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Abilene Fire Department Annual Report: 1976

Annual report of the Abilene Fire Department describing the organization and administration, with updates on goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1976.

Date: 1976

Creator: Abilene (Tex.). Fire Department.

Item Type: Report

Partner: Abilene Library Consortium

[Advertisement: Helen Corbitt's No-Nonsense Holiday Cooking School]

Mailer advertising "Helen Corbitt's No-Nonsense Holiday Cooking School" which includes three sessions over two days in November 1976. It includes information about Corbitt and her credentials, a description of the classes and entertainment, and a form to enroll in the class.

Date: Autumn 1976

Creator: The Birmingham Ballet

Item Type: Pamphlet

Location: 33.514889 -86.809093

Partner: University of Dallas

[Aerial View of TWU Campus]

Photograph of an aerial view of the TWU campus showing the gymnasium building, swimming pool, and the ACT building, which was still undergoing construction, with rows of houses and trees in the foreground and background.

Date: 1976-04~

Item Type: Photograph

Location: None

Partner: Denton Public Library

[Cattle in the Street]

Photograph of a herd of cattle on Wall and Colorado streets being driven from South Texas to Lubbock for the opening of The Ranch Headquarters there.

Date: 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 31.997346 -102.077915

Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Civic Center Park]

Photograph of the rocket slide and various other playground equipment (merry-go-round, swing set, slide) at the Civic Center Park in Denton with trees and a blue sky in the background.

Date: April 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Denton Public Library

[Detective Jerry Franklin and Sergeant Bill Davis at the Siege of John Jennings Allen]

Photograph of Detective Jerry Franklin and Sergeant Bill Davis kneeling down behind a patrol car at the siege of John Jennings Allen.

Date: August 29, 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Abilene Library Consortium

[Ensign Fountain in the Civic Center Park]

Photograph of of the rock footbridge and the Ensign fountain at the Civic Center Park with trees in the foreground and background.

Date: April 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Denton Public Library

[Essay by Laura Castro]

Photocopy of an essay on how the Dellana family came to reside in Rollingwood, Texas. Castro talks about Condado Dellana's immigration from Italy to the United States and how he eventually moved to Texas to help build the capitol building in Austin. Years later, Condado discovered a cave in Rollingwood that produced extremely good fertilizer due to the guano from the bats that lived in the cave. He eventually bought the property that the cave was on and started selling the fertilizer to nurseri… more

Date: February 27, 1976

Creator: Castro, Laura

Item Type: Article

Partner: Westbank Community Library District

Footsteps Across The Years

Compilation of historical information about events happening in and around Kerrville, Texas, coinciding with national events or historical periods. It includes a list, at the end, of persons or families that moved to Kerrville before 1925 and still had descendants living in the county at the time of publication.

Date: March 1976

Creator: Furman, Elizabeth

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Fountain at the Denton City Hall]

Photograph of the fountain outside the mayor's office at the Denton City Hall with the Emily Fowler Central Library, Cottonwood Creek, and several trees, some of which are Weeping Willow, can be seen in the background.

Date: May 1976

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 33.217811 -97.130586

Partner: Denton Public Library

[Girls Playing at a City of Denton Park]

Photograph of two unidentified girls playing on tire swings on a playground at a park in Denton; one girl is sitting on the monkey bars above the swings and the other is balancing on top of two tire swings.

Date: 1976/1982

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Denton Public Library

Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1976

Student newspaper of Weatherford High School in Weatherford, Texas that includes school news and information along with advertising.

Date: February 13, 1976

Item Type: Newspaper