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Bill Nicholls
No full textDelissaville Mission. The man in the centre with the white shirt on is the one and only Bill Harney - author and expert on Indigenous history. Photo shows buildings with several people standing around, child on right obviously scared of soldier with gas mask and rifle. Delisaville.Foley, Mike
Baker Institute Report
No full textHighlights include former President Bill Clinton's Rice University address and the national oil company (NOC) study
Baker County : Community wildfire protection plan
No full text108 pp. Maps, charts, and illustrations. Last revised February 15, 2006; captured August 22, 2006.[The Plan is] A working document that will serve as a resource for providing
information that will enhance community safety through
hazard and risk reduction in the wildland-urban interface areas of
Baker County.... This community wildfire protection plan has been prepared in compliance with
the National Fire Plan, the 10-year Comprehensive Strategy, the Tri-County
Hazard Mitigation Plan (Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties), Oregon Senate
Bill 360 (The Oregon Forestland-Urban Interface Act of 1997), and Healthy
Forest Restoration Act (HFRA). [From the Plan
Letter from Anson Baker to Senator Langer Asking for Support of US Senate Bill 2151, January 31, 1956
No full textThis handwritten letter dated January 31, 1956, from Three Affiliated Tribes Member Anson Baker to United States (US) Senator William Langer, references Langer\u27s support for US Senate Bill 2151 (S. 2151). A name is written at the bottom of the letter and a stamp at the top reads, rec\u27d Feb 6 1956.
See also:
Letter from Senator Langer to Anson Baker Regarding Request for Support of US Senate Bill 2151, February 13, 1956
Letter from Senator Langer to Anson Baker Informing that US Senate Bill 2151 Passed the Senate, March 19, 1956https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1912/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Bill Kubick and Lillian Baker, to Congressman, United States Congress, April 1985
No full textLetter to Congressmen calling for a halt on H.R. 442 mailed to all members of Congress during the week of April 15-20, 1985. Main body of letter is written by Bill Kubick with a flyer including clippings and commentary written by Lillian Baker.The Japanese American Relocation Collection is composed of ephemera related to the relocation program during World War II. Items include the official government report of Manzanar Relocation Center, a photo album, post-war activism materials related to preserving and remembering the camps, various clippings, and documents. The strength of this collection is found in its many perspectives on the controversial relocation program and how it has been presented since World War II
Ivy Baker Priest posing with dollar bill
No full textIvy Baker Priest was United States Treasurer during the Eisenhower administration from 1953 to 1961, and served as California Treasurer under Ronald Reagan from 1966 to 1974. Her photographs reflect her years in public office and include portraits, publicity shots, family photographs, political functions, and groups of politicians and public officials. Black and white photograph of Priest posing with a dollar bill and her enlarged signature
Arkansas traveler
No full textfiddlesName of speakers:
Bill Baker ’’Toby” Baker Address:
St. Paul, Arkansas Date:
January 3, 1959
Reel 269 Item 16 ARKANSAS TRAVELER Bill: Say where you started?
Toby: I ain’t started nowhere. I’m just a coming
from some place.
Bill: What’s your occupation?
Toby: Well, I’m a fiddler and a farmer as usual.
Bill: A fiddler and a farmer?
Toby: Yeah.
Bill: What’d you raise on your farm?
Toby: I did raise cotton, but they’ve got me out
on bale now.
Bill: Well, I see you play a violin there.
Toby: No, I play a fiddle.
Bill: You play a fiddle?
Toby: Yeah.
Bill: Well, I declare. Did you ever play before
very many people?
Toby: I played before 5,000 once.
Bill: Well, that’s a pretty large audience to play
before.
Toby: That’s before they got there that I played.
Bill: It was?
Toby: Yeah.
Bill: You know that piece they call the Arkansas
Traveler?
Toby: Well, that’s who you’re looking at.
Bill: Let’s see if you can play it.
(Both play the fiddle tune here)
Bill: Toby, how’s all your hogs down on the farm?
Toby: They’re all well. How’s your folks?
(Fiddle tune again)
Collected by:
Billie Lou Ratliff For:
Mary C. ParlerName of speakers:
Bill Baker "Toby” Baker Address:
St. Paul, Arkansas Date:
January 3, 1959
Reel 269 Item 16 (Cont’d)
ARKANSAS TRAVELER (Continued)
Bill: Seem to me like I’ve saw you some place.
Toby: Well, I guess you did. I’ve been there lots
of times.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: Are you a married man?
Toby: Nope, no bad habits.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: How long you been living around here?
Toby: You see that hill over there?
Bill: That one that’s got the ice on it?
Toby: Yeah,
Bill: Yeah.
Toby: That was there when I come here.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: You don’t mean to tell me you’ve lived here
all your life?
Toby: No, not yet.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: What might your name be?
Toby: It might be Abraham Lincoln, but it ain’t.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: Come on tell me your right name, your full
name.
Toby: George Washington.
Bill: You mean old George that hacked the cherry
tree?
Toby: Gosh no, I ain’t struck a lick of work for
over a year and a half.
(Fiddle tune)
Collected by:
Billie Lou Ratliff For:
Mary C. ParlerCollected by:
Billie Lou Ratliff For:
Mary C. Parler
Name of speakers: Bill Baker Toby Baker
Address:
St; Paul, Arkansas
Date:
January 3, 1959
Reel 269 Item 16 (Cont’d)
ARKANSAS TRAVELER (Continued)
Toby: Say could you tell me which side of a ten-
year old heifer the most hair grows on?
Bill: I never thought about that. I don’t believe
I could. What side?
Toby: Why, the outside.
(Fiddle tune)
Toby: Say did you hear about Jack’s little dog
falling out of the barn loft smack dab in a barrel of turpentine?
Bill: That barn he built?
Toby: Yeah.
Bill: No, did it hurt his dog?
Toby: I don’t know. They ain’t never over took him yet.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: Say there’s not much between you and a fool,
is there?
Toby: Oh, about a foot and a half.
(Fiddle tune)
Bill: Toby, I was just a thinking, did your mother
raise any children?
Toby: Naw, dad won me in a crap game.
(Fiddle tune)Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
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[Letter from John Thomas to Don Baker]
No full textLetter from John Thomas to Don Baker. The letter is in regards to Thomas' disappointment in a recent letter that Baker published in The Voice, which Thomas says creates "discord and controversy" with his accusations against Dallas Gay Alliance, William Waybourn, and Bill Nelson
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