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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Correspondence

Financial Material

Legal Material

Literary Productions

Oral History

Photographs

Printed Material

Scrapbook Material

Westerners International

Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

T. Lindsay Baker:

An Inventory of His Papers, 1949-1990 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library



Descriptive Summary

CreatorBaker, T. (Thomas) Lindsay
Title:T. Lindsay Baker Papers,
Dates:1949-1990 and undated
Abstract:The papers of T. (Thomas) Lindsay Baker concerning Polish Americans and windmills.
Collection #S 62.1
Quantity: 11 boxes (11.0 linear feet)
LanguageEnglish.
Repository:Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

Biographical Sketch

T. (Thomas) Lindsay Baker received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at Texas Tech University. He conducted extensive work in both the history of technology and social and cultural history, and published several books in those areas. Baker also served as a curator at museums in Canyon, Fort Worth and Waco, Texas. The Westerners International is a foundation whose purpose is to encourage interest and research in frontier history. T. Lindsay served as president at one time.

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Scope and Contents

The collection includes professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts of The First Polish Americans, A Field Guide to American Windmills, and Silesians in Texas, some photographs and printed materials, scrapbook materials and files on the Westerners International and the Inner Ear Coffeehouse of Lubbock, Texas.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research

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Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.
Subjects (Persons)
Baker, T. (Thomas) Lindsay
Baker, T. (Thomas) Lindsay--Manuscripts
Subjects (Organizations)
Inner Ear Coffeehouse (Lubbock, Tex.)
Subjects
Authors--Texas
Historians--Texas
Manuscripts--Texas
Polish Americans
Polish Americans--Manuscripts
Windmills

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Related Material

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

  • T. Lindsay Baker Papers, 1960-1999 and undated
  • Windmill Trade Literature Collection, 1875-1992

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

T. Lindsay Baker Papers, 1949-1990 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Collection accession #(s):
87-0004-B, 92-0102-B

