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A1993-005.0179 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mildred F. Harrell talks about moving to Bishop; schools; teachers; Pancho Villa; hurricanes; roads; railroad specials to the town; real estate men; F.Z. Bishop; the Depression; crops; mules; Mexican labor; churches; voice theater; carnivals; politics; prohibition; Germans; Floods; labor; mosquitoes; sewage and electictric city; Bishop's family; lake. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0180 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Ida Wimsett, conducted by Melvin L. Shelton. Born in Mexia, Texas, Ms. Wimsett was a housewife married to a veterinarian. She discusses her arrival in Bishop; the park; the hurricane; farming; the Depression; Celanese; the Bishop family; jail burning, German feelings, the Ku Klux Klan; cars & roads; Mother Lane; churches; her husbands practice; Saturday nights; the cemetery; stories about Latin child buried in coffin above the ground. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0181 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Lillion Luehrs talks about the founder of the community, Mr. F.Z. Bishop; drought; hurricanes; hailstorm; Ku Klux Klan; black citizen burned in Jail; her childhood; carnivals; roads; Depression; faith healer, Mother Lane; Lord Halifax; churches; shools; and business. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0182 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ramon N. Garcia talks about the Great Depression; his father's grocery business; the road conditions in Bishop; segregation in Bishop; "Norifica" in conjunction with the Ku Klux Klan activities; schools in Bishop; Mother Lane's activities; entertainment; the Negro School in Concordia; Germans; Mexicans; and his father's business, including a grocery store.
A1993-005.0184 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Benavides, TX., Maria Tamez talks about the first houses in Bishop; discrimination; schools, depression, field workers; Mr. F.Z. Bishop; the 1916 Hurricane; hail storm; churches; bank robbery; Prohibition; the Ku Klux Klan; first doctors and Mother Lane.
A1993-005.0185 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with J.S. Harlan Sr. from Bishop, TX.
A1993-005.0186 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Amarillo, Texas, Rev. Val L. Sherman was a Methodist minister. He talks about his early ministry riding the old circuit system between Flowlerton and Los Angeles (TX) near Cotulla and in LaSalle County in 1924. Talks about Ku Klux Klan, segregation in the church; foods available; wages of a minister; his move to Boerne, a German community; the Depression; World War II in the Robstown, Petronilla, Agua Dulce and Banquete areas; and Grace Church, Calallen & Christ Church, Kingsville.
A1993-005.0187 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A mechanic and store keeper he talks about schools in general; the means of transportation; farming, weather extemes, politics; his daily work schedule; preachers, doctors & medicine; ghost storeis, superstitions; and festivals in 1912.
A1993-005.0188 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	entitled: "The Camp Ezell Memoirs"
A1993-005.0189 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. Hayden McClung.
A1993-005.0191 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Jack Welhausen talks about his early childhood; about his time as a Texas Ranger in Las Ojelas; bandits at Norias & Yaqui Indians; his time in high school, college; the Depression; camps for Depression victims; World War I & II; politics; schools; farming, stores, banking; television & radio; merchandise; racial feelings and doctors.
A1993-005.0192 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interviewed with Hermania Mussman they talk about her parents and coming from Germany. They tell about farming methods; schools they attended and about medicine and home remedies.
A1993-005.0192 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interviewed with Ray Mussman they talk about her parents and coming from Germany. They tell about farming methods; schools they attended and about medicine and home remedies.
A1993-005.0193 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Charles Flato III gives extensive recollections on the building of Texas A&I. Talks some about railroads, and how it dominated the local economy. Mentions the establishment of Naval Air Station. Coming of Navy caused rapid growth of community.
A1993-005.0194 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Horace Moos gives some history of Palito Blanco from 1890 to 1912. cattle raising, living conditions, 1916 drought, income tax, 1913; Depression; San Diego plot of 1915; treatment of Mexicans in Alice; public schools, fur trapping. First passenger car in Palito Blanco. His family has been on the Moos Ranch for the last 130 years.
A1993-005.0195 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	William Kerr tells about his early life in Tenn.; about his schooling; reserve training; the border defense; and World War I tales about over seas.
A1993-005.0196 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Glenn B. Moncrief talks about Beeville in 1909 including his friends and the places he lived. He was in the honey bee business and tells about it. He tells about schools, churches and the highway.
A1993-005.0197 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. Sue T. Dreiers talks about her life in general in Texas during the early 1900s.
A1993-005.0198 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Roy Elmore, local photographer, talks about the development of Kingsville since 1904. Includes general talk about his own history and business and the growth of Kingsville and the railroad throughout the Rio Grande Valley.
