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[T&P Train #610]

Description: Photograph of T&P train #610 moving near Spring, Texas with a faint plume of smoke rising from the engine. There are a few people visible to the left of the train. Written underneath are "Spring, Texas" and "Tom Kelcec."
Date: unknown
Creator: Kelcec, Tom
Partner: The Grace Museum

Spring Quadrangle

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1982
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.06 -95.44
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with August Lastrappe, July 21, 2016

Description: Mr. Lastrappe spent his formative years in Conroe, Texas. He went to school at Booker T. Washington. Upon graduating, he went to California, where he witnessed the Watts Riot. Following that, he went to Chicago and then Seattle, where he worked primarily in juvenile detention facilities, then retired and returned to Texas. Mr. Lastrappe's interview describes segregation in Conroe, black-owned businesses, discrimination in Chicago, comparisons between Texas, Chicago, and Seattle, and a discussio… more
Date: July 21, 2016
Duration: 59 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Lastrappe, August; May, Meredith & Howard, Jasmin
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Daler Wade, July 25, 2016

Description: Mrs. Wade attended an all-Black school in Houston and during freedom of choice the Black students collectively decided not to integrate because white school officials had sought to only allow the top Black students to integrate. Wade benefited from the land ownership of her family. By owning land, Wade's mother was able to take care of her two children following the early death of her husband. Wade attributed her father's early death to an injury that occurred during his military service. Wade… more
Date: July 25, 2016
Duration: 3 hours 08 seconds
Creator: Howard, Jasmine & Wade, Daler
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Spring Quadrangle

Description: Satellite image topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.06 -95.44
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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