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Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion

Description: This book "is a compendium of America's Indian Wars and the mountain men, soldiers, cowboys and pioneers who took part in them" (dust-jacket). It includes information about all the major American Indian battles, the lives of notable men who fought in the battles, and the combat techniques employed. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1991
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Panola College

[Fiddler Webster CraftingTreenware]

Description: Black and white photograph of a young man named Fiddler Webster who is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is working on a piece of treenware, a term used by pioneers to describe a small, handcrafted wooden item. He is using a mallet and a chisel on the item. Several tools are on the small table where he is working.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Nancy Lou Webster, Treenware Maker]

Description: Black and white photograph of Nancy Lou Webster using various tools to make treenware, a term used by pioneers to describe small, handcrafted wooden items. She is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Louise Hunter Presenting a Piece of Treenware]

Description: Black and white photograph of Louise Hunter, mother of Nancy Lou Webster, presenting a piece of treenware, a term used by pioneers to describe a small, handcrafted wooden item. She is a participant of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a pioneer-style dress.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Holding Treenware]

Description: Color photograph of a woman identified as Louise Hunter, holding a piece of treenware, the old pioneer name for household implements made from wood. She is a participant of the 7th Annual Texas Folklife Festival. She has short gray hair and is wearing an old lace pioneer-style dress. Behind her is a tent-covered rea bustling with festival-goers.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Entrance at Gillespie County's Pioneer Museum]

Description: Black and white photograph of a building with a stone facade. A sign in front says Gillespie County Historical Society: Pioneer Museum. The sign's posts flank a stone wall that extends from the foreground to the background. Behind the sign is a white building with a few stone-covered buildings in the rear.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[Schandua House at Gillespie County's Pioneer Museum]

Description: Black and white photograph of a small, one-story building with a stone facade. It is part of the Gillespie County Historical Society's Pioneer Museum. This particular building is known as the Schandua House. Four posts hold up the porch awning in front. Two wooden-covered windows and a wooden door that is ajar are visible behind the posts. Various tree limbs surround the house. A few parked are discernible to the left of the house.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[Weber Sunday House at Gillespie County's Pioneer Museum]

Description: Black and white photograph of a small house known as the Weber Sunday House, which is a part of the Gillespie County Historical Society's Pioneer Museum. It has wooden paneling and is very spare in its design. The front of the house includes a porch covered by an awning that is supported by four posts. There are two windows on either side of the front door. A simple mailbox is in front amidst a few shrubs. The wooden siding of a partially visible building is directly to the right of the Weber S… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[Fassel/Roeder House at Gillespie County's Pioneer Museum]

Description: Black and white photograph of a one-story house known as the Fassel/Roeder House. It is a site at the Gillespie County Historical Society's Pioneer Museum. It has four elegant posts that support the covered porch in front. A bench sits on the porch underneath one of the two windows in front. A screen door is in between the two windows. A grassy lawn surrounds the house. Behind the house, a few trees and a telephone pole and wire are partially visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[Methodist Church at Gillespie County's Pioneer Museum]

Description: Black and white photograph of a Methodist church building at the Gillespie County Historical Society's Pioneer Museum. It is a statuesque, white building with stone steps, at the top of which are four columns that support the covered area in front. Two sets of double doors are visible behind the columns. Pointed arch windows are partially visible on either two of the facades that are shown in the picture. A sign with indiscernible words is to the right of the steps. Some manicured bushes line t… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[Weber Sunday House at Gillespie County's Pioneer Museum]

Description: Black and white photograph of the Weber Sunday House at the Gillespie County Historical Society's Pioneer Museum. The house is a small building with two windows in front and a door in between those two windows. The covered porch has an awning that has a roof made of corrugated material. Four posts support the awning. A mailbox is in the front left of the building.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[History of Danish Pioneers as Told by Andrew Enemark Berndt]

Description: Brief nine-page typed account of the history of Danish settlers in Texas written by Andrew Enermark Berndt over a period, it would seem, of several years. He begins by explaining the lineage of his parents, Laura and Helvig Berndt, and progresses to his family's immigration from Denmark to the United States sometime between the 1840's and the beginning of World War I. A short anecdote is given about his father's butchering of a wild hog. His father, Helvig, bought 3,000 acres of land that no… more
Date: 1983/1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Written Account of the Origins of the Danevang Farmers Cooperative Society]