A1993-005.0199 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Eugene W. Richter gives his background and life as a farmer.
A1993-005.0200 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. Frank C. McCarthy worked in Kingsville from 1926 off and on and during Depression. He came from Houston as a fireman and became a steam engine engineer, later a diesel. Worked in Kingsville permanently from 1952 to 1962 when he retired.
A1993-005.0201 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Marshall, TX. he talks about her family background; Indian raids; missions, industry; his books; the reasons that people came here; the law; Roosevelt and the Depression
A1993-005.0202 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Guadalupe County, TX., Jerdy Thomas was a concrete finisher. He tells about his life as a watermelon farmer in San Marcus; an oil field worker from 1930-31; hauling shells; construction of highways and Madagala Island.
A1993-005.0203 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Attelia Muller talks about schools and life in Commerce, Texas including communications, farming, industries and racial feelings.
A1993-005.0204 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Braney Farley tells about arriving in Port Aransas in 1910 where his father was a lighthouse builder and fisherman. He talks about the fishing business; early transportation to the island; the docks and conditions; growth of Port A. and the ferry system. Talks about FDR, when he met the family.
A1993-005.0205 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. James Kirkpatrick tells about life in Beeville, 1915; about the border during that time; about the Hurricane of 1919; and immigrants and the Depression.
A1993-005.0206 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Marie Townsend Marburger talks about her grandparents arriving in Texas; the early houses, cars, wagons and trains in the area. She tells about her schooling; the transportation system of San Antonio, the use of prison labor; the arrival of Buffalo Bill & the first Indians; Pancho Villa; racial problems; the "Yankee-Confederate" problems in the family; churches, revivals & politcal rallies.
A1993-005.0207 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Rosalind Speer talks about the Texas Gulf Coast Co.; Skidmore, TX; people she knew; old buildings in area; J.T. Canales, a Brownsville lawyer & judge; and a dipping vat near her home that was used by the entire county.
A1993-005.0209 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	John Cooke, a retired educational administrator, talks about early life before being in education; and then talks about his work in education mentioning Petronila, Banquete, and Robstown.
A1993-005.0210 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Joe Garza tells about conditions in Rockport, 1903-1908; the school system there; the pain of segregated schools and discrimination; the fact that he had to teach other children when he was in high school; and the formation of LULAC. He tells about early LULAC history, which was founded by his brother, Ben Garza.
A1993-005.0211 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A retired teacher tells about the 12 week summer course in Illinois that allowed her to get her teaching certificate. Then she describes her early teaching, and return to college. She taught at Austin schools; in Victoria and went to Alice in 1939. She tells about some Chicano experiences.
A1993-005.0212 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	He talks about life in the Eagle Pass area; education, farming, communications, smuggling, climate, disease.
A1993-005.0213 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	In two cassette tapes, Lucinda Schuietz talks about the Crucial Years in Education and Politics in Brooks County.
A1993-005.0214 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Melvin Miller.
A1993-005.0215 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: None	Interview with Florence Price.
A1993-005.0216 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Richard Fernandez, interviewed with P.J. Viver, W.H. Morton & Thurmon Kinder. They talk about mail delivery in Brownsville in 1890s; the Great Train Robbbery sometime between 1887-90; the killing of Tom Kennedy; and the killing of Sheriff Brito. He tells his version of the railroad to Brownsville, 1904; the killing of Austin & son; and stories about the Texas Rangers. He tells about the Battle of Matamoros, 1903; & some stories about Pancho Villa.
A1993-005.0217 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Arnold S. Griffin talks about his great grandfather coming to Texas from Indiana in 1839; moving from Mormon Camp at Bandera to Medina County in 1871; building a house and grubbing land with Mexican immigrants; how women washed clothes; the types of irons they had; the killing and curing of beef; the winter hog killing time and grinding corn meal.
A1993-005.0218 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Salign County, Ark., Foy M. White worked for a construction Co. He talks about the "Oil Industry & His Life During the Depression and to Date." He talks about his life during the Depression; work in the oil industry in Sinton and the area around it in 1935; young people and scholarships; farming in the Sinton area; his work schedule, wages, food prices, roads, and the ecology and the oil industry.
A1993-005.0219 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in La Calberas, Maria Valadez she talks about the Valadez family history and a ranch near Ben Bolt. She is Mrs. Jose Maria Valadez.
A1993-005.0220 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Vitalia Garcia talks about the Galloway drillers who had an oil gusher on the property.