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PERSONAL PAPERS, 1915-1943:
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A Guide to the Ernest H. Greene Papers, 1902-1952
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Greene, Ernest H. |
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Ernest H. Greene Papers |
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1902-1952 |
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Abstract |
Papers consist of personal and business records of Ernest H. Greene, who came to the United States in the early 1900's and became involved in several business ventures such as oil, lumber, and cattle. |
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7ft., 9 in. |
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Most materials are inEnglish; some correspondence in Spanish. |
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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin |
Born in England, Greene joined two brothers in the United States in 1893 to learn mining and ranching in Utah and Montana, obtaining citizenship in 1917. Based in New York City, Greene was involved in tungsten, silver, and gold mining, participated in a timber consortium in Mexico, and took part in oil exploration in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico prior to World War I and later in Texas and other states. He eventually settled in Medina County, Texas, where in 1924 he purchased 1,000 acres of pecan orchard lands on which at various times he grew pecans and other crops, and raised Brahman and dairy cattle and sheep. He was also involved in real estate and land management in Medina County and in the San Antonio area.
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Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, reports, maps, charts, printed materials, and photographs document the life of Ernest H. Greene. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence relating to his various business endeavors.
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Organization |
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Organized into two series:
- Business records.
- Personal papers. Alphabetical folder arrangement within subseries.
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Greene, Ernest Hardman, 1878-1967 |
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Hardwood industry--Mexico--History--20th century--Sources. |
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Land companies--Texas--Medina County--History--20th century-Sources. |
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Mines and mineral resources--United States--History--20th century--Sources. |
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Pecan industry--Texas--Medina County--History--20th century--Sources. |
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Petroleum mining--United States--History--Sources. |
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Ranches--Texas--Medina County--History--20th century--Sources. |
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Timber--Mexico--History--20th century--Sources. |
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Medina County (Tex.)--History--20th century--Sources. |
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Ernest H. Greene Papers, 1902-1952, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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Business Records |
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Ranch business, Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 1923-1941: |
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Accounting |
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Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Water Improvement and Irrigation Company |
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Bibliography |
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Brahman cattle |
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Clippings on ranch |
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Corn |
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Cotton |
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Crop leases |
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Crop loans |
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Dairy |
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Dates |
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Experimental planting |
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Fences |
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Fertilizer |
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Fire on #1 |
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Buck Freeman, lessor #5 |
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Grapes |
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Gidley |
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Hay, etc. |
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Hegera |
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Hired hands, miscellaneous |
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Hogs |
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House |
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Insurance |
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Intercom system |
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Inventories |
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Livestock, miscellaneous |
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Luling Foundation |
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Miscellaneous oil business (Texas) |
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Manager, Charley Brieden |
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Manager, Col. H. B. Farrar, Pecan-Sheep Company |
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Manager Newton Johnson |
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Mason, F. E., Lessor/Manager |
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Office |
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Onions |
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Orchard sales packet |
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Outbuildings |
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Pasture |
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Pesticides/fungicides |
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Poultry |
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Ranch operations, 1924-1934 |
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Ranch operations, 1935-1941 |
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Ranch sale |
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Roads |
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Roses |
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F. L. Salvagio |
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Sheep |
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Supplies |
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Truck crops |
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U. S. Farm Administration |
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Work applications |
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Pecan business, Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 1923-1929: |
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J. A. Burkett speech on pecans |
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Clippings |
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Correspondence, general |
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Equipment |
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Extension correspondence [Department of Agriculture] |
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General |
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Greene and Corbin syndicate |
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Helen H. Howe |
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Dean E. J. Kyle [Texas A&M] |
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Nursery |
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National Pecan Association |
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Other pecan lands |
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Pecan Grove Association |
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Pests and pesticides |
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Planting: |
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Planting and grafting |
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Evans-Gray Nursery |
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with letters regarding 10,000 Halbert buds 1925, |
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Replanting trees, 1927-1928 |
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Publications |
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Orchard prior to Greene purchase, Medina [County] |
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Report on orchard, (Kischuk) 1927 |
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Sales |
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Shelling |
