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Box 1: Museum CollectionsBox 2: Dog Trots and Mud Cats Exhibit Preparation Material, circa 1976Box 3: Exhibit Preparation MaterialsBox 4: Oversized PhotographsBox 5: Posters

• Box 1: Museum Collections Request Reading Room Access

  This box also contains Ranching and Museum brochure proofs, University Prints from the Historical Collection, and Public Affair Awards.
  Barcode: 652019
  Location: Located in Archives Room at Annex.

• Box 2: Dog Trots and Mud Cats Exhibit Preparation Material, circa 1976 Request Reading Room Access

  The material in this box was used in the preparation of a traveling exhibit on the history of log cabins. The exhibit drew on the research of Dr. Terry Jordan  and the book Dog Trots and Mud Cats by Linda Lavender and Cirrus Bonneau.
  Barcode: 642744

  • Folder 1: Negatives Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Also includes negatives related to the corresponding log-cabin book published by Linda Lavender and Cirrus Bonneau, as well as corresponding exposure notes for those negatives. Some are labeled as to where they are published in the book, while others are unidentified as being specifically located and/or used.

  • Folder 2: Prints Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Prints of advertisements that use log cabins to sell a product, sell log cabin furniture, or provide instruction on how to build a log cabin.

  • Folder 3: Map Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    A map showing the "Distribution of Log Construction, Eastern Half of Anglo-America."

  • Folder 4: Print Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    An image of the John Neely Bryan log cabin in downtown Dallas.

  • Folder 5: Labels Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Two text labels for the exhibit printed with black letters on clear plastic.

  • Item 6: Three ring binder Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Item 1: Exhibit Panel Plans Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Four pages of notebook paper with the outline of the exhibit panel plans with titles and lists of images to be used.

    • Folder 2: Photo Murals Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      A folder with information on photography credits for panels 2,3, 11, and 16; "The Color Lab, Inc., Price List 1978;" and an image of the door of a log cabin.

    • Folder 3: Panel 1 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Panel 1: Introduction and Credits"

    • Folder 4: Panel 3: What is a Log House Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 5: Panel 4: Where Did They Come From? Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 6: Panel 6: Gone To Texas Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 7: Panel 7: Give My Love to Sister Amanda Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 8: Panel 8: Myths and Romanticism Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 9: Panel 9: Making the Myth Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 10: Panel 10: Sawn Lumber Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 11: Panel 11: Depression Houses Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 12: Panels 13 and 14: Remodeling and Restoration Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 13: Panel 15: Contemporary Construction "Pre-Fabs" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 14: Panel 14: Open to the Public Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 15: Color Work Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      This folder contains information on screen printing, a copy of the brochure for the exhibit, lists, copies, and examples of log cabin art and advertising.

    • Folder 16: Doye Homestead - Maxwell Family Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Item 17: Binder Contents Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      The binder has diagrams, measurements, text, lists of items needed, research notes, photographic prints, budget information, and drawings for each panel.

• Box 3: Exhibit Preparation Materials Request Reading Room Access

  Barcode: 708139

  • Folder 1: “Our Cabin” Picture Clipping Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This picture has a key next to it that explains what each part of the Cabin is called.  In addition to the key, this picture also has a small description sheet taped to the back of it.

  • Folder 2: Log Cabin Notch Documents Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains documents that provide brief explanations for the “V” notch and the Saddle (or round) notch as well as the Half Dove-Tail and the Square (or quarter) notch as they are used in log cabins.

  • Folder 3: Laminated Projection Sheet Clippings Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains clippings that provide brief explanations of dogtrot floor plans, the mud cat chimney’s used in the East Texas areas, and of the typical notches used in Texas cabins.

  • Folder 4: Exhibit Panel Notes Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains notes about the exhibit panels and their order as well as suggested tools or items to be exhibited with them.

  • Folder 5: Foundations – Panel 3 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains a negative of the “Our Cabin” picture clipping with a paper sleeve, papers with printed line drawings of cabin corners/notches, and 13 actual photographs of cabin corners/notches with numbers written in pencil on the backs of some of them.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 6: The Long Road West – Panel 4 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains two photographs: one is of a man with tools in his hands with a “70” written in pencil on the back of it while the other is of a document (or possibly a journal entry) with a “74” written in pencil on the back of it.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 7: Gone To Texas – Panel 5 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains photographs of pictures and prints.
    Note: A large print/ picture of man in a suit staring at a sign with “G.T.T.” nailed to a door has been separated from this folder and placed within Box 4: Oversized Photographs.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 8: Log Cabin Candidate – Panel 8 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains a negative with a paper sleeve and photographs of artifacts and prints.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 9: Marketing the Myth – Panel 9 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains a label for “G.E. Henderson’s Original Old Style Old Log Cabin Fine Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey” and photographs of prints and log cabins.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 10: Saw Lumber – Panel 10 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains photographs of log cabins and even one of “lumbering trains and crew in a forest in eastern Texas”
    Note: 2 large photographs focused on an exposed exterior corner of a log cabin with wooden sideboard paneling (and a window air conditioning unit) have been separated from this folder and placed within Box 4: Oversized Photographs.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 11: The Great Depression – Panel 11 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains photographs of log cabins.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 12: Photomural – Panel 12 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains photographs of an elderly man and woman standing in front of what appears to be a log cabin entryway.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 13: Use, Reuse, and Abuse – Panel 13 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains photographs of the interior and exterior of log cabins.
    Note: A large photograph of a log cabin with a covered porch that appears to be leaning to the side and a “Keep Out” sign above its door has been separated from this folder and placed within Box 4: Oversized Photographs.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 14: Open to the Public – Panel 14 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains photographs of log cabins as well as a couple of a woman sitting on the porch of a log cabin.
    Note: A large photograph of a white log cabin with a dog trot has been separated from this folder and placed within Box 4: Oversized Photographs.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 15: A Brand New Very Old Idea – Panel 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains documents advertising log cabins and photographs of log cabin businesses.
    Note: A large photograph of a log cabin exterior corner with a small wooden ladder (or some type of wooden frame) has been separated from this folder and placed within Box 4: Oversized Photographs.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 16: Photomural  – Panel 16 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains a photograph of a log cabin with a dead tree (or dry wood) in front of it.
    Note: This was a pre-compiled folder.

