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[Historic Marker Application: Smith-Clark-Smith House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Smith-Clark-Smith House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.

Date: 1975

Creator: Texas Historical Commission

Item Type: Text

Location: 30.277603 -97.744805

Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: July 26, 1975]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on July 26, 1975 at the Sheraton-Crest Inn, Austin, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order and presided over by President Joe M. Hill, Jr.

Date: July 1975

Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-641

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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of Senate Bill 1110 abolishing the office of county superintendent in Travis and Gonzales Counties

Date: July 14, 1975

Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Clipping: Art Auction Saturday at UT]

Clipping from the Austin American-Statesman, "Art Auction Saturday at UT," published November 28, 1975. The clipping's story is about an annual art auction that will be held at the University of Texas, with more than five hundred (500) works created by UT art students. Steven Fromholz, as well as three (3) others will serve as auctioneers for the event. The clipping includes a photograph of Fromholz, a musician, playing for inmates at a county jail.

Date: November 28, 1975

Creator: Austin American-Statesman

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Jane Smoot to Trueman O’Quinn]

Letter referencing photograph of Lawrence Smoot at age twelve (12) that he witnessed the marriage of William Sydney Porter and Athol Estes.

Date: August 17, 1975

Creator: Smoot, Jane

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from Mary Mowinckle Johnson to Camila, February 13, 1975]

Photocopy of a letter from Mary Mowinckle Johnson to a woman named Camila. The letter goes into details about Johnson's time as a teacher at the Eanes Rock Schoolhouse and she also inquires about the Marshall family and states that there are probably books about them in the Travis Country Library.

Date: February 13, 1975

Creator: Johnson, Mary Mowinckle

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Westbank Community Library District

[Notes from an Interview with Mike Molberg]

Typewritten notes from an interview with Mike Molberg. Molberg talks about his time at Eanes School and what a typical day was like for the students who attended as well as a list of women who taught at Eanes School and what time periods they were teaching. At the top right of the document "VF People: Eanes Area - 1975 (Molberg)" is written in pen with "Johnson" written under it in pencil.

Date: 1975

Creator: Eanes History Center

Item Type: Text

Partner: Westbank Community Library District

[Clipping: "Woman Recalls World War II Pilot Days"]

Newspaper clipping with an article about Ruth Florey's and Clinnie Lovvorn's service with the WASP.

Date: April 6, 1975

Creator: Borden, Robert C.

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Miss Ziggy Hunter: Her Accomplishments in the Field of Aviation

A compilation of the many achievements of Women Airforce Service Pilot flight instructor, Ziggy Hunter, as a pioneer in aviation. Notes on the cover page indicate that the author, Nettie Moore, was a WASP control tower operator and that her attempts to gain national honor for Hunter have gone unsuccessful as of 1980.

Date: May 10, 1975

Creator: More, Nettie D.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Typed Interview with Dan Molberg]

Photocopy of an interview with Dan Molberg who talks about what life was like for students at Eanes Rock Schoolhouse in the 1940's. He describes how classes were held in two rooms known as the "big room" and "little room" and goes on to talk about the different meals that were served each day. The interview also consists of details about how recess was held, PTA events, and fundraisers that occurred during this time.

Date: 1975

Creator: Eanes History Center

Item Type: Paper

Partner: Westbank Community Library District

[Oral History Interview with Mary Ellen Mowinckle Johnson, April 28, 1975]

Photocopy of a handwritten letter from Mary Johnson to Dorothy Depwe, included is also a survey that was filled out by Mary Johnson asking her about what life was like at the Eanes School as well as her role as a teacher at the time. The letter from Johnson talks about a picture that was found by Johnson that she feels Depwe could be interested in as well a robbery that occurred in which Johnson's watch and fountain pen fillers were stolen.

Date: April 28, 1975

Creator: Depwe, Dorothy & Johnson, Mary Ellen Mowinckle

Item Type: Text

Partner: Westbank Community Library District

[Interview with Emmett Shelton and Benton Beard]

Transcription of an interview with Emmett Shelton and Benton Beard written in a Blue Book about the rise of the Eanes area as well as the life and times of the Beard family. The essay goes into land development, PTA, and prohibition.

Date: 1975

Item Type: Text

Partner: Westbank Community Library District

Hilltopper (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 11, 1975

Biweekly student newspaper from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the college community along with advertising.

Date: February 11, 1975

Item Type: Newspaper