Samuel Dale Myres papers.

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Samuel Dale Myres papers.

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Consists of the personal and business papers of Dr. Samuel D. Myres. Subjects covered include his education, his career as a lawyer and university professor, as well as his work as an editor and author. Materials include both business and personal correspondence, brochures, catalogs, newspaper clippings, maps, biographical information, financial records of Texas Western Press, final proofs of various books, photocopies of both newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, negatives, notebooks, handwritten notes, high school yearbooks, periodicals, books, and a typewritten draft of the manuscript of Myres' autobiography titled "The Education of a West Texan: A Personal Account, 1895-1985." Prominent correspondents include C. L. Sonnichsen and J. Carl Hertzog.

5.8 linear ft.

University of Texas at El Paso

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University of Texas at El Paso

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Myres, Samuel D. (Samuel Dale), 1899-

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Former professor of political science at UTEP and former editor at Texas Western Press. From the description of Samuel Dale Myres papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37186624 ...

Texas Western Press.

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Carl Hertzog founded the Texas Western Press in 1952. Carl Hertzog, a well known printer and book designer, was hired to teach some couses at the Texas School of Mines and persuaded president Wilson Elkins to let him set up a printing laboratory which developed into a scholarly press. In 1949 the College of Mines name was changed to Texas Western College and the press took that name as well. The first book under the Texas Western Press imprint in 1952 was The Spanish heritage of the Southwest by...

Hertzog, Carl 1902-1984

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Carl Hertzog was founder and Director of the Texas Western Press and noted typographer and book designer. From the description of Henry Ingram collection of Carl Hertzog material. 1964-1981. (Texas Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 15716952 Book designer, typographer, and printer. Born in 1902 as Jean Carl Hertzog in Lyons, France. Hertzog came to El Paso, Texas in 1923 to work for W.S. McMath & Co. In 1934, he started his own print shop,...

University of Texas at El Paso

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Sonnichsen, C. L. (Charles Leland), 1901-1991

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Biographical note: Historian and author; Sonnichsen was a professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso for over forty years. He wrote or edited 34 books and numerous articles during his career including "Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocker" in 1974, and "Tucson the Life and Times of An American City," in 1987. From the description of Sonnichsen research collection, 1972-1991. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 50710487 ...