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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2174 Collections and/or Records:

Weather

 File — Box 9, Folder: 22
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series: These files are titled and arranged (alphabetically) according to Reavis’ titles and arrangement. As a result, not all folder titles are entirely indicative of their contents. This sub-series is comprised of general subject files whose contents mostly pertain directly to research for The Ashes of Waco. However, some documents post-date the book, as Reavis continued his research work in the years that followed. The sub-series is dated according to when Reavis...
Dates: 1993-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1993-1995

Weaver [Randy]

 File — Box 9, Folder: 23
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series: These files are titled and arranged (alphabetically) according to Reavis’ titles and arrangement. As a result, not all folder titles are entirely indicative of their contents. This sub-series is comprised of general subject files whose contents mostly pertain directly to research for The Ashes of Waco. However, some documents post-date the book, as Reavis continued his research work in the years that followed. The sub-series is dated according to when Reavis...
Dates: 1993-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1993-1995

Website: Presentation Points

 File — Multiple Containers
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

Drafts, page proofs, website materials, presentation points, correspondence, financial documents, reviews, contracts and marketing materials all chronicle the writing, editing and marketing of Reavis’ 1995 book

Dates: 1993-2000, undated

Weems, Eddie (UT Press / Baylor University), 1963-1996

 File — Box 31, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates: 1963-1996

Weeren - Wiley, 1991-2004, undated

 File — Box 31, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates: 1991-2004, undated

Wendell, Jaydean

 File — Box 9, Folder: 24
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series: These files are titled and arranged (alphabetically) according to Reavis’ titles and arrangement. As a result, not all folder titles are entirely indicative of their contents. This sub-series is comprised of general subject files whose contents mostly pertain directly to research for The Ashes of Waco. However, some documents post-date the book, as Reavis continued his research work in the years that followed. The sub-series is dated according to when Reavis...
Dates: 1993-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1993-1995

Western Writers Symposium in Albany, TX – correspondence, clipping, printout of speech (not used), 1998

 File — Box 21, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series:

The third series covers speeches that Graves wrote and delivered, arranged alphabetically by the event or occasion. Like the previous two series, these files contain drafts, correspondence, published forms, notes and other materials related to their subjects.

Dates: 1998

Westphalia Bicentennial (5 photographs), black and white, 1976

 File — Box 5, Folder: 10
Series Description From the Series:

These photographs are arranged by subject, including William Pool, Eugene C. Barker and his family, buildings and events. Most of the subjects of the photographs, other than Pool and Barker, are unidentified. The majority of the photographs are undated, but most of them look as though they were taken between the 1930s and 1970s. The collection includes seven envelopes of negatives and a film canister with an audio recording of Pool.

Dates: 1976

“What Texas Means to Me,” research notes and drafts, undated

 File — Box 14, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series surveys Harrigan's creative works from his work as ad writer at the University Co-op to the publication of his book, Water and Light. It includes manuscript drafts, notes, notebooks, galley proofs, correspondence, magazines, clippings, financial and legal papers, screenplays, photographs and artifacts. In some cases Harrigan added notes and inscriptions describing the materials and providing background information....
Dates: undated

White man holding bucket next to a steam powered water pump with belt system. Group four white individuals and one black youngster in background across stream, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 38
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_038
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

White Master’s Hood, undated

 Item — Box 1989
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This addition to the John Graves archives includes various artifacts from Graves’ ranch at Hard Scrabble: fishing lures and spool cases, cow and deer skulls, a cattle brand, photographs and uniforms from Graves’ military service, typewriters, geological surveys and nautical charts, and signed illustrations by Scott Gentling. This accession is the final accrual from Hard Scrabble ranch with the exception of a small amount of material currently in quarantine due to live silverfish.

Dates: undated

White woman posing on porch of house with another house in background, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 30
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_030
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

White woman reading at Jacob's Well, Wimberley, Texas, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 0112223013650], item: 03
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_003
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

White woman sitting outdoors in a rocking chair with a white infant on her lap, next to an exterior house wall, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 25
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_025
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

Whitecliff [Kevin]

 File — Box 9, Folder: 25
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series: These files are titled and arranged (alphabetically) according to Reavis’ titles and arrangement. As a result, not all folder titles are entirely indicative of their contents. This sub-series is comprised of general subject files whose contents mostly pertain directly to research for The Ashes of Waco. However, some documents post-date the book, as Reavis continued his research work in the years that followed. The sub-series is dated according to when Reavis...
Dates: 1993-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1993-1995