The research collection has a wide range of materials--correspondence, maps, negatives, photographic prints, pedigree charts, research for Sanders’s publications, as well as a few of those publications—concerning the families and places of East Texas. The majority of negatives and prints are photographs of other photographs or documents. Several prints, especially those of a 1928 lynching at the Center Courthouse, are particularly graphic.

The L. T. Barret Collection compliments the more extensive Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers (A-5) by adding new documentation of L. T. Barret’s mercantile and farming pursuits, military service, masonry, and community service. While the collection consists primarily of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued and received by L. T. Barret and Thomas Jefferson Johnson, there is also business, family, military, and personal correspondence, advertising, slave contracts and legal documents.

Genealogical and Historical Research

Two bankers boxes containing family letters, photographs and receipts

Typed transcriptions of correspondence, poems and newspaper clippings relating to the Burk and Bone families of Nacogdoches County.

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

Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960) was a Texas author, poet, educator, and literary figure whose works included poetry, fiction, children's literature, and essays inspired by Texas history and the natural world. A prominent member of the Texas literary community, she taught at Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College and received national recognition for works such as Blue Smoke, Dreamers on Horseback, and Star of the Wilderness.

The collection consists of mostly legal documents and receipts associated with J. B. B. Davenport and his son, J. B. Davenport.

Correspondence, land documents, legal and financial papers of this San Augustine County family. Family members also lived in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and items in the collection relate to those places. Includes correspondence with James Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor of the State of Texas.

Letters to and from family members and friends with the majoritiy of the letters being from Albert to Lera.

This collection consists of photocopies of the U.S.S. Stephen F. Austin's logbooks as well as newspaper articles, photographs and correspondence pertaining to the vessel.

The James Taylor Lacey Acknowledgement Books consists of three volumes of personal papers documenting Lacey’s work as a notary public in Rusk County, Texas, ranging from the years 1899 to 1939. The collection primarily contains records of notary acknowledgments relating to land transactions, deeds, powers of attorney, oil and gas leases, and vendor releases. This collection provides insight into the legal and administrative role Lacey filled in his daily life.

The collection includes correspondence, tax receipts, bills, and genealogical materials.