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A. Personal & Family Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A
The Family and Personal Collection offer sources for the study of a variety of topics such as agriculture, economic conditions, the Civil War, the role of Texan women, and family history in Texas history. Such collections contain diaries, letters, land records, memoirs, and other papers collected by, and centered on, an individual or successive generations of a family. Among the collections is material from Karle Wilson Baker, Stephen F. Austin, Archie P. McDonald, and local NAACP leader Arthur Weaver. These collections document the social, cultural and economic history of East Texas from European colonialism to the present day and provide a view into southern culture and life.

Found in 376 Collections and/or Records:

Willie Gramling Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: A-0300
Dates: 1909-1922

Pressler Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0054
Abstract

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

Dates: 1875-1978

Lisenbee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0083
Abstract

This collection is a miscellanous assortment of items connected to the Lisenbee family: an envelope, some Confederate stamps, a receipt, field notes, and several certificates.

Dates: 1845-1867; Event: Donated in 1934

Boynton-Binford Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0070
Abstract

The letters describe Central and East Texas -- the land, weather, transportation, business. They discuss philosophy of love and marriage. Places mentioned include Auburn and Crawford, Alabama; and Henderson, Waxahachie, Dallas, Larissa, and Jamestown, Texas.

Dates: 1865-1866

Marguerite Crouse Bezanson World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0149
Abstract

The collection consists chiefly of special orders relating to the military service and career of Bezanson, most of which were issued at the Nacogdoches Army Administration School.

Dates: 1936-1946; Event: Donated in 1986

Wortham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0147
Abstract

Photocopies of newspaper articles, including obituaries of members of the related Ashcroft family, an invitation, a letter, a will, and some other items relating to the Hopkins County family.

Dates: 1852-1891

Sylvia and Tom McGrath Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0261
Abstract

This collection contains personal letters, documents and college admissions letters Sylvia McGrath received as well as letters and documents sent to her parents and a few other members of her family. The collection also contains a large assortment of photographs and negatives, especially of Sylvia and Myra's childhood, and a scrapbook for Sandra McGrath.

Dates: 1922-1985

Luther Swift Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0279
Abstract

Legal documents pertaining to Nacogdoches area land transactions make up the bulk of this collection, though there is also some correspondence, an insurance policy for the Swift Bros. livery barn, and a map of land off Bois d'Arc Street.

Dates: 1900-1956

John R. Eddings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0278
Abstract

WWII materials

Dates: 1943-1950

Cheryl Keneaster Nelson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0324
Scope and Contents The Cheryl Keneaster Nelson Collection offers an insight into music that was popular in the first half Twentieth Century in America, specifically in Texas and the area around Houston, via a collection of piano sheet music published in America between 1909 and 1976. (Very few pieces after the mid-fifties.) Music styles represented are varied, including a number of romantic ballads, ragtime and blues, patriotic songs, novelty pieces, and a wide variety of dance pieces such as waltzes and...
Dates: 1909-1984

Janet Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0032
Abstract

Artist and faculty member at SFASU. Collection includes newspaper clippings, programs of exhibits, original drawings illustrating The Yazoo River, prints of birds of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana, magazine articles illustrated by Turner, and biographical information.

Dates: 1950-1989

John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0138
Abstract

This collection consists of newspaper clippings, copies of police reports, and photocopies of photographs relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, and the subsequent killings of Officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald. The materials document contemporary reporting and official investigations surrounding these events.

Dates: 1963-1994

Stone Fort Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0154
Abstract

Deeds and other documents relating to the ownership of the Stone Fort and the lot on which it stood in downtown Nacogdoches.



Dates: 1841-1901

Sparks Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0044
Abstract Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1835-1971

East Texas Railroads and Locomotives Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0080
Abstract A collection of materials compiled from various sources concerning many of the railroad lines which have operated in East Texas. Included in the collection are an original first mortgage bond of the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company, the Articles of Incorporation of the Red River, Sabine and Western Railway