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Interview No. 27, Chester Chope

Combined Interviews

Early 20th Century El Paso and Ciudad Juárez; size and atmosphere of the two cities; personalities of members of the newspaper staff; political corruption; social life; Chinese population; Ciudad Juárez during Prohibition; Fort Bliss; Pancho Villa; improvements in transportation.

Interview No. 35, Eleanor Greet

Combined Interviews

Career of Capt. Greet; importance of El Paso as a living place for tuberculosis patients at the turn of the century; leading families of early El Paso.

Interview No. 34, Modesto Gómez

Combined Interviews

Account of early 20th Century El Paso, including saloons, schools, and city buildings.

Interview No. 26, Emmett Issacs

Combined Interviews

Early recollections of his youth in the Organ-Las Cruces, New Mexico, area, including cattle ranching, Indians, homesteaders, Pat Garrett, frontier justice, stagecoach lines, mining, and the Lincoln County War.

Interview No. 12, Mr. Ernest E. Polk, Mrs. Ernest E. Polk

Combined Interviews

Life in Texas in the early part of the 20th Century, including business, politics, and social life.

Interview No. 17, Willis Walter

Combined Interviews

Biography; incidents and personalities of New Mexico history, including Pat Garrett, Martin Lohman, and A. B. Fall.

Interview No. 14, Vincent Ravel, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Recounts immigration of family from Lithuania to U. S.; briefly sketches history of Jewish community in El Paso; father's role in founding Congregation of Mena Zion; arranged marriage of parents; opening of pawn shop in South El Paso, City Loan and Jewelry, by father and cousin Sam Ravel; shootings in El Paso at turn of century; purchase of ammunition, guns, and pistols by Pancho Villa; Columbus Raid; Pershing Expedition to Mexico; El Paso's red light district on Ninth Street in 1930s; physical examinations of prostitutes; comments on El Paso's recognition as health center for tuberculosis patients; recounts tuberculosis sanitoriums in …

Interview No. 2, Mrs. William Shapiro

Combined Interviews

El Paso during the 1940's; social and cultural activities; El Paso Symphony Orchestra; her involvement in the Conference for Human Welfare (group to promote integration in El Paso); strikers at ASARCO and Phelps Dodge refineries after World War II.

Interview No. 1, Irene C. Lowe

Combined Interviews

Biography; incidents and personalities of El Paso during the 1930's; cultural and social activities; Ciudad Juárez during the 1930's; Prohibition; discrimination in El Paso.

Interview No. 15, George F. Simpson

Combined Interviews

Incidents and personalities of early 20th Century El Paso, including the career of Capt. Greet, the Tenderloin District, and political corruption.

Grandfather Tales Of Scarborough, Augustus F. Moulton

Maine Collection

Grandfather Tales of Scarborough

by Augustus F. Moulton

Foreword by John Clair Minot

Katahdin Publishing Company, Augusta, Maine, 1925.

"Printed in Maine on Maine-Made Paper, LEWISTON JOURNAL PRESS"

Contents: My Grandfather / The Fabyans and the Millikens / The Stuart Brook / Ezra Carter Homestead / Roads and Highways / The Movement for Better Highways / Dunstan of the Alger Settlement / The Scarboro Marshes and the Dyke / The Rivers and the Old Seaport / The Shipping and the Shipyard / The King Family and Resident People / Old Dunstan Corner / Old Times in the Vicinity / Taverns …

Part 06 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 11 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 02 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 08 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 09 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 05 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 04 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Bowling Green And The Twelfth Kentucky Press Association, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

This press association report written by K. B. Grahn, the editor of the Greenup Independent, gives a overview of Bowling Green in 1879 with discussion of the courthouse, churches, College Hill, Water Works, Gas Works, Newspapers, banks, Police, Jail, Colleges, Fairview Cemetery, Fair Grounds, Lost River Mill, land values with crops, Bowling Green Manufacturing Company, Limestone Works, Bowling Green [Axe] Handle Works, Kentucky Stave and Heading Factory, Sash Factory, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Trunk Line, locks, Green and Barren River Navigation Company, Livery stables, hotels, and Barren River.