Oral History Collection

MAIN ENTRY: Hurd, Peter, Mural
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Not given
LOCATION OF INTERVIEW: Lubbock, Texas
INTERVIEWER: Carol Collier
LENGTH OF INTERVIEW: 25 minutes
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: This tape is a narration by Carol Collier describing Peter Hurd’s historical mural located at Holden Hall (then the old West Texas Museum) on the Texas Tech campus.
TAPE ONE, SIDE ONE: Peter Hurd
Painter
Writer
Rancher
Born: Roswell, New Mexico (1904)
West Texas Museum
Historical mural
Fresco
Assisting artists
Project began (February 1953)
Procedure
Cartoon as guide
Tools and equipment
Categories
Categories
Merchants
Crone Webster Furr
Circuit riders
Robert Franklin Dunn
Freighters
Walter S. Posey
Bankers
Charles Ernest Maedgen
Journalists
James Lorenzo Dow
Town builders
Marion Virgil Brownfield
Cowboys
Sam Cullen Arnett
Cattlemen
William Electious Halsell
Stock farmers
Daniel R. Couch
Pioneer women
Dora G. Roberts

Teachers
Marcy M. Dupree
Oil men
Sid W. Richardson
Doctors
Marvin C. Overton
Lawyers
William Harrison Bledsoe
Civic leaders
Clifford B. Jones
Chroniclers
J. Evetts Haley
W. Curry Holden
Tom Lea
John Avery Lomax
Peter Hurd
Mural
Cost
Rotunda architecture
Painting
Details

TAPE ONE, SIDE TWO Blank
RANGE DATES: 1953-1957
BULK DATES: 1953-1957