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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Organization

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Literary Production

Photographs

Scrapbook Material

Research Files

Printed Material

Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

Don Woodard:

An Inventory of His Papers, 1903-1999 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library



Descriptive Summary

CreatorWoodard, Don
Title:Don Woodard Papers,
Dates:1903-1999 and undated
Abstract:These are the papers of writer and businessman, Don Woodard.
Collection #S1617.1
Quantity:3 boxes (3.0 linear feet)
LanguageEnglish.
Repository:Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

Biographical Sketch

Don Woodard a resident of Fort Worth, Texas and president of Woodard Insurance was an employee of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company for a decade beginning in 1952. He worked as a landman until the company was sold in 1963 to Seagrams. He researched the history of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company for his book, Black Diamonds! Black Gold!, published in 1998 by Texas Tech University Press. He helped found Fort Worth's Petroleum Club.

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Scope and Contents

Collection of mostly research materials used by Don Woodard for his book Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: Saga of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company. They include comments on draft copies of his chapters, illustrations and photographs used in the book, research files on the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, Thurber, Texas, H. B. Fuqua, index files from A-Z, and TP Voice and TP Panorama magazines.

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Organization

The collection is organized into the following series: Literary Production, Photographs, Research Files, and Printed Material.

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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)
Woodard, Don
Woodard, Don- --Archives
Woodard, Don- --Manuscripts
Subjects
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company--History
Coal trade--Texas--Fort Worth--History
Coal mines and mining--Texas--Fort Worth--History
Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--Fort Worth--History
Business people--Texas--Fort Worth--Biography

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Related Material

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

  • Don Woodard Oversized Materials (O8.5 and O19.A)
  • Texas and Pacific Coal Company (Thurber, Texas) Records, 1887-1969 and undated
  • Texas and Pacific Coal Company (Thurber, Texas) Records, 1889-1979 and undated
  • Thurber, Texas Collection, 1897-1986 and undated
  • Thurber, Texas Photo Collection, 1889-1940 (SWCPC 209)
  • William Whipple Johnson Papers, 1855-1908

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Don Woodard Papers, 1903-1999 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Collection accession #(s):
2000-0143-B, 2000-0275-B

Gifts, 2000

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, October 2002

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Collection Inventory

 

Literary Production

boxfolder
11“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Chapter I and II comments, 1996-1997
2“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Chapter I illustrations and sources, undated
3“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Chapter II illustrations and photos, undated
4“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Chapter 6 and 7 comments and resources, 1910-1995
5“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Chapter comments and sources, 1932-1997
6“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Notes on photographs for Book, undated
7“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Log Folder for Illustrations, 1937-1997
8“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Illustrations used, undated
9“Black Diamonds, Black Gold” Unused Illustrations for Book, undated

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Photographs

boxfolder
110H. B. Fuqua and Company, 1903-1980s

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Scrapbook Material

boxfolder
111Miscellaneous, 1998 and undated

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Research Files

boxfolder
112East Texas Tract Ownership, 1993
13Fort Worth Convention Center, 1969
14Fuqua, H. B., 1978-1992
15Galveston, Texas Seawall, 1997
16Illustrations for Book, undated
17Keystone Field, 1942-1955
18Robbins, Reg, sources, 1929
19Texas Pacific, Blank Cash Statement Forms, undated
20Texas Pacific, Contracts and Letters, Fuqua Files, 1948-1992
21Texas Pacific Financial Records, 1963
22Texas Pacific Final Minutes, 1965
23Texas Pacific Legal Closure Document, 1964
24Texas Pacific Organization Charts, 1993
25Texas Pacific, Sale-off Documents to Seagram, 1963
26Texas Pacific sources, 1933-1997
27Texas Pacific and Thurber, Texas, 1963-1989
28Thurber Pipe Line Company Stockholders’ and Directors’ Meeting Minutes, 1922-1923
29Thurber, Texas and Oil, 1918-1996
boxfolder
21Directors of Texas Pacific (TP), 1998
2Library Moody with Sources, 1919-1997
3Index, A-B, 1993-1999
4Index, C-Fr, 1963-1998
5Index, Fu-G, 1918-1999
6Index, H-J, 1939-1996
7Index, K-Mas, 1993-1997
8Index, Mau-O, 1990-1997
9Index, P, 1929-1996
10Index, R-Sol, 1991-1997
11Index, Sp-Tel, 1933-1996
12Index, Texas Pacific, 1954-1989
13Index, Texas-V, 1918-1998
14Index, W-Z, 1949-1997

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Printed Material

boxfolder
31Distillers Corporation/Seagrams Limited Annual Report, 1967
2Seagram article in Texas Parade, 1968
3Sun Texas Voice, 1980-1981
4Texas Pacific Memo to Shareholders, 1959-1961
5Texas Pacific Annual Report to Shareholders, 1956-1962
6TP Panorama, 1954-1957
7TP Panorama, 1958-1963
8TP Voice, 1964-1969
9TP Voice, 1970-1974
10TP Voice, 1975-1980

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