Photographs

Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, collected research, notes, manuscripts, interviews, book drafts, and lecture notes document the scholarly career of Dr. Ben Procter.  The material dates from 1840 through 2006 and covers Dr. Procter's major areas of scholarly interest, William Randolph Hearst, the Texas Rangers (law enforcement agency), and John H. Reagan, Postmaster General of the Confederate States of America.  Also part of the collection are class notes from Procter's time at Harvard...

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This collection contains correspondence, diaries, record books, manuscript drafts, photographs, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the papers are dedicated to the Character Research Project founded by Ligon. There is also extensive correspondence between Ligon and Eli Lilly, who supported his research.

Scope and Contents Postcards, photographs, menus and other ephemera collected by Helen Spurck Walts during her travels around the world. Postcards, many of them blank, are views of Italy and North Africa. The photographs are buildings and monuments from Washington D.C. and the Northeastern United States. Snapshots document Mary Pickford and artist James Montgomery Flagg (artist who created iconic Uncle Sam “I Want YOU for the U.S. Army poster) promoting War Bonds in 1918. There are 45 menus from her...

Scope and Contents The collection is divided into two series: I. Scrapbooks 1934-1961; II. Photographs 1950- 1960. The first series, Scrapbooks, 1934-1961 includes three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, magazines, playbills, programs, pictures, and letters related to his career as a conductor. The first scrapbook [large one] chronicles his life’s work from 1934 to 1957 and focuses on Hobday’s performances in Great Britain, France, and Italy. One-third of the first scrapbook concerns his time in Fort Worth...

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The collection includes a complete set of letters written by Joseph Warren Hays to his family while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. The letters detail his aviation training across the United States and his service in Europe toward the end of the war. In his later years, Mr. Hays wrote recollections of his missions over Europe. The collection also includes printed publications, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, a photograph of Hays, and ephemera.

Collection Scope and Content Summary The collection includes articles, newspaper clippings, and news releases related to her career. The collection also contains master class brochures, concert notices, and papers related to Kraus' teaching at TCU. The bulk of the material concerns the preparation for the 1983 gala TCU hosted in her honor and the production of the Lili Kraus video broadcast. Gala budget sheets, invitations, speeches, scripts, and publicity plans are all included. The broadcast information includes news...

Scope and Contents Photographs, clippings, ephemera, scrapbooks, writings, legal documents, and other material document the life of Mary Elizabeth Waits Scott Williams, daughter of TCU president E. M. Waits. The collection is divided into four series. The first series includes Mary Beth’s biography, clippings, ephemera, photographs, scrapbook, and writings, including her school reports and papers, as well as speeches and writings. The second series includes material related to the death of her first...

Collection Scope and Content Summary The collection includes correspondence, booklets, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, catalogues, tax receipts, leases, advertisement flyers, brochures, and minutes from the Monnig Dry Goods Company. The photographs of the building, located in news clippings, dated from 1912-1962 provided the best documentation to illustrate the various stages of growth and change of the building interior and exterior. Most of the correspondence and legal documents are dated from the late 1920s...

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Scrapbooks, photos, negatives, TCU and non-TCU ballet programs, dance magazines, dance step books, posters, and TCU performance videotapes from 1914-1996. Includes documents of the Fort Worth Ballet Association.

Series Scope and Content Summary Series Scope and Content Summary The records document the photography used by TCU Magazine and TCU Marketing and Communication for publications and marketing materials. The series is arranged alphabetically by subject. Much of the photographic material is undated but has been identified with an approximate date when possible. In keeping with original order, many of the folders have overlapping dates; therefore, there is not a strict chronological...

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The papers include programs and other materials related to his years as choral director for TCU, University Christian Church, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Series I. includes video and audio recordings from various concerts. Series II. Includes ephemera, correspondence, class material, newspaper clippings, programs, photographs, and other assorted material There are quite a few programs from TCU concerts and programs from non TCU venues.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, printed material, programs, invitations, announcements, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and newspaper slicks document Ruth Millett’s life and career from 1927 through her retirement in 1967. The bulk of the papers are clippings and full page reproductions of her columns, We, the Women, and Mind Your Manners, written for the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndication service from 1937-1967. We, the Women addressed women’s issues of the...

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Correspondence, brochures, playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera document the operation and productions of the Scott Theatre Actors Repertory Company (STARCO) from 1967-1969.

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This collection contains research, interviews, and audiovisual materials collected by Sherrie Reynolds and her staff for the TCU Story project and for the book Arms of God: the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, 2011.

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The bulk of the papers contains artifacts from WWII, documents, correspondence, ephemera, journals, photographs, etc. from his time as a prisoner of war in Hirohata, Japan. The collection also covers his post-military life and contains Texas Christian University ephemera, photographs, correspondence, etc..

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The collection contains one news clipping, photographs of various stage productions and individual actors, individual and bound volumes of programs from the Fort Worth Little Theatre from 1925-1942.