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Texas Pecan Growers Association |
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Varieties |
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Workers, managers |
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Chart, E. E. Evans Citrus Fruit Orchard, Mercedes, Texas, shipping rates |
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Mexican Hardwoods Company, 1911-1937: |
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Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: |
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Francisca D. Davis/Catalina Hart materials |
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Wilbur Barker |
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Bocanchital, Veracruz |
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C. L. Chester |
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Chivela |
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Chart, "Serial Lumber Bonds," 1928? |
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Advertising circular, Mexican Isthmus Land Company, 1911 |
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Coahuila |
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C. M. Harvey |
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C. H. Knight |
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Myra Martin |
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Miscellaneous |
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Printed materials |
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C. W. Ramsey |
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Rancho Mecatal, Tamazula, Durango, Mexico |
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Real Estate Company of Mexico |
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Report on the Tutla and Serabia Tracts, 1935 |
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Map, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, undated |
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Two photographs of trees, undated |
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Rubber in Mexico |
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Timber, U. S. A. |
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Tampico Tribune clippings |
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Tropical Products Company |
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Promotional photograph album: "A Picture Story of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec - in Southern Mexico," undated |
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Oil business, Correspondence, financial records, legal documents and other materials: 1916-1941: |
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Ackerman |
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T. R. Battle |
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Big Lake Oil Company |
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C. L. Chester |
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Claims |
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H. C. Cockburn |
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Correspondence, miscellaneous |
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Cosden and Company |
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Cuban refinery |
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Darby-Lynde Company |
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Dielectroscope Syndicate |
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Equipment |
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Carl Dresser/Malta-McConnelsville Company |
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Financing |
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Flag Oil Company |
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S. L. Gale |
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E. O. Gilbert |
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Gilcrease Oil Company, G. B. Bancroft |
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Greene Petroleum |
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Hall and Piper |
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J. W. Hall |
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Hall/Piper/Sansome |
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C. J. Haskell |
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G. C. Hollister |
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Kansas: |
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Miscellaneous oil business |
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Douglas Company, 1918 |
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Lincoln County |
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Kentucky oil prospects |
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Lauderdale County, Mississippi |
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Lea County, New Mexico |
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Leases, miscellaneous |
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Manhattan Oil Company, 1918 |
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J. C. Maxwell |
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Mid-Continental Oil Company |
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Miscellaneous oil business: |
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Louisiana |
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Mexico |
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Mississippi |
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Miscellaneous oil business |
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Kay County, 1932 |
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Pottawatomie County, 1930 |
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Oil prospects |
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Reports on wells |
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Rodessa |
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Ed Salrin, Tidal Oil Company |
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South Central Drilling Company |
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C. R. Smith |
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Texas oil business: |
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Bee County |
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Brewster County |
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Caldwell County, J. W. Pierce lease |
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Crockett County, 1918 |
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Duval County |
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Goliad County |
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McMullen County |
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Medina County Drilling Company, John E. Neeley, 1933 |
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Parker County, 1918 |
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Shackelford County |
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Zapata County: |
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South Escobas Field |
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General |
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Zavala County |
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U. S. Department of Interior |
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Mining properties, Correspondence, reports, legal documents and other materials: 1902-1937: |
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Alpine, Texas, mercury |
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Bay Horse or Jack Claim, San Bernardino County, California, 1910 |
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Copete Mines, Sonora, Mexico |
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Walter Glasser, "Economic Method of Recovering Mercury from Ores" |
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Hamberg Claim, Clark Mining District, San Bernardino, California, 1908 |
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Kennecott Copper Corporation, 1930 |
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Lucia Mining Company, Durango, Mexico |
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Mining Prospects |
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Molusk Mine and Mill, Los Angeles, California, 1910 |
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Monterde Gold Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico |
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Montreal Rouyn Mines |
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Piano business, 1902 |
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Potash |
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Thumb Butte Gold Mining Company |
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United States Tungsten Mining and Products Company, 1910 |
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Medina County land business, Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 1924-1952: |
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Address lists |
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Land promotion letters, A - W |
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Flavia [Segnitz] Bjorkman |
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T. E. Boudinot |
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James T. Bowles |
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J. H. Bradford |
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Louis Cansler |
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J. M. Cavender |
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Harold Circuit |
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Vota Cochran |
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H. W. Corbin |
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C. L. Day |
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L. E. Devendorf |
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J. J. Dickenson |
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Charles Exarky |
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H. B. Farrar |
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R. N. Fitzpatrick |
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Felix Frazer |
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J. R. Gahan |
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Martin Gauldin |
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Col. William Gilbert |
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Ralph Gilpin |
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David Goodall |
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Ernest H. Greene/H. W. Corbin |
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Idalene Guertin |
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Charles A. Hane |
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John W. Harris |
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Frank Haskell |
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Jack Hettinger |
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J. M. Higdon |
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G. W. Hirsch |
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Thomas T. Hopper |
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Helen Harrington Howe |
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C. F. Hull |
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Walter S. Jenkins |
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Jim Jenkins |
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George C. Johnson |
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William Walker Kennedy |
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Leonard R. Leonard |
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Alice Fuller LeRoy |
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Alexander J. Lindsay |
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Louis W. Lipscomb |
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Raymond Lowes |
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William G. Magoffin |
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Walter B. Manny |
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W. R. Manny |
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Edward Markle |
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C. W. McNear |
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V. H. McNutt |
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Medina Irrigation Project |
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Medina Valley Irrigated Farms |
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F. M. Miller |
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MoPac [Missouri-Pacific] Railroad |
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C. E. Mitchell |
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George Murray |
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Lloyd Musselman |
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Charles Orchard |
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H. H. Padgett |
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Pecan-Sheep Company |
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Albert H. Peyton |
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H. A. Pressey |
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Theo Rivers |
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E. H. Salrin |
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San Antonio Suburban Irrigated Farms |
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San Antonio Papershell Pecan Company |
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Herbert R. Sargent |
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O. S. Schairer |
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M. E. Schmidt |
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[Mrs.] M. H. Segnitz |
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L. M. Shadbolt |
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C. F. Shallcross |
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E. B. Shawver |
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C. R. Sickels |
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W. M. Small/Marie J. Small |
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R. A. Smith |
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L. B. Springer |
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C. W. Stewart |
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Jack Summers |
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Fred Swenson |
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Telegrams |
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Arthur P. Thissel |
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Aurora Violland |
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Lillian E. Wilson |
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Fred Wise |
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D. K. Woodward |
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Three photographs of Hotel Wildacres, North Carolina, 1927 and undated |
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PERSONAL PAPERS, Correspondence and other materials: 1915-1943: |
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Automobile |
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Ada Bordman |
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C. M. Carrier |
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Champ Clark (Marguerite Greene's cousin) |
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Richard Colman |
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H. W. Corbin |
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Elizabeth Crockett, Secretary |
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Dentist |
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Doctor |
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Ralph Gilpin |
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Grand Isle [Vermont] |
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E. H. Greene biographical sketch |
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George C. Hollister |
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Thomas Hopper |
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Cleotilde Martinez, maid |
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Meyer Potter, Atascosa County, Texas |
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Miscellaneous |
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Charles E. Mitchell |
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W. B. Moore |
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Other land business, Long Island Park |
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Victor Ivan Ovenden |
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Politics |
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Prohibition |
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Hugh Robertson |
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Seventh New York National Guard |
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L. M. Shadbolt |
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C. R. Sickels |
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Walter Small |
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J. R. Smith |
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Sterling Sugar Refinery |
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Telegrams, 1937-1938 |
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Telephone log |
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Texas real estate |
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E. D. Thomas |
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Travel log |
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Trinchera Ranch |
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L. A. Turney |
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William M. Vogel |
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Wintergarden Land Development |
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R. M. Whitman |
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George Wright |
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