San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; African Americans--Interviews.; Women lawyers--Texas--Bexar County
Attorney and lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. The first African American to graduate from St. Mary's University Law School, San Antonio, TX (1956) and the first African American woman to practice law in Bexar County, TX. Topics: Wiley...
Photographers.; Photography.; Photography--Negatives.; Rock paintings.; San Antonio (Tex.)--History.
San Antonio, Texas Jim Zintgraff's father started a still photography business in San Antonio in the early 1920's and worked as cameraman for the movie, Wings, that was filmed nearby in 1926. Zintgraff describes some of the many people and places...
816 Terrell Road, San Antonio, Texas
Longtime San Antonio Light photographer Harvey Belgin recorded many of South Texas’ most memorable events of the 1940s-1980s, including the end of the 1950s drought with his famous photograph of a rain-spotted...
African Americans--Segregation; African Americans--Texas; San Antonio (Tex.)-- Social life and customs
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio photographer Charles Barksdale recalls his childhood which spanned the racial segregation of the 1950s to integration in the 1960s. His early memories include entering the “Black-Only” door to the balcony of the...
San Antonio (Tex.)--Economic conditions.; HemisFair (1968 : San Antonio, Tex.)
A fourth-generation San Antonio resident, Bob Polunsky relates professional history as newspaper columnist, family history, and changes in San Antonio as a result of Hemisfair.
Ranch life--Texas; Women ranchers; Coleman County (Tex.)--History; Burkes, Amanda; Lea, Mabel (Doss) Day, 1854-1906; Day, William H., 1833-1881
Amanda Burkes and Mabel Day Lea were widowed while young women, but successfully continued ranching following the death of their husbands in the late nineteenth century.
Begun in 1947 as a Wednesday afternoon quilting club in the Brady and Voca, TX area, the women gather to work cooperatively, preserving the history, art and techniques of traditional quilting.
Photographers.; Photography; Photography--Negatives; Rock paintings; San Antonio (Tex.)--History
San Antonio, Texas Jim Zintgraff's father started a still photography business in San Antonio in the early 1920's and worked as cameraman for the movie, Wings, that was filmed nearby in 1926. Zintgraff describes some of the many people and places...
Kickapoo Indians.; Traditional medicine--Texas.; Anderson County (Tex.).; Limestone County (Tex.).
A professional photographer, newspaper editor and political activist whose love of East Texas and its history never ebbed. Her memories paint a picture of rural life among the pines from the 1930s through the 80s.