Search results

Title: Portrait of Jesse Andrews
Identifier: e_rap_0923
Topic: History
Resource: Jesse Holman Jones papers
Description: Portrait of Jesse Andrews. Handwritten text reads "Jesse Andrews at 75 after 50 years of friendship and association." Note on back reads "after Christmas"

Title: Shoe Shine Boy, Shoe Shine Boy
Identifier: dv_00092
Contributor: Jackson, Floyd, Jones, Jesse, Heyne, Fred, Holcomb, Oscar
Dates: 1954-08-01
Resource: Jesse Holman Jones papers
Description: Film of shoe shiner Floyd Jackson arriving by plane, greeting [family], then shining the shoes of executives at the Bankers Mortgage Building and the Commerce Building. Label on box [not from creator] reads: "Shoe Shine Boy, includes Jesse Jones, Fred Heyne and Oscar Holcomb, 1954". Title from 1985 finding aid was "Shoeshine Box." An August, 27 1954 newspaper article from the Lubbock Morning Avalanche entitled "Shoeshine Anyone? All That's Needed Is Million Dollars" seems to cover the same event, and gives the additional information that Jackson made the trip as a contestant on the TV game show "Truth or Consequences", and received $100 for each shoe shine. The article also names R.E. (Bob) Smith, W.A. (Bill) Smith, J.M. Rockwell, Ralph Johnston, George Brown, Harmon Whittington, John Jones and Curtis Japhet as executives receiving shoe shines at the Bankers Mortgage Building. Black and white picture with no sound. Reel box was sent from Bob Gray at KPRC-TV in Houston to Jesse Jones at the Bankers Mortgage Building in Houston. Due to poor condition of the original film, the digitized copy has some frame jumping and occasional blur, as well as emulsion breakdown visible throughout. A less damaged but more blurry version captured from an earlier VHS transfer of the film can be found as dv_00095.

Title: Shoe Shine Boy [Captured from VHS Access Copy], Shoe Shine Boy [Captured from VHS Access Copy]
Identifier: dv_00095
Contributor: Jackson, Floyd, Jones, Jesse, Heyne, Fred, Holcomb, Oscar
Dates: 1954-08-01
Resource: Jesse Holman Jones papers
Description: Film of shoe shiner Floyd Jackson arriving by plane, greeting [family], then shining the shoes of executives at the Bankers Mortgage Building and the Commerce Building. Label on box [not from creator] reads: "Shoe Shine Boy, includes Jesse Jones, Fred Heyne and Oscar Holcomb, 1954." Title in finding aid was "Shoeshine Box". An August, 27 1954 newspaper article from the Lubbock Morning Avalanche entitled "Shoeshine Anyone? All That's Needed Is Million Dollars" seems to cover the same event, and gives the additional information that Jackson made the trip as a contestant on the TV game show "Truth or Consequences", and received $100 for each shoe shine. The article also names R.E. (Bob) Smith, W.A. (Bill) Smith, J.M. Rockwell, Ralph Johnston, George Brown, Harmon Whittington, John Jones and Curtis Japhet as executives receiving shoe shines at the Bankers Mortgage Building. Black and white picture with no sound. This capture was taken from a VHS access copy of the film [original film was digitized as dv_00092], and contains a blurrier but more stable and less damaged version of the film's content.

Name

Resource

Dates

Collection Strength

Enabled Filters