  • Folder 17: Photographs of Log Cabin Glass Bottles Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos
    Note: One glass bottle is positioned to show the text, “Old Cabin Bitters,” on its ‘roof’ below the bottles neck.

  • Folder 18: Das Peach Haus Correspondence, 12-08-1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This is a letter from Mark Wieser of Das Peach Haus to Linda Lavender, Curator of Collection for the NTSU Historical Collection.  It contains information about a log cabin and approval for it to be used in research.

  • Folder 19: B. Carroll Tharp Correspondence, 12-06-1978 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains a letter from B. Carroll Tharp of Koetter Tharp Cowell & Bartletta to Linda Lavender of the NTSU Historical Collection bout a request for “three copies of the AIA Cedar Shingle Institute Award.”

  • Folder 20: Whiskey Labels Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains labels for “G.E. Henderson’s Original Old Style Old Log Cabin Fine Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey” from the National Distillers Products Company to Gretchen Niendorff.

  • Folder 21: Historical Collection Prints, 1-26-1983 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    This contains black and white prints and negatives, from the Historical Collection, of people, log cabins, and covers of songbooks.

  • Folder 22: Tin Roof Log Cabins Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 23: Log Cabin Porches Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 24: Log Cabin with Garden Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 25: Log Cabin with Wagon Frame Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 4 Photos

  • Folder 26: Log Cabin Porch with Covered Firewood Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 6 Photos

  • Folder 27: Exterior Log Cabin Corner with Work Gloves and Rope Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 4 Photos

  • Folder 28: Log Cabin with Family in Front of it Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 29: Log Cabin with Wired Fence Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 30: “The Farmer of North Bend” Song Cover Page Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 31: “The Hard Cider Quick Step” Song Cover Page Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 3 Photos

  • Folder 32: “The Log House” Song Cover Page Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 3 Photos

  • Folder 33: Log Cabin in the Woods Scene Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 4 Photos

  • Folder 34: Different Log Cabins Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 5 Photos

  • Folder 35: Log Cabin with Damaged Roof-siding Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 2 Photos

  • Folder 36: Log Cabin in the Tree Shades Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 4 Photos

  • Folder 37: Photo of Archival Document Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Folder 38: Photo of the “Log Cabin Song” Song Cover Page Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Folder 39: Computer Cards Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Folder 40: Negatives Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

• Box 4: Oversized Photographs Request Reading Room Access

  Barcode: 708140

  • Item 1: 2 Gentlemen and 1 Lady Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Item 2: Exhibit/Displays Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Item 3: Exhibit/Display with model ships and a girl standing in front of it Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Item 4: Books, Typewriter, and more Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Item 5: Separated Photograph from Folder 7 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    A large print/ picture of man in a suit staring at a sign with “G.T.T.” nailed to a door.

  • Item 6: Separated Photographs from Folder 10 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Two Large photographs focused on an exposed exterior corner of a log cabin with wooden sideboard paneling (and a window air conditioning unit).

  • Item 7: Separated Photograph from Folder 13 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    A large photograph of a log cabin with a covered porch that appears to be leaning to the side and a “Keep Out” sign above its door.

  • Item 8: Separated Photograph from Folder 14 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    A large photograph of a white log cabin with a dog trot.

  • Item 9: Separated Photograph from Folder 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    A large photograph of a log cabin exterior corner with a small wooden ladder (or some type of wooden frame).

  • Item 10: “The Cabin” Print Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    Extent: 3

  • Item 11: Log Cabin Exterior on Oversized Tan Cardstock Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

• Box 5: Posters Request Reading Room Access

  Barcode: 708141

  • Item 1: “Dog Trots and Mud Cats: the Texas log House” Posters Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    These posters state: “An Exhibit developed by the North Texas State University Historical Collection.  This project has been funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and North Texas State University Faculty Research Committee.”
    Extent: 10