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The Chanticleer, 2010-03-22, Coastal Carolina University Mar 2010

The Chanticleer, 2010-03-22, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

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Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Sc 2213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Sc 2213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2213. Letter, 15 December 1975, from Anne Pence Davis to Dorothy Edwards Townsend responding to her request for biographical material, probably for inclusion in Kentucky in American Letters, vol. III, 1913-1975. Includes two news clippings about Davis' novel The Top Hand of Lone Tree Ranch.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 26, March 22, 2010, Grand Valley State University Mar 2010

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 26, March 22, 2010, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Mrs. Bessie Spann Eason Mar 2010

Mrs. Bessie Spann Eason

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 50, March 22, 2010, Grand Valley State University Mar 2010

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 50, March 22, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Della M. Johnson Mar 2010

Della M. Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Interview No. 1471, José Tello Mar 2010

Interview No. 1471, José Tello

Combined Interviews

Mr. Tello briefly recalls his childhood and how it was growing up in the ranch he lived in; while working in the ranch he heard about the Bracero Program and traveled to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, where the processing center was; he explains that the process was fairly easy for him and that there weren’t many requirements or medical examinations; he recalls crossing the border at Laredo, Texas; as a bracero he completed several contracts picking cotton and radish in the states of Texas, California, and Arkansas; he briefly describes the living and working conditions at the …

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Interview No. 1466, Antonio Garcia Delgado Mar 2010

Interview No. 1466, Antonio Garcia Delgado

Combined Interviews

Antonio Garcia Delgado worked picking pumpkins since he was a child. He traveled to Monterey, Mexico with his father and both were hired to work as braceros. Garcia worked picking cotton in Santa Rosa, Texas. He renewed his contract and worked in Mumford, Texas. Garcia never knew how much money he earned during that time because his father collected his checks. Garcia collected around two hundred and twenty pounds of cotton per day. Garcia traveled with his wife to San Antonio, Texas and worked without documents He feels proud because he became an American Citizen.

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Jacob Heard Sr. Mar 2010

Jacob Heard Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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A Visual Tour Of Oahu’S Chapels Of Yesteryear, Riley Moffat Mar 2010

A Visual Tour Of Oahu’S Chapels Of Yesteryear, Riley Moffat

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Andrew Jenson was Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for many years. He was born in 1850 in Damgren, Denmark. The family joined the Church in 1854 and emigrated to Utah in 1866, settling in Pleasant Grove. After a mission back to Denmark Andrew become interested in publishing material about the history of the Church. He began his Church service in 1888 by throughout the Eastern U.S. collecting material on Church history.

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Mormon Pacific Historical Society 2010 Annual Mphs Conference Program Mar 2010

Mormon Pacific Historical Society 2010 Annual Mphs Conference Program

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

No abstract provided.

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History Of The Laie 1st Ward, Lorene Pukahi, Harold Pukahi Mar 2010

History Of The Laie 1st Ward, Lorene Pukahi, Harold Pukahi

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Directories of Laie LDS wards.

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"Make A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord": Brass Bands And Cultural Identity In Tonga's Christian Kingdom, David Kammerer Mar 2010

"Make A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord": Brass Bands And Cultural Identity In Tonga's Christian Kingdom, David Kammerer

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

This dissertation considers music's role in constructing collective identity and generating social meaning, with the aim of yielding new insights into the workings of indigenous agency in cross-cultural encounters. In the Pacific nation of Tonga a unique set of socio-cultural forces has shaped a distinctive contemporary identity. Tonga's government comprises the only monarchy in the contemporary Pacific and represents the only Polynesian group that was not colonized in the political sense. Although Western ideas permeated Tongan culture over the past two centuries, these transformations occurred largely as a result of Tongan choices. The introduction of Christianity in the nineteenth century …

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History Of The Laie 2nd Ward, Jay Wrathal Mar 2010

History Of The Laie 2nd Ward, Jay Wrathal

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Portraits of Bishops of the Laie 2nd Ward

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Interview No. 1468, Rafael Gonzalez M. Mar 2010

Interview No. 1468, Rafael Gonzalez M.

Combined Interviews

Mr. González talks about his childhood and growing up working in the mines since a young age; in 1950 he moves to the city of Nava in México, close to the border, where he finds out about the Bracero Program; he enlists and goes through the hiring process; furthermore, he mentions the hiring center, the requisites, and the medical examinations they went through; upon crossing he worked in the cotton fields, as well as in chard, lettuce, and beet root fields, in different ranches of the state of Texas; besides of the working conditions, he describes the living conditions, the …

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Interview No. 1465, Asención Flores Mar 2010

Interview No. 1465, Asención Flores

Combined Interviews

Asención Flores Saldaña started working when he was ten years old. He heard about the Bracero Program when he was in Jalisco. Flores was hired as a bracero in Empalme, Sonora. In 1926, he worked as a bracero for three months in California. In 1929, he was hired again as a bracero and worked picking cotton in Pecos. Flores only worked three days in Pecos because the weather was very bad. Flores renewed his contract and worked in Soledad picking tomatoes. He worked six days per week and sometimes all week. The salary was $12.00 per day, but he paid …

