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Humor

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

The Victoria Advocate, Historical Edition, 1968

 File — Box 7, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series:

Various clippings and newspapers collected by Fowler.

Dates: 1968

“The World’s Fare” column, 1968, undated

 File — Box 2, Folder: 20-21
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: 1968, undated

“Towering Texan” column, February 1947 - April 1947

 File — Box 2, Folder: 18
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: February 1947 - April 1947

“Tribute to Ernie Pyle” audio reel, undated

 File — Box 2, Folder: 10
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: undated

Unlabeled, undated

 File — Box 6, Folder: 10
Series Description From the Series:

¼ inch reel-to-reel tapes

Dates: undated

Unlabeled, undated

 File — Box 6, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series:

¼ inch reel-to-reel tapes

Dates: undated

Various, 1968, undated

 File — Box 6, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series:

The Correspondence series is divided into periods, which are World War II, Vietnam, Chili, and family condolences. An exception to this is the Letters to Fowler, found in Writings-World War II, which includes hand-written and typed notes from various colleagues.

Dates: 1968, undated

“Vietnam Diary”, Dallas Morning News

 File — Box 3, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: February 27, 1966

Vietnam War, 1965 - 1970

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: 1965 - 1970

Vietnam War correspondence, 1965 - 1972

 File — Box 6, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

The Correspondence series is divided into periods, which are World War II, Vietnam, Chili, and family condolences. An exception to this is the Letters to Fowler, found in Writings-World War II, which includes hand-written and typed notes from various colleagues.

Dates: 1965 - 1972

“Wick Fowler’s Famous 2-alarm Chili” packaging, undated

 File — Box 5, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series:

The largest series, Chili, documents the chili cook-off in Terlingua, the Chili Appreciation Society International, and Wick Fowler’s 2-Alarm Chili product, and contains articles and clippings, a scrapbook, promotional materials, photographic materials, and artifacts. Note that the while the scrapbook largely contains Chili-related clippings, awards, posters, advertisements, and a draft by Fowler, it also contains articles by Fowler on World War II, the Vietnam War, crime, and boating.

Dates: undated

“Worksheets for original bibliography”

 Item — Box 11, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains the annotated bibliography manuscript “The Comic Imagination of Texas, 1836-2000: A Bibliography.” It also contains worksheets for the bibliography and a list compiled by Schultz of the book titles in his Texas humor collection. The bibliography was originally part of the manuscript but was removed to be its own freestanding work around 2002.

Dates: 1995-2002

Worksheets for original manuscript. Handwritten “Texas Laughter: Two Centuries of Texas Humor”

 Item — Box 9, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Manuscript, contains notes related to Schultz’s unpublished book, “Texas laughter: A Chronicle of Sixteen Humorists, 1836-2000.” It includes the original handwritten manuscript, revisions and drafts, drafts of a “postscript” that was not included in the final manuscript, and an incomplete index of the manuscript on note cards. Schultz completed his manuscript draft around 2000 when he first sent it to be reviewed for publication. This series also contains final revised...
Dates: 1995-2003

World War II, 1944-1945, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: 1944-1945, undated

World War II correspondence, 1944-1946, undated

 File — Box 6, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series:

The Correspondence series is divided into periods, which are World War II, Vietnam, Chili, and family condolences. An exception to this is the Letters to Fowler, found in Writings-World War II, which includes hand-written and typed notes from various colleagues.

Dates: 1944-1946, undated

Writings, 1944 - 1970

 Series
Series Description The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...
Dates: 1944 - 1970

Writings on Victoria, Texas, undated

 File — Box 2, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

Contains obituaries, newspaper articles on Fowler, and photographic materials.

Dates: undated