2,092 research outputs found
Ron White photograph, Saltcoats Fair, 1967.
No full textBilly Coats' Gallopers - G113 - photographed 1967
Jere Nash Interview with Billy Powell
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Republican Party chair Billy Powell in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Powell\u27s background; Billy Mounger; Mississippi Republican Party; involvement in a bond issue campaign for Rankin County in the early 1970s; working on Larry Swells for Rankin County supervisor; working on Kirk Fordice gubernatorial campaign and Phil Bryant\u27s state legislature campaign; organizing a county Republican precinct; the kitchen cabinet that meets regularly with Governor Fordice; Evelyn Gandy; Haley Barbour; Powell\u27s election as chair of the state Republican Party; getting politicians to switch to the Republican Party; battle over state party leadership; Eddie Briggs; Roger Wicker\u27s first congressional race; Chip Pickering\u27s first congressional race; Mike Parker switching parties; Ronnie Musgrove; various Republican candidates for state offices in the 1990s; and Amy Tuck and others switching parties
John White vs. Billy Haynes
No full textJohn White, left, East Texas State Teachers College middleweight and Billy Haynes of San Antonio put all four gloves into action in their hot semifinals Golden Gloves tournament. Haynes won. Published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition February 19, 1952.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/17775/thumbnail.jp
Ron White photograph, Blackburn Fair, 1984.
No full textBilly Hill's Steam Yachts - SY1 - photographed 21 April 1984
Communion (2010) 35mm, black and white, silent, 10 mins
No full textThis is a 35mm, black and white, silent film. 10 minutes.
Photographed and lit by Billy Williams BSC OBE
The sitter is photographed in soft diffused light, the church is illuminated in hard light to emphasise Pugin details of the interior.
Supported by a Goldsmiths Research Support Award and an Arts Council of England Artists' Award
Communion uses classical Hollywood studio lighting and cinematography
Recitation: Billy Bees Wax and Telephone Resin
No full textCollected and transcribed by Kay White
Recited by Mrs. Walter Elam Morrillton, Ark.
May 1, 1962
Billy Bees Wax and Telephone Resin
Reel 414, Item 17
Me an Billy Bees Wax and Telephone Resin we all went a huntin.
We went up possum Flat and down Koon Branch and there we treed a possum. I told Billy Bees Wax and Telephone Resin bein we's all such good climbers, I'd climb that tree myself. So I clum about 20 feet high, and I slapped my hand down. Now I guess I got ye. , oh I guess that's a knot. I clum up about 20 feet higher. I slapped my hand down. Now I guess I got ye. Uh, I guess that's a crooked limb.
I clum up about 20 feet higher, bove the top of that tree. I heard something go kerslish, kerslosh, I guess dats dis niggah hisself. Bout that time old Bulger an ole Tige, dah all jumped onto me. I tole Billy Bees Wax an Telephone Resin if day didn get them dogs offa me I'd get em off myself. Bout that time Sal come long, I axed Sal if I could go home with her. I don know sir. I don much care ifin you do. As we went down the road we walked awful close together.
Sal walked on one side of the road and I walked on the tother.
We had a great arguement. Sal argued sweet potatoes growed the best in sandy land, and I did too. And we got down to the Old Missy's house we set awful close together. Sal sat in one corner of the house and I set in the tother. Ize settin there well contented myself, I heard something go kerslish and I axe Sal what that wuz.
She says I don know suh. I guess that's the old misses churnin.
Well, I wuz sittin there well contented myself and I heard something go kerslish kerslash. I didn take time to axe Sal what that wuz, I jumped out the winder into a soap barrel up to my neck. I went runnin off down thro town. I axe them what they'd do my washin for. They said half price, you're already soaped.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Charming Billy; My boy Billy
No full textvoiceCollected by M. C. Parler Mrs. Retha Hanna
West Fork, Ark. Aug. 18, 1959
Reel 315, Item 7
Billy Boy
Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Oh, Where have you been, charming Billy?
I have been to seek a wife,
She's the joy of my life,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Did she set for you a chair, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Did she set for you a chair, charming Billy?
Yes, she set for me a chair;
She's got ringlets in her hair;
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
How tall is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
How tall is she, charming Billy?
She's as tall as any pine
And as straight as a punkin vine;
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
How old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
How old is she, charming Billy?
She's three times six, four times seven, Twenty-eight and eleven,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Can she make a cherry pie, charming Billy?
She can make a cherry pie Quick as a cat can wink her eye,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Does she often go to church, Billy Boy,Billy Boy,
Does she often go to church, charming Billy?
Yes she often goes to church,
With her bonnet white as birch,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Did she ask you to sit down, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Did she ask you to sit down, charming Billy?
She did ask me to sit down
With a curtsey to the ground,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.Billy Boy Reel 315, Item Continued
Can she make a pudding well, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Can she make a pudding well, charming Billy?
She can make a pudding well,
I can tell it by the smell,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Can she make a feather bed, Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Can she make a feather bed, charming Billy?
She can make a feather bed,
Place the pillows at the head,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Can she card and can she spin, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Can she card and can she spin, charming Billy?
She can card and she can spin,
She can do most anything,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
"My mother used to sing it many years ago."Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Billy Jinky Wells dressed in white holding an accordion
No full textBilly Jinky Wells standing in a white hat and suit holding an accordion. Behind him people sit in the grass and on benches in a waterside park.https://scholars.unh.edu/cdss_photos/1057/thumbnail.jp
Billy Murphy [picture].
No full textInscriptions: "Billy Murphy July 1905"--White lettering, on front of photograph; "Protected 3-7-05"--White lettering, on front of photograph; "March 21th 1915 with Best wishes to Billy Lawlis from Billy Murphy Auckland N.Z.--In ink, on mount; "Recognised as Australian when he went to U.S. His brother fought in Aust/Sth Africa"--In pencil, on back of mount.; Part of: Arnold Thomas boxing collection.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3624098
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