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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTranscript of a letter form L. J. Wallace to Jo Wallace wherein L. J. discusses the excitement and unease being felt in the area due to the presence of both Union and Confederate forces. Weather and health are discussed, and it is mentioned that a few Confederate soldiers were hunting some African Americans
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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textLetter from L. J. Wallace to Jo Wallace wherein L. J. discusses the excitement and unease being felt in the area due to the presence of both Union and Confederate forces. Weather and health are discussed, and it is mentioned that a few Confederate soldiers were hunting some African Americans
Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textLetter from L. J. Wallace to Jo Wallace wherein L. J. discusses the excitement and unease being felt in the area due to the presence of both Union and Confederate forces. Weather and health are discussed, and it is mentioned that a few Confederate soldiers were hunting some African Americans
Three views of D. W. Wallace Ranch, Mitchell County, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows three photographs in family album of Wallace family. (Top) group standing in yard: l. to r: Travis Branch; Mary Wallace Fowler; Retha Davis; Mrs. D. W. Wallace; Mrs. Eula Wallace Harris; unidentified; Mrs. Hettye Wallace Branch; and Bert Muse. (Middle)" Travis Branch feeding a flock of chickens. (Bottom)" T. P. Fowler feeding a flock of chickens
Wallace High School [01]
No full textThe 1895 graduating class of Wallace High School in Wallace, Idaho. l-r: Kate Baldwin, Myrta Howes, unidentified, Kate Hanley, Nina Hogan, Luneti Worstell
Oral history interview with Wallace Coffey
No full textWallace Coffey, former chairman of the Comanche Tribe, discusses his political career serving as director of the Nebraska Indian Commission and eventually becoming the chairman of the Comanche Tribe in 1991. He talks about his grandfather, Eli Coffey, who served in Troop L of the 7th Cavalry and his lasting legacy on his family.The Troop L Collection is a series of interviews conducted as a part of dissertation research for Andy Moser, titled A Shadowed Path, Native American Soldiers in the US Army, 1891-1897. Through interviews with the troop's descendants, the purpose of the Troop L Oral History Project is to provide Native American perspective to the documented history of Troop L, 7th Cavalry, which was stationed at Fort Sill from 1891-1897
Senator Wallace F. Bennett
No full textPhotograph of Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah (L)shaking hands and posing for photo with two men (G. Sinclair Armstrong, Chairman, Security and Exchange Commission and Charles T. Kapplen, Attorney
[Letter from Wallace L. Jernigan to T. N. Carswell - September 5, 1962]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Wallace L. Jernigan, Candidate for Congress Eighth District, Homerville City Hall Bldg., dated September 5, 1962. Jernigan expresses his appreciation for the campaign contribution and requests continued help, advice, and suggestions from Carswell
Watching As The World Turns: Performance, Everyday Life, and the Self in the Novels of David Foster Wallace
No full textThis thesis examines manifestations of performance in the novels of David
Foster Wallace. It argues that as Wallace engages with the theme of
performance he concurrently addresses the related topics of everyday life and the self. Taking key theories of performance from the discipline of
performance studies and applying these to an analysis of Wallace’s novels, this thesis demonstrates how the views of everyday life and the self presented by Wallace are predicated on performance and uncertainty. It first compares Wallace’s view of the everyday with theories put forward by Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord. Wallace’s view of the self is then outlined, primarily through close readings of how choice, boredom, rituals, and masks are presented in Wallace’s novels, alongside comparisons of his work with two further theorists of the everyday, Raoul Vaneigem and Erving Goffman. The thesis concludes by examining how Wallace presents audiences within his novels, suggesting that he often uses performance situations to articulate his thoughts on the relationship between the self and the other, before calling for further interdisciplinary research into Wallace’s writing
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