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Interview No. 1469, Jose Mata Alvarez Mar 2010

Interview No. 1469, Jose Mata Alvarez

Combined Interviews

Jose Mata Alvarez started working at a very young age. He traveled to Tamaulipas, Mexico to get hired as a bracero for the first time. In 1960 he worked in Texas and in 1961 he moved to California. Mata worked picking beetroot and cleaning beans. He renewed his contract and worked for the last time as a bracero in 1964 in Denver, Colorado. He also worked picking grapes and lemon. Sometime, he worked six days a week and more than eight hours per day. The salary was based on the quantity not on the hours worked per day. He was …

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Beatrice Donaldson Byrd Mar 2010

Beatrice Donaldson Byrd

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Gwendolyn Denise Richmond-Lewis Mar 2010

Gwendolyn Denise Richmond-Lewis

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Interview No. 1470, Cipriano Romero Mar 2010

Interview No. 1470, Cipriano Romero

Combined Interviews

Cipriano Romero worked picking cotton since he was ten years old. He traveled to Monterrey, Nuevo León, México to get hired in the bracero program. In 1956, Romero started working picking cotton in Helena, Arkansas. He renewed his contract and worked in Stockton, California. Romero had his first child at 22 years old in Arkansas. The salary was between $1.55 and $2.550 per hundred pounds of cotton. He worked as many hours as he could five days a week. Romero never had problems with the food or the housing provided in the different places where he worked. Romero remembered that …

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Interview No. 1467, Ramón Gil Mar 2010

Interview No. 1467, Ramón Gil

Combined Interviews

Ramón Gil worked as a bracero at Salt Pacific in Sacramento, California. Gil organized the material for the railroad for six months, then he moved to Tampico, Mexico. In Tamaulipas, he worked in the Mexican oil business and later he moved to Buffalo, New York, where he got married and started a family. As a bracero, he was paid every 15 days; his wage was $8.16 per hour. Gil had only one bad experience as a bracero, they were supposed to have a savings account at Wells Fargo, but he has never seen a penny of that money.

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Mr. Thomas Rozier Mar 2010

Mr. Thomas Rozier

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2212. Lawrence Otto Toomey's memoir titled "Duty in the Medical Corps Reserves, May 11, 1942-January 30, 1966," dealing chiefly with his service in the Pacific during World War II. Also includes a copy of his obituary.

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Thompson, John Quincy, 1831-1927 (Sc 2209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Thompson, John Quincy, 1831-1927 (Sc 2209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan, and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2209. Letter, 9 June 1924, from J. Q. Thompson, Troy, Texas, to Hattie B. Hale, Nashville, Arkansas. He relates the names of several officers and volunteers in an Arkansas Civil War regiment organized in 1862 and in which he and Dr. Andrew Hale served.

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Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 2215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 2215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2215. Paper: "Pleasant J. Potter College for Young Ladies" written for a journalism class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College; also a reminiscence about Bowling Green's First Christian Church as well as Tyler's obituary.

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United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Louisville, Kentucky (Mss 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Louisville, Kentucky (Mss 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 315. Minute book and membership roster of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Louisville, Kentucky, 18 June 1897 to 9 May 1899.

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Thornton, Theresa Boyd (Sc 2210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Thornton, Theresa Boyd (Sc 2210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2210. Paper: "A Church of Their Own", a history of Cecilia Memorial Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes a photograph of the church and notes from Thornton's interviews.

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Traughber, John, 1793-1867 - Letters To (Sc 2214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Traughber, John, 1793-1867 - Letters To (Sc 2214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2214. Three letters from family members in Lincoln County, North Carolina to John Traughber and his wife in Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The writers discuss the health of family members, crop prices, the discovery of gold, and, in a 17 March 1861 letter, the possibility of war.

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Interview No. 1462, Fabian Landaverde S. Mar 2010

Interview No. 1462, Fabian Landaverde S.

Combined Interviews

Mr. Landaverde briefly remembers his childhood talking about his hometown, and about playing and working in the lands along with his father; before he was a bracero, he entered the United States in 1951 to work in the railroad tracks in Colorado; in 1955, Mr. Landaverde, who was already married, went through the hiring process to become a bracero; he recalls going through the centers in Monterrey and El Paso, Texas; in addition, he explains that, because of his little knowledge in English, he helped as a translator in one of the centers; he also describes the hiring process where …

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Uncharted Territory, Ananya Vajpeyi Mar 2010

Uncharted Territory, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

Srinath Raghavan’s first book, War and Peace in Modern India, follows Guha in terms of both method and period, excavating the archival record to explore five significant domestic and international conflicts that beset India under Nehru.

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