Brief in Behalf of Abilene, Texas to the Honorable Committee to Locate the Texas Technological College.
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-08-31T15:20:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-08-31T15:20:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1923 | |
| dc.description | 33 page proposal submitted by the Committee for the Abilene Chamber of Commerce to the Locating Board for Texas Technological College. The 34 page bound photograph book contains seventeen 8 x 10 black and white photographs that are interleaved with pages containing captions for each photograph. The cover is titled "Photographic Views of Abilene Texas" and the images are of: Lake Abilene; the Central Power Station; a view of Butternut and Hickory Street, and Sayles Boulevard; the U.S. Weather Observatory; the West Texas Baptist Sanitarium; the First Christian Church; the First Baptist Church; the Carnegie Public Library; the Abilene Country Club; and various attractive homes in Abilene. Separate from these two bound items are 7 loose maps displaying transportation lines, proposed lots to be used for the new college, population, and geological formations. | |
| dc.description | Cite as: Texas Technological College Locating Board Records, 1923 and 1938, Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | The original proposal is a 33 pages plus a front and back cover, measuring 6 x 10. The photograph book measures 8 x 10. The maps measure 14 ½ x 16 (5 items), 35 x 33 ½ (1 item), and 15 ½ x 12 (1 item). | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10605/540 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Digitized by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. | |
| dc.rights | The digital images and files in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these digital files in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Abilene (Tex.) | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Abilene (Tex.)--History. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Abilene (Tex.)--Economic conditions. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Abilene (Tex.)--Buildings, structures, etc. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Agriculture--Texas--Abilene. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Texas Technological College Locating Board. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Texas Technological College--History. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Texas Technological College--Planning. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Universities and colleges--Texas--History. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Educational buildings--Texas--Photographs. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Dwellings--Texas--Photographs. | |
| dc.title | Brief in Behalf of Abilene, Texas to the Honorable Committee to Locate the Texas Technological College. | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |