Calvin W. Hines was a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University. Mr. Hines did research on Elihu B. Washburn and the Franco-Prussian War. He has donated his research so that others who may be doing research on the subject would have one place to look through many documents. Most of the documents in the collection are photocopies.

The papers include letters to Mary Hofmann concerning her work, a climatological data sheet from 1941, Mary Hofmann's certificate of authority allowing her to make the meteorological reports, and the meteorological records for each month of the years 1900-1944. H. H. Cooper served as weather observer from 1900 to mid-1903 when Mary took over the job.

Arranged in 5 boxes and 1 bundle consisting of 800 total items.

This collection consists mainly of historical information about San Augustine. There is some personal material such as cards and invitations.

This collection has the family bibles of John and Elvira McClean Holdeman and Alma Florence McCasland Holdeman as well as photocopies of Republic of Texas land documents and Confederate military service records of the Nacogdoches family.

The collection consists mostly of photographs of George and Bertha Hogan's family.

This collection consists of Price – Hall family letters, photographs and newspaper clippings about the family.

The collection contains research materials used for six of Ericson's books; Nacogdoches Fires and Firemen (1976), The People of Nacogdoches County in the Civil War (1980), Panola County, Texas in the Civil War (2001), Sabine County, Texas in the Civil War (2001), and San Augustine County, Texas in the Civil War (2002).

The Joe E. Ericson Research Collection is a collection of research materials on banks and bankers, published articles, research papers, and notes on Nacogdoches history from 1914-1979.

This collection contains articles, magazines, maps, newsletters, photographs, magazines, pamphlets, and other published material relating to the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of full and partial issues of the Hump Pilot's Association quarterly newsletter and the China-Burma-India Veteran Association's monthly magazine 'CBI Sound-Off'.

The collection includes correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, speeches and biographical information.

The collection mostly consists of photographs taken during the 1930's and 1940's.

The collection contains letters from Isabel Chireno to her parents, and from the Mother Superior of Sacred Heart to Mrs. Chireno. The Mother Superior in these letters may be Rosalie Pepin (Sister Mary Euphrosine), who was in charge of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at the time of Sister Maria Theresa's death, on August 31, 1874.

The material in the collection is an example of the publishing process for the book "Between Loaded Guns". It includes the original manuscript pages, the galley proof, newspaper articles, and film script adaptations.

The collection consists of newspaper clippings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s as well as family photographs.