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Woolridge, Floyd Alpheaus, 1906-1986. Papers, 1925-1966, 1957-1963.

Title: Papers, 1925-1966, 1957-1963.

Includes correspondence, scrapbook and printed materials, newsclippings, and photographs. Collection bulks (1957-1963) with correspondence dealing with the activities of the Texas Technological Board of Directors, including the firing of three tenured faculty members. Of special interest are early photos of Texas Technological College and its football team.

ArchivalResource: 358 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23359433 View

Jones, William Clarence, 1845-1920. Letters, 1903.

Title: Letters, 1903.

Letters, including one dated 1903 Sept. 9, from Thomas H. Smith, chancellor of the (Ala.) Southwestern Chancery Division in Mobile, Ala., to William Clarence Jones in Montgomery, Ala. Discusses an introduced bill that would allow an Inferior Criminal Court judge to receive a larger yearly salary. He suggests the bill be amended to include payment of travel expenses of the Supernumerary judge. A letter, 1903 Sept. 12, from Smith to Jones, further discusses the issue. A third letter, 1903 Sept. 26, from E.N. and P.E. Jones, lawyers, in Camden, Ala., to W.C. Jones in Montgomery, discusses Fortune Williams, a "colored man," who failed the teacher's licensing examination.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122330755 View

Pearce, William Martin, Jr., 1913-. Papers, 1932-1974.

Title: Papers, 1932-1974.

Collection documents Pearces's career, research and literary activities. Includes literary productions, newsclippngs, correspondence and articles from historical journals. Much of the material relates to Pearce's book on the Matador Land and Cattle Company, and to work done with Carl Coke Rister on Rister's book about the oil industry. Contains correspondence regarding academic and administrative affairs at Texas Tech. Also contains accounts of archaeological expeditions to sand hill sites in Bailey and Lamb counties of Texas in 1932 and Mexico in 1940. Includes two literary productions by Pearces's mother, Annie E. Bates Pearce, dealing with life on the High Plains in the early twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 1, 652 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22837394 View