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This user helped get "Eugene C. Barker" listed at Did You Know on the main page.
This user helped get "James A. Baker (born 1857)" listed at Did You Know on the main page.
This user helped get "Jesse H. Jones" listed at Did You Know on the main page.
This user helped get "Llerena Friend" listed at Did You Know on the main page.
This user helped get "Nettie Lee Benson" listed at Did You Know on the main page.
This user helped "Charles Morgan (businessman)" become a good article on 14 January 2020.
This user helped "James A. Baker (born 1857)" become a good article on 22 May 2020.
This user helped "Jesse H. Jones" become a good article on 23 February 2020.
This user helped "Joseph Jay Pastoriza" become a good article on 1 June 2018.
This user helped "Samuel May Williams" become a good article on 15 November 2019.
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Introduction

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This is a new account. I previously posted as Oldsanfelipe. My contributions to Wikipedia will be at times less frequent since I am spending time and resources on original research.

I write mostly about 19th-century history American history, especially Texas history, though I also like to crossover into Mexican history.

JSTOR access

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  • Some local libraries grant remote access to account holders
  • On site use at public colleges
  • Remote access through student accounts at colleges
  • Apply for JSTOR access through Wikipedia

History online resources

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Texas

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  • Portal to Texas History: [1] A consortium of libraries and repositories headed by the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas. The collection includes historical Texas newspapers going back to the 1830s, digital copies of books, and much more.
  • The Handbook of Texas Online [2] The online version of the Handbook of Texas, published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  • The Southwestern Historical Quarterly Available at JSTOR.
  • Southwest Review Available at JSTOR.
  • The Journal of Southern History Available at JSTOR.
  • East Texas Historical Journal: [3]

