Note to have TJ Dunlap (consultant to Armin's group at BCM) to prepare for upcoming visit by Governor Jakianov. Some good initial planning for events with TMH, Mayor, and Santa Fe Gold ... but more followed this including a meeting with Governor Bush and more. A very important step in this partnership for sure.

A more complete planning note regarding Governor Jakianov's visit to Texas. I found this in my zip file mydocs as JAKIANV1.doc then saved it as "jakianv1b.doc" in the since it has more detail.

Ken Jones and Gwen in bathing suits standing beside a car (Studebaker Land Cruiser) parked on the beach.

This 3/4” U-Matic tape contains a lecture titled "Dentistry" by Ernest Beerstecher, PhD. The lecture took place April 23, 1980, and it was a part of the series “Conversations with the Past.” The recording runs 50:55, with about 50 minutes of lecture content. According to the credits, it was a Medical Community Television System Production. Sally Webb is Producer/Director. Mark Adamcik, Linda A. Morales, and Marilyn Caplovitz were the Technical Staff. The recording is a duplication, in color.
(0:01) The recording begins with videotape leader and a countdown.
(0:20) Program begins with TMC Librarian Beth White at a podium introducing Dr. Ernest Beerstecher, Chairman of Department of Biochemistry at UT Dental Branch and Professor of Dental History.
(0:45) Dr. Beerstecher begins his talk by discussing the history of the TMC land, which he claims was owned by a physician in Spanish Texas in 1820.
(2:46) Dr. Beerstecher discusses his interest in history and its role in predicting the future.
(3:53) He discusses present challenges in dentistry and other medical professions, particularly in reference to advertising and the Federal Trade Commission.
(6:25) History of dentistry. Glossing over ancient history, starting with the Renaissance. He discusses the historical role of priests and barbers.
(8:39) Dentistry as a craft and dentistry as a branch of medicine. These two paths crossed in the U.S. around 1800.
(9:41) Dentistry’s patron saint, Saint Apollonia.
(11:15) Dentistry in art. Presentation slides show art depicting the craftsman dentist.
(14:33) Professional tradition of dentistry, emergent in France. Images and discussions of dental literature. In 1728 Pierre Fauchard published his book The Surgical Dentist. Some of his students came to America. Dr. Beerstecher notes that France had been an early leader in dentistry, but after the French Revolution and the revocation of professional licensing standards, French dentistry declined.
(18:26) American dentists. He mentions George Washington and his dental troubles. Paul Revere practiced dentistry. Revere can be considered the father of American forensic dentistry because he identified General Warren’s body from the Battle of Bunker Hill based on his teeth.
(23:33) Spanish Texas required a license to practice dentistry. Don Pedro Lartique, one of Fauchard's students, received his license in San Antonio in 1806. Dr. Beerstecher claims it’s the oldest dental license in America, and that it became a model for other licenses. After Independence in Texas, there were no more licensing requirements, so more dentists appeared.
(28:51) Texas dentists advertised in newspapers. Dr. Davis in Galveston, Dr. Evans in Houston, Dr. Marks in Houston, barber-surgeon Henry Doebelmann in Houston. Presentation slides show advertisements as well as statistics about dentists in Texas.
(33:22) Organization of dental societies, dental journals, dental schools, and licensing starting in Texas in the 1830s.
(35:18) Dr. Beerstecher uses Doc Holliday to illustrate the experience of dental students.
(41:00) Holliday was born in Georgia then attended the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. It was in a medical center near medical schools, hospitals, and the like. Dr. Beerstecher describes what it was like to study dentistry there.
(45:00) After dental school, Holliday had a practice in Georgia, but moved west after learning he had tuberculosis. In Dallas he began making dentures and doing other behind-the-scenes dental work, even winning awards. He started playing cards and eventually left town. He later died of tuberculosis.
(47:15) Emphasis on dental education in Texas in 1870s and 1880s, although there was no school. Eventually a school was planned for Galveston, but did not come to pass. In Houston in 1905, a group of citizens including John Henry Kirby advocated and raised money for a dental school at Travis and Congress.
(49:01) Concluding his talk, Dr. Beerstecher emphasizes that an interest in education has been central to the history of Texas dentistry.

Correspondence from P. Caldwell to Colonel William Cook requesting payment for hauling two loads of powder and lead, per contract with Dr. John Sutherland

List of sequestered inventory belonging to the Estate of Dr. F. Cheasman, deceased, items include spanish saddle, five boxes of surgical instruments, and a pair of pistols

Paid receipt billed to Mr. Lockridge for various medicinal treatments purchased, including magnesium, iron, castor oil, and calomel

Receipt for paid medical consultation provided to Daniel (illegible), deceased

• Itemized bill to Captain James Cox for medical visits, services, prescriptions rendered to Capt. Cox, his family, and multiple enslaved persons, two of whom are named Roda and Angeline
• account includes an offset of credits against the total for horses and birthshire hogs

Itemized bill to Robert Elgin for medical visits, services, medications rendered. Dr. Elgin's account mentions administering calomel, rhubarb, quinone, cupping, and delivering a baby

Republic of Texas report from the Committee on Claims and Accounts stating congress will take no action regarding the petition filed by R.R. Royan? as an act has been passed providing for such cases, signed by J.H. Everett, Committee Chairman

Receipt of payment for medical and obstetrical services rendered to servants of Mr. Seawell

Promissory note from D. Gallaher to G? Adams to pay ten dollars

Partial payment to Gail Borden, Collector of Public Dues for the Department of Brazos, for the second installment on one league of land, granted to and signed on behalf of self, Thomas J. Gazley

Treasury Warrant No. 834 issued by the Treasurer of the Republic of Texas, paid to G.W. Hill for contingent expense of Merchant? Marine Department

• Legal instrument written by Asa Hoxey, proprietor and owner of Washington town stock, acknowledging the sale and transfer of one share to David Frost
• certified, signed, and sealed by Hon. S. Saul, pro tem judge

Treasury Warrant No. 2792 payable to A. Jones for compensation of president

Itemized bill for medical services and prescriptions, paid in full by James L. Chambers, administrator

Paid receipt to Dr. Labadie for cedar lumber by Estate of J.P. Burger

• Itemized bill for medical services, medications rendered to William Lockridge, deceased
• received payment in full by Rebecca Lockridge, Executrix for Estate of Lockridge

War tax receipt for five dollars in Confederate Treasury notes to J. Nagle

Document written by Dr. Patterson certifying medical treatment was rendered to enslaved persons with secondary syphilis, who were subsequently cured (according to Dr. Patterson), at the request of plantation owners, Jacob and Liza Thomas

Itemized receipt for medical visits, medications (calomel, quinine, castor oil, rhubarb, laudanum, etc.) rendered to Raymond Daily

• Claim for medical services, medications rendered to James Miles, deceased
• paid in full by J. Burnam, administrator of Estate of Miles

Bill to Clay Nester for medicine and attention to family during the years 1830-1834, payable to Peebles & Miller

Additional claims filed against Estate of Pilant for medical services rendered, paid in full with interest by admininstrator of estate

Official seal of General Land Offices for the Republic of Texas

Itemized receipt for medical services, provisions provided to Mrs.? Kendrick, family, and enslaved persons

Claim filed against Estate of John Linder? for medical services rendered to decedent, wife, and children, signed by Chief Justice James, paid in full by (illegible), administrator of estate

Stock Certificate No. 2012 issued by the Sabina City Company to pay James (illegible) in city lots or lands for one hundred dollars in gold or silver, signed by Samuel Stivers, president of Sabina City Company

Board of Medical Censors, blank form used to grant doctors permission to practice medicine and surgery within a senatorial district in the Republic of Texas

Treasury Department, fifty-dollar "Redback" promissory note No. 4481, red ink in eleaborate design on verso side

Receipt for medical visits, services, medications rendered to William Carp by Dr. Toliver

Receipt for payment by C.C. Dyer for Adam Stafford, guardian for Joseph Stafford, for medical services rendered to enslaved woman named Esther while under the "imployment" (sic) of Mrs. Littleton, Stafford Place

Receipt issued the succession of J.D. Howard, deceased, for unpaid medical services rendered the decedent during his last illness

Public Debt Certificate No. 283 approving a payment of sixty dollars to Dr. William P. Smith for medical services rendered as Surgeon General from September 27, 1835 to December 27, 1835

Trifold pamphlet of an illustration and biography of Greek physician Hippocrates as part of a series of famous medical practioners, produced by Coca-Cola Bottling Company

Treasury Warrant No. 568, Appropriation No. 1D, payable in the amount of $139.23 to Dr. Peebles for mileage

Receipt No. 43 from Public Dues, the Department of Brazos, for installments on three leagues of land granted to M? Martinez, signed by R. Peebles

A 2 1/2" by 2" piece of aged white fabric embroidered with two navy blue spread oak leaves surcharged each with a reserved blue acorn. Originally stored in envelope marked "Womens Medical Corps, USNR WWII," and on reverse "Murdina M. Desmond, 2210 Bellefontaine, Houston, Texas 77030."

A 2 1/2" by 2" piece of aged white fabric embroidered with two navy blue spread oak leaves surcharged each with a reserved blue acorn. Possible insect damage along edges of fabric patch. Originally stored in envelope marked "Womens Medical Corps, USNR WWII," and on reverse "Murdina M. Desmond, 2210 Bellefontaine, Houston, Texas 77030."

A 1 1/2" by 3/4" navy blue patch embroidered with a with a spread reserved blue oak leaf surcharged with a white acorn. Originally stored in envelope marked "Womens Medical Corps, USNR WWII," and on reverse "Murdina M. Desmond, 2210 Bellefontaine, Houston, Texas 77030."

A 1 1/2" by 1 1/4" patch with white background embroidered with navy blue 3-bladed propeller superimposed by a reserve blue anchor. Originally stored in envelope marked "Womens Medical Corps, USNR WWII," and on reverse "Murdina M. Desmond, 2210 Bellefontaine, Houston, Texas 77030."

A 1 1/2" circle patch of navy blue background embroidered with reserve blue3-bladed propeller superimposed by a white anchor. Originally stored in envelope marked "Womens Medical Corps, USNR WWII," and on reverse "Murdina M. Desmond, 2210 Bellefontaine, Houston, Texas 77030."

A 3" x 1 3/4" black-and-white photograph with a 1/4" white border of Murdina M. Desmond wearing a U.S. Navy Reserve Women's Reserve uniform while seated at a table with dishes and glasses.

A 3 1/8" x 2 1/8" black-and-white photograph with a 1/4" white border of Jim (James) Desmond and Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond (in military uniform) standing together outdoors, with trees and distant mountains in background. Reverse of photograph labeled, "Jim - dischgd. M. Desmond - en route to discharge."

Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond wearing uniform of U.S. Naval Reserve Women's Reserve, in front of white office blinds, in a 3 3/8" x 2 1/2" black-and-white photograph with 1/4" white border. Reverse labeled "Lt jg [Lieutenant Junior Grade] Murdina M. MacFarquhar Medical Corps (Women) United States Naval Reserve, probably 1944 World War II."

Portrait 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" black-and-white photograph with 1/8" white border showing Dr. Desmond's head and shoulders and wearing uniform of Women's Reserve, United States Naval Reserve. Mounted on cardboard. Reverse labeled in pencil "57495=MC7," and stamped in red ink "L. BAMBERGER & CO. PICTURES-FRAMES-MIRRORS. MAY 11 1945."

Dr. Desmond applies dissection tools to a cadaver in this 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" black-and-white photograph with a narrow white border. Accompanying description states, "Dr. Desmond in Medical School Anatomy Lab 1938-39."

Formal portrait showing Dr. Desmond's head and shoulders in a 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" black and white photograph with a 1/4" white border.

Professional portrait showing Dr. Desmond's head and shoulders in a 5" x 7" black-and-white photograph. Dr. Desmond wears a white lab coat and black frame glasses.

Portrait shows Dr. Desmond's head and shoulders in a 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" black-and-white photograph mounted with masking tape on cardboard and marked with cropmarks.

Portrait shows Dr. Desmond's head and shoulders in a 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" black-and-white photograph with a 1/4" white border. Dr. Desmond wears white frame glasses, white necklack, and white top.

Portrait shows Dr. Desmond's head and shoulders in a 3" x 3" black-and-white photograph. Dr. Desmond wears white frame glasses, white necklace, and white top.

Portrait photograph of Dr. Desmond measuring 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and printed on cardstock. Reverse stamped in black ink, "Medical Photographic Laboratory, Jefferson Davis Hospital, Houston, Texas, File no. 32, Date 10-30-62."

Dr. Desmond stands in front of a wall mounted framed circular artwork showing a man using a scythe and the Latin word maius. Color photograph measures 3 5/8" x 4 5/8 with a narrow black border.

Children may possibly be Dr. Desmond's children, Margaret G. Desmond and James A. Desmond, in this black and white studio photograph measuring 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" with a narrow white border.

Dr. Desmond stand in front of a wall mounted framed circular artwork. Color photograph measures 3 5/8" x 4 5/8" with a narrow black border.

Children may be Dr. Desmond's children, Margaret G. Desmond and James A. Desmond, in this black-and-white studio photograph measuring 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" with a white border.

Color illustration has the text "Cut of my First Suit and Bottle." Reverse is addressed to Mr. Walter Denman of Boswell, Indiana, and postmarked February 18, 1910. Postcard measures 3 1/2" x 5".