetical list identifying area businesses and families to residents; a complete list of area businesses arranged according to offered products and services; residential and business addresses arranged according to street and number; a list of telephone numbers in numerical order; and… more
Date: 1979
Creator: Johnson Publishing Co. Inc.
Partner: Sterling Municipal Library
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