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Box 14

 Container

Staff Only

Contains 40 Results:

Research for 'Coin of Contraband': letters and government documents regarding a bracelet seized by customs from Countess Simone M. de Lapre; and photos of bracelet and Countess de Lapre, 1957-1963

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 1
Dates: 1957-1963
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Research for 'Coin of Contraband': photos of Al Scharff and miscellaneous unidentified

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 2
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Research for 'Coin of Contraband': photos of items seized by U.S. Customs and letter detailing items seized, 1961

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 3
Dates: 1961
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Research for 'Coin of Contraband': photos of items seized by U.S. Customs, and an article from 'The American Weekly' about diamond smuggling, 1949

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 4
Dates: 1949
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Letters and articles by and about Al Scharff, Houston Crime Commission, 1964

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 5
Dates: 1964
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Photographs: 'Coin of Contraband' autograph party, including photo of Roark and Al Scharff displaying an opium pipe, Houston, 1964; First Creative Arts Festival, Houston, 1947; Roark in unidentified photos from a play; and his daughter’s wedding photo

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 6
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Photographs from Al Scharff of himself and undercover operations from Arizona, California, and Mexico, 1910-1936

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 7
Dates: 1910-1936
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Book jackets: photo of jacket for 'Drill a Crooked Hole' and copy of jacket for 'Should the Wind Be Fair'

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 8
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Historical ideas and materials - research notes, photos and articles, mostly related to Texas and Caribbean history (handwritten, photocopies)

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Historical ideas and materials - news clippings and articles, mostly related to Texas history

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 10
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Governor Clements Committee membership cards, Clements’ inauguration invitation, poems (not authored by Roark), notes, and photo of the ship "Carthagenian", 1967, 1981-1987

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 11
Dates: 1967, 1981-1987
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

'Literary Guild Review' for 'Wings' and Little, Brown and Co. book catalog, 1946

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 12
Dates: 1946
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

'Chinquapin', volume 1, no.1, 1976

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 13
Dates: 1976
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

'The Humble Way' magazine, 1954

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 14
Dates: 1954
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Naylor Company, Southwest Book Publishers’ catalog, 1962

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 15
Dates: 1962
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Census records for 1900, tax receipts and minutes of Rock Spring Church meeting (photocopy), 1973; and Historical Association invitations, programs, miscellaneous poems, and brochures

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 16
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Cards, postcards and photos of landscapes and buildings, 1977

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Dates: 1977
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Program and certificates of completion for the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security (IAPES) Conference at SFASU, 1979

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 18
Dates: 1979
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Historical articles about the Old Stone Fort, James McSwill, newsletters, personal papers, and warranty deed, mostly belonging to Mrs. Roark

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 19
Dates: 1946-1988
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

Correspondence with publishers and agents re: 'Wake of the Golden Hind' (later renamed 'Wake of the Red Witch'); note by Mrs. Roark explaining how the book eventually got published; and copy of first advance royalty check from Little, Brown & Co., 1943-1944

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 20
Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Garland Roark Collection / Correspondence and 'Coin of Contraband'

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