Houston

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  • The Houston Review: [4] An academic journal specializing in history of the Houston region.
  • Houston History Magazine: [5] Replacement of the Houston Review. Though not peer-reviewed, it is edited through the University of Houston Program for Public History.
  • Houston Public Library, Digital Archives: [6] Includes links to the African American Research Center, the Family Research Center, and the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, as well as many digital archival collections.
Significant contributions
  1. Lucy G. Acosta
  2. James A. Baker (born 1821)
  3. James A. Baker (born 1857)
  4. James A. Baker, Jr.
  5. Battle of Zacatecas (1914)
  6. Gail Borden
  7. Alfred C. Finn
  8. Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas)
  9. History of Houston
  10. Jesse H. Jones
  11. Knights of Pythias Temple (Dallas, Texas)
  12. Michel Branamour Menard
  13. Charles Morgan (businessman)
  14. Albert Augustus Pope
  15. Pope Manufacturing Company
  16. The Rice (Houston)
  17. Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds
  18. Thomas W. Ward
  19. Walter Prescott Webb
  20. Samuel May Williams
Articles created
  1. Apolonia Muñoz Abarca
  2. Charlotte Baldwin Allen
  3. John M. Allen (soldier)
  4. John Day Andrews
  5. Henry Austin (Texas settler)
  6. James L. Autry House (Courtlandt Place, Houston)
  7. Alice Graham Baker
  8. BakerRipley
  9. Horace Baldwin
  10. Betty Ballinger
  11. Eugene C. Barker
  12. Henry Beissner House
  13. Bender Hotel (Houston)
  14. Benjamin Apartments
  15. Nettie Lee Benson
  16. Bexar Archives
  17. Sarah Campbell Blaffer
  18. Robert Prettyman Boyce
  19. John Thomas Brady
  20. Henry Brashear Building
  21. Samuel Brashear
  22. Paul Bremond
  23. Mary Jane Harris Briscoe
  24. Benjamin P. Buckner
  25. Andrew J. Burke
  26. Ben Campbell (Houston mayor)
  27. Randall B. Campbell
  28. City Hall (Galveston, Texas)
  29. Jan Coggeshall
  30. Arthur B. Cohn House
  31. Columbia (1835 steamboat)
  32. Constitution (1829 steamboat)
  33. Robert Cotner
  34. Courtlandt Place, Houston
  35. Ezekiel Cullen House
  36. Nina J. Cullinan
  37. Edward Hopkins Cushing
  38. George E. Dickey
  39. Downtown Houston Post Office
  40. Eiband's
  41. Louis Tuffly Ellis
  42. Erminia Thompson Folsom
  43. Mariana Thompson Folsom
  44. Ella Florence Fondren
  45. Llerena Friend
  46. Nathan Fuller
  47. George Pierce Garrison
  48. Garten Verein Pavilion
  49. William Fairfax Gray
  50. Jane Birdsall Harris
  51. John Richardson Harris
  52. Margaret Henson
  53. George H. Hermann
  54. John Hunter Herndon
  55. Will Hogg
  56. Houston Direct Navigation Company
  57. Houston Plank Road Company
  58. William J. Hutchins
  59. JW Marriott Downtown Houston
  60. Patrick C. Jack
  61. Harris Kempner (b. 1837)
  62. Jean Lafitte Hotel
  63. Laura (1835 steamboat)
  64. Adele Briscoe Looscan
  65. Arcadia Hernández López
  66. Irvin Capers Lord
  67. Pamelia Dickinson Mann
  68. Robert Sidney Maxwell
  69. Alexander McGowan
  70. Thomas F. McKinney
  71. Clay McShane
  72. Michel B. Menard House
  73. Joseph Robert Morris
  74. Andrew Forest Muir
  75. Neptune (1837 steamboat)
  76. New York (1837 steamboat)
  77. Joseph Jay Pastoriza
  78. People's National Bank Building (Tyler, Texas)
  79. Plateros, Zacatecas
  80. Naomi Polk
  81. Edmund Randolph (ante bellum jurist)
  82. San Jacinto Street Bridge over Buffalo Bayou
  83. Jose Antonio Saucedo
  84. Edna Dee Woolford Saunders
  85. Carlos B. Schoeppl
  86. Jewel Simon
  87. Slipcover (architecture)
  88. Ernest O. Smith
  89. Streckfus Steamers
  90. John H. Sterrett
  91. James H. Stevens
  92. Stowers Building
  93. William Swain (politician)
  94. Texas Transportation Company (1866–1896)
  95. Verne Swain
  96. Horace D. Taylor
  97. Henry Howell Williams
  98. James T.D. Wilson
  99. Ernest Winkler

Oldsanfelipe2 (talk) 17:51, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Virtual food: savory or sweet

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A small helping of Texas wiki-appreciation
Thank you for all your work on Samuel May Williams. I don't know any more about him than I wrote originally, but I was surprised he didn't have his own article. I truly appreciate all your improvements. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 01:40, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the Chicken Fried Steak and thanks for creating the article.Oldsanfelipe (talk) 03:22, 1 December 2014 (UTC)oldsanfelipe

Barnstars

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The Minor barnstar
For identifying small but critical discrepancies in population metrics that arose due to translation difficulties on San Miguel de Allende Rosguill (talk) 19:14, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
Nice job getting Nettie Lee Benson to the main page. Very interesting read. MX () 00:24, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for collaborating with me on finding proper citations for the Houston article, and thanks for helping with the double verification process. I highly appreciate it! TheLionHasSeen (talk) 03:04, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar The Citation Barnstar
For good work during WP: FEB24 drive! Davidindia (talk) 15:43, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Citation Barnstar

This award is given in recognition to Oldsanfelipe2 for collecting more than 100 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
The Texas Barnstar
Thanks for all your contributions to Texas articles! RevelationDirect (talk) 17:01, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Precious

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Texas personalities

Thank you for quality articles about the people in the history of Texas in the 19th century, such as Joseph Jay Pastoriza, Samuel May Williams, Charles Morgan (businessman), Jesse H. Jones, Eugene C. Barker and Nettie Lee Benson, based on academic sources, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2360 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:20, 13 March 2020 (UTC)