Description: Four page account of the beginning of the Danevange Farmers Cooperative Society written by W. E. Paulson, a marketing specialist in the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Texas A. & M. University. Early hardships in Danevange frame the communal spirit of the early Texas Danes, who begin cooperative enterprises after the devastating "Galveston storm" in 1900. Mr. Paulson ends with some of the financial benefits of the Coop society on Danevange.
Date: September 16, 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Helvig Jensen Berndt Home]

Description: Copy print of a photograph of the home of Helvig Jensen Berndt in El Campo, Texas. Location was taken from another photograph in the collection. According to information on the back, it is now the home of Elvin Berndt. There are six buildings, including a house and barns, and they are surrounded by farmland. The house is a two-story white building. There is one car, three tractors, and several trailers in the photograph.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Homes of Andrew Enemark Berndt and Helvig Jensen Berndt]

Description: Copy print of two photographs of the homes of Andrew Enemark Berndt and Helvig Jensen Berndt in El Campo, Texas. Andrew's home is in the forefront. It is a one-story white home, and there is barn to the right. Helvig's home is in the background and includes a house and five other buildings. The caption at the bottom says El Campo, Tex. '55.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Homes of Elvin Berndt and Eleanora Berndt Oldag]

Description: Copy print of an aerial photograph of the homes of Elvin Berndt and Eleanora Berndt Oldag in El Campo, Texas, taken in the mid-1980s. Elvin Berndt's home is in the forefront, along with three other buildings, tractors, and other farm equipment. According to the information on the back, this location was once the home of H. J. Berndt. Eleanora Oldag's home is in the background, and the two homes are surrounded by farmland.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

H. P. Jensen's Home

Description: A copy negative of a black and white photograph of Hans Peter Jensen (a.k.a. H.P. Jensen) sitting on a wood block that rests against the exterior facade of a light-colored building upon which a window is visible. According to accompanying information, Jensen was a postman. He is wearing a hat, a shirt, a vest, and pants and holds a cane in his right hand. His right foot rests on a sidewalk that has been paved amongst grass. Behind Jensen is the door to another building that looks like it ma… more
Date: 1930
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Maren Jensen at Home]

Description: Copy negative of a black and white photograph of Maren Jensen sitting on a sidewalk on her lawn. She is wearing glasses, a patterned dress with a white collar and shoes with socks. Her attention is on the camera but her hands are holding an open book as if she has been reading. Behind her is her home, which she shares with her husband, H.P. Jensen; it features a screen door and screened windows.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Portrait of a Mother and Her Two Children]

Description: Black and white portrait of Hansigne Larsen Wind and her two children, Ebbe and Abelone. Hansigne is seated in a wooden chair and is dressed in a long, dark gown. The children are standing on either side of Hansigne, with their arms placed in her lap. The back of the mat has a handwritten note which says, "Leaving Iowa to visit mother's family taken in 1895. Mother Ebbe. Daddy left for Tex in 1894, Oct. We 3 joined him here in June 1895."
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Woman Working on Restoration of the Pioneer House at the Danish Heritage Museum]

Description: Color photograph of a woman wearing a plaid shirt, standing by two small stacks of wooden planks on which she is focused. She is identified as Barbara Runnels and she is working on the reconstruction of the pioneer house at the Danish Heritage Museum. A nearly empty shelving unit is on her left and behind her are two windows.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Woman Doing Woodwork for the Restoration of the Pioneer House at the Danish Heritage Museum]

Description: Color photograph of Barbara Runnels standing behind table saw machine, next to which are two small stacks of wooden planks. A sliver of daylight is hitting the floor which is covered in sawdust. From the left, a hand that belongs to an unidentified individual is placed on the machine that is balanced atop the sawhorse. Barbara, who is wearing glasses, a red plaid shirt, jeans and white tennis shoes, has her attention focused on the hand to her left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society
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