Gifts, 1987-1992

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 2000

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Correspondence

boxfolder
11"Thank You" letters and notes, 1948-1957
2"Thank You" letters and notes, 1958-1971
3Baker, Krystyna, 1968-1970 and undated
4Baker, Krystyna, 1970-1975 and undated
5Baker, Krystyna, Poland Trip, 1969-1970 and undated
6Baker, Shirley Mae, Pictures, 1979-1980 and undated
7Bates Award, 1980-1981
8Bates Award, 1982-1983
9Baylor University Employment, 1986-1987
10Cayman Islands National Museum, 1990 and undated
11Prize, Charles Frankel, 1989
12Employment, 1984-1987
13Employment Possibilities, 1986-1989
14Fehrenback Book Award, 1989-1990
15Bates Award, 1981-1982
16Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Incoming, Pictures, 1987-1989 and undated
17Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Outgoing, 1987-1989 and undated
18Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Outgoing, 1987-1989 and undated
boxfolder
21Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Outgoing, 1987-1989 and undated
2Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Report, 1989
3Jeane, 1978-1979
4Kaegi Family Visit, 1978-1979 and undated
5Kosciuszko Foundation, 1972-1976 and undated
6Moore, Bill, 1986-1987 and undated
7Personal: Incoming, 1980 and undated
8Personal: Incoming, 1981 and undated
9Personal: Incoming, 1982 and undated
10Personal: Incoming, 1983-1984 and undated
11Personal, 1961-1969
12Personal, 1970-1977 and undated
13Personal, 1978 and undated
14Personal, 1979 and undated
15Personal, 1983 and undated
16Personal, 1984 and undated
boxfolder
31Personal, 1986 and undated
2Personal, 1987 and undated
3Personal, 1988 and undated
4Personal, 1990 and undated
5Personal, Foreign 1966-1969 and undated
6Polish Inquiry, 1970-1974
7Professional, Outgoing, 1973
8Polish Migration to Texas, 1973-1974 and undated
9Professional: Incoming, 1969
10Professional: Outgoing, 1970
11Professional: Incoming, 1971
12Professional: Outgoing, 1971
13Professional: Outgoing, 1972
14Professional: Incoming, 1973
15Professional: Outgoing, 1974
16Professional: Outgoing, 1975
17Professional: Incoming, 1976
18Professional: Incoming, 1977
19Professional: Incoming, 1975 and undated
20Personal, 1985 and undated
21Personal, 1986-1987 and undated
22Professional: Incoming, 1974
23Professional: Outgoing, 1977
24Professional: Incoming, 1978 and undated
boxfolder
41Professional: Outgoing, 1978
2Professional: Incoming, 1979
3Professional: Outgoing, 1979
4Professional: Incoming, 1980 and undated
5Professional: Outgoing, 1980 and undated
6Professional: Incoming, 1981 and undated
7Professional: Outgoing, 1981
8Professional: Incoming, 1982
9Professional: Incoming, 1983 and undated
10Professional: Outgoing, 1983 and undated
11Professional: Incoming, 1984 and undated
12Professional: Outgoing, 1983 and undated
13Professional: Outgoing, 1984
14Professional: Incoming, 1985 and undated
boxfolder
51Professional: Outgoing, 1985
2Professional: Incoming, 1986
3Professional: Outgoing, 1986
4Professional: Incoming, 1987 and undated
5Professional: Outgoing, 1987
6Professional: Incoming, 1987
7Professional: Outgoing, 1988
8Professional: Outgoing, 1989
9Professional: Incoming, 1990
10Professional: Outgoing, 1990
11Rio Vista, Texas, Incoming, 1988-1989
12Rio Vista, Texas, Outgoing, 1988-1989
boxfolder
61Sall, Louise, 1978-1986
2Scout Trip, 1968
3Sheffield, Annet, 1986-1987 and undated
4Strecker Museum, Baylor University, 1988-1989
5Texas Association of Museums, 1989
6Texas Historical Commission Annual Historic Preservation Conference, 1989
7Williams, Etelka and Braxton B., 1973-1983 and undated
8Windmillers' Gazette, 1982
9Windmillers' Gazette, 1982
10Windmillers' Gazette, 1982
11Windmillers' Gazette, 1982
12Windmillers' Gazette, 1982
13Windmillers' Gazette, 1982-1983
14Windmillers' Gazette, 1982-1983
15Windmillers' Gazette, 1983
16Windmillers' Gazette, February 1983
17Windmillers' Gazette, March 1983
18Windmillers' Gazette, April 1983
19Windmillers' Gazette, May-July 1983
20Windmillers' Gazette, July-August 1983
21Windmillers' Gazette, August-September 1983
22Windmillers' Gazette, October 1983
23Windmillers' Gazette, October-December 1983
24Windmillers' Gazette, January 1984
25Windmillers' Gazette, February 1984
26Windmillers' Gazette, March 1984
27Windmillers' Gazette, April-May 1984
28Windmillers' Gazette, June-July 1984
29Windmillers' Gazette, August-September 1984
30Windmillers' Gazette, October-December 1984
31Windmillers' Gazette, January-February 1984
32Windmillers' Gazette, February-December 1984
33Windmillers' Gazette, January 1985
34Windmillers' Gazette, February 1985
35Windmillers' Gazette, March-April 1985
36Windmillers' Gazette, May-June 1985
37Windmillers' Gazette, July-August 1985
38Windmillers' Gazette, September-October 1985
39Windmillers' Gazette, November-December 1985
boxfolder
71Windmillers' Gazette, January-February 1986
2Windmillers' Gazette, March-April 1986
3Windmillers' Gazette, May-June 1986
4Windmillers' Gazette, July-August 1986
5Windmillers' Gazette, September-October 1986
6Windmillers' Gazette, November-December 1986
7Windmillers' Gazette, January-October 1987
8Windmillers' Gazette, January-February 1987
9Windmillers' Gazette, March-June 1987
10Windmillers' Gazette, July-September 1987
11Windmillers' Gazette, October-December 1987
12Windmillers' Gazette, January-August 1988
13Windmillers' Gazette, January-March 1988
14Windmillers' Gazette, April-July 1988
15Windmillers' Gazette, July-August 1988
16Windmillers' Gazette, October-December 1988
17Windmillers' Gazette, January-February 1989
18Windmillers' Gazette, March-May 1989
19Windmillers' Gazette, June-August 1989
20Windmillers' Gazette, September-November 1989
21Windmillers' Gazette, December 1989
22Windmillers' Gazette, January 1990
23Windmillers' Gazette, February-March 1990
24Windmillers' Gazette, April-June 1990
25Windmillers' Gazette, July-September 1990
26Windmillers' Gazette, October-December 1990

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Financial Material

boxfolder
81Bank Statements, 1973
2Bank Statements, 1974
3Bank Statements, 1975
4Bank Statements, 1973-1979
5Bank Statements, 1979-1980
6Bank Statements, 1981
7Bank Statements, 1982
8Bank Statements, 1982-1983
9Bank Statements, 1983
10Bank Statements, 1985-1986
11Deposit and Checkbook Records, 1977-1982 and undated
12Gas Receipts, 1977
13Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Pay Records, 1979-1987
14Student Budget Record, 1967-1972

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Legal Material

boxfolder
815Address Book, undated
16Automobile Collision, 1985-1987
17Baker, Thomas Lindsay, Vitae, 1975-1986 and undated
18Divorce Documents, 1981
19Griggs, William C., Resume, 1979
20Insurance Papers, 1980-1987
21Baker, Krystyna, Vitae, 1975-1979 and undated
22T. Lindsay Baker's Employment Records and Miscellaneous, 1972-1987 and undated
23T. Lindsay Baker's Employment Records, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, 1980-1984 and undated
24Loan contracts, 1980-1983
25Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Minutes, 1986
26Resignation Letter, 1987
27Stolen Property Inventory List, 1972

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Literary Productions

boxfolder
828"Autobiography, A Very Personal," undated
29"The Building of the Trans-Siberian Railway" by Baker, Thomas Lindsay, 1969
30Chicago Genealogist “The Kiolbassa Family of Illinois and Texas,” Spring 1973
31"The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement", Book Review by Baker, Thomas Lindsay, undated
32"Comancheria Demography: 1805-1830" by Brown, William R., undated
33Datebooks, 1970-1990
boxfolder
91Datebooks, 1970-1990
2Datebooks, 1970-1990
3"First Polish Americans" TS Early Draft, undated
4“First Polish Americans” Original TS, undated undated
boxfolder
101“First Polish Americans” Index, undated
2"A Field Guide to American Windmills" Research Notes, 1977-1979
3"A Field Guide to American Windmills", Research Notes, 1977-1979
4Four Letters from Texas to Poland in 1855, undated
5“Fulbrighting in Poland: Two Years Stay in Wroclaw," by T. Lindsay Baker, 1978
6“Howard Paul Becker: Historian of Sociology,” Fall 1974
7“My Chief Pleasure has Been in Telling Tales...” History Class 5313, 1975
8"The Original Driskill Hotel Story" by Austin Statesman, undated
9“Pre-historian Indian Water Supply Systems, undated
10"The Red River War of 1874-1875: Selected Correspondence Between Lieutenant Frank Baldwin and His Wife, Alice", Author Unknown, 1988
11"The Remarkable Cast Iron of the Galveston Waterworks" by Baker, Thomas Lindsay, 1974
12Research Material: Fairbury Pipe and Supply Company, 1977
13"Silesians in Texas: A History of the Oldest Polish Colonies in America" by Baker, Thomas Lindsay, 1976
14"Silesians in Texas by T. Lindsay Baker, 1976
boxfolder
111The United States in 1933: As Seen Through the Pages of Time Magazines, March 31, 1969
2WCZESNA Historia Osady Panna Maria W TEKSASIE, 1978
3Z ZYCIA Slaskich Emigrantow W Teksasie, 1977

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Oral History

boxfolder
114"Ghost Towns of Texas", 1986
5Interview with Krystyna and Thomas Lindsay Baker, 1970

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Photographs

boxfolder
116Baker, Krystyna 1968-1970
7Family and Friends, 1949-1987 and undated
8Inspections, 1981
9Sall, Louise 1985 and undated
10Snyder, Texas, undated
11Vacation Trip, undated

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Printed Material

boxfolder
1112Canyon Chronicles, by Thomas Lindsay Baker, Karl Sall, and Louise Sall, 1985
13Cleburne Times-Review newspaper, 1969
14Foreign Newspapers, 1970
15London Dialing Instructions Booklet, 1966
16News clippings, 1970-1975 and undated
17New York Arts Journal, 1980
18Poles in New York Photography Project, 1985
19Rare America, undated
20Texas Barbed Wire Collectors Association: "The Barb-Arian," 1968-1971

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Scrapbook Material

boxfolder
1121Bronze Age Stone Artifacts, undated
22Clothing Tags, undated
23"Going Away,"Cards, 1989
24"Inner Ear" Coffeehouse Lubbock, Texas, 1971
25"Inner Ear" Ecumenical Coffeehouse Brochure, 1970
26Invitations and Program, 1977 and undated
27Memorial Bulletin, 1981
28Miscellaneous, 1963-1988 and undated
29Negatives, 1977
30Poland Trip, 1968-1970 and undated
31Prospectus and VEDA for T. Lindsay Baker, undated
32Sodhouse Visit, Children's Letters, 1980
33Soviet Cosmonaut's Visit, 1988
34Vietnam War Protest Material, 1969-1970 and undated
35Wedding Cards, 1970

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Westerners International

boxfolder
1136Arizona Roundup, 1989
37Board Meetings, 1989-1990
38Green, Donald 1989
39Fort Worth Corral, 1986
40General Correspondence, 1986-1990
41"In the Home Stretch",; undated
42Membership, 1988-1989
43Members List, 1989
44Newsletters, 1987-1989 and undated
45Regional Vice Presidents, 1987-1989 and undated
46The Westerners Brand Book, 1982-1986
47Western History Association Meetings, 1989-1990 and undated

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