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[News Script: SMU Rice]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Southwest Conference football game between Southern Methodist University and Rice University in Houston.
Date: October 20, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Proclamation by Roy Hofheinz, Mayor of the City of Houston, of League of United Latin American Citizens Week]

Description: Proclamation by Roy Hofheinz, Mayor of the City of Houston, of League of United Latin American Citizens Week. Proclamation declares February 14 to 20th as LULAC week. The Mayor urges Houston citizens to recognize and support these dates to honor "Twenty Five Years of Community Service" of LULAC members. This proclamation was written in celebration of LULAC's twenty-fifth anniversary.
Date: January 1954
Creator: Hofheinz, Roy, 1912-1982
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[News Script: Rice LSU]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Rice University's football team playing Louisiana State University's.
Date: September 24, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Congregation Adath Yeshurun Board of Trustees Minutes: December 8, 1941]

Description: Minutes for a regular meeting of the Congregation Adath Yeshurun Board of Trustees documenting attendees and topics of discussion. This meeting consisted only of a resolution of condolence to the family of Ben Susholtz due to the death of Lena Kline Susholtz.
Date: December 8, 1941
Creator: Congregation Adath Yeshurun. Board of Trustees.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the post having projecting pins or studs combined with the gate having the hinges composed of a pair of plates bolted together, the said plates being swelled outward to provide collars, which are provided with cams" (lines 66-71).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Friday, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Information Sheet About Big Walter Price]

Description: Promotional flier advertising Big Walter Price as a spokesperson for Anheuser-Busch beer. A short biography of Price and an overview of a blues music resurgence is provided, followed by why Price would make a good pitchman for Busch beer.
Date: 1983~
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Removable Can Top.

Description: Patent for a new and improved removable lid for cans. This design "consists of a can top or protector to be fitted over the top of the can which has had one of its heads cut out in such a manner that the contents of the can can be easily and conveniently removed and, should it be desired, the life and usefulness of the can prolonged at a trifling expense" (lines 24-30).
Date: December 25, 1883
Creator: Grainger, Charles J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence or Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence or gate. This design consists in "[a] fence or gate composed entirely of pipes interchangeably connected together by couplings, and consisting of the long tubular pickets and the intermediate short tubular pickets, each long tubular picket being formed by two short tubular pickets connected by an intermediate coupling in the form of a Greek cross, a similar coupling at the top of each long and short tubular picket, and the T-shaped couplings at their bottoms,… more
Date: January 20, 1891
Creator: Friday, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter to John J. Herrera - 1955-02-15]

Description: Letter to John J. Herrera, from unspecific League of United Latina American Citizens source, dated February 15, 1955, in regards to the declaration by the Supreme Council that the offices of the National Organizer and the National Chaplain are vacant and inactive. The author of the letter states "I hope that the action taken by the Supreme Council will not keep you from working very closely with me on LULAC matters [...] I would like to appoint you as a Chairman of a National Committee to study… more
Date: February 15, 1955
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

Heel Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved heel attachment. This design consists in "[t]he shoe having the sole provided with the plate having the struck-up flange and U-plate, the flange and plate forming the groove, and the plate being further provided with the perforation, in combination with the heel provided at its upper end with the plate, supported slightly above the same and adapted to fit the groove and provided with a perforation aligning with the [former] perforation, and the screw inserted downw… more
Date: July 30, 1889
Creator: Grumbach, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-455

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the City of Houston may participate in the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority.
Date: November 7, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Gene Gutierrez - 1952-01-30]

Description: Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to Gene Gutierrez, R.T., Medical Department, Aluminum Company of America in Port Lavaca, Texas, dated January 30, 1952. The letter discusses details of the installation for the Palacios LULAC Council on February 3, 1952.
Date: January 30, 1952
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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