Thursday, September 5, 2013

Collections & Themes - Elaine Patton, 9/5/2013

Today I perused the Houston Area Digital Archives looking for items that could be showcased for the themes of football, weather (flooding, hurricanes), and the Houston Livestock Show. Football ended up with the most items, though the latter two each have about 15. I tried to search for specific names or places associated with either (e.g. the founder of the HLSR, J. W. Sartwelle), sadly without much luck. I did turn up a bunch of my old KHOU news footage reels, near and dear to my heart since last summer. I also tried searching through Google using the modifier site:digital.houstonlibrary.org, which helped me find a few more things.

Unrelated to anything above, I also noticed this ad in the scan of a 1940s newspaper (the Southwestern Times, I think-- I neglected to bookmark the exact file): This Thanksgiving, EAT OUT.

Allbritton's Cafeteria 1940s Thanksgiving ad

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