Papers, 1843-1966, 1925-1961.

Texas Development Company.

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Texas Technological College

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Dr. Billy Ross, the chair of the School of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University, and a Mass Communications faculty member, Richard Schroeder, went to Pueblo, Colorado, to film German World War II art works which were supposed to be returned to Germany. Ross received permission from the U. S. Army to film the works. Ross wrote down the documentation information that went with each art work while Schroeder did the photography work. From the guide to the German Art from the Bill...

Rister, Carl Coke, 1889-1955

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Historian, author, professor. Born in 1889 in Hayrick, Coke County, Texas. Awarded B. A. (1915) by Simmons College in Abilene, Texas , M.A. (1919) and Ph. D. (1925) by George Washington University. Served on the faculty of Simmons University (now Hardin-Simmons University) from 1920-1929; University of Oklahoma from 1929-1951; and Texas Technological College from 1951-1955. Served as president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, and was a member of numerous academic and historical orga...

Jones, Clifford Bartlett, 1885-1972

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Businessman, ranch manager and college president. Born in 1885 in Rico, Colorado. Manager of the Spur Ranch in Dickens County, Texas, from 1913-1939. Instrumental in the establishment of Texas Technological College, served on the original Board of Directors, and was the third president of the college from 1939-1944. Member of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce and the Good Roads Movement. Active in land sales and colonization, banking and politics, and numerous social, historical and fraternal o...

Muskingham College.

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Cunningham, Albert Benjamin, 1888-1962

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Born in 1888 in West Virginia, Albert B. Cunningham was a veteran of World War I and a Methodist circuit rider. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1929 and came to Texas Tech University where he taught English for 20 years. Cunningham completed 42 novels and numerous short stories prior to his death in 1962. Many of these were mysteries written under the pseudonyms Garth Hale or Estil Dale. From the guide to the Albert B. Cunningham Photograph Collection, SWCPC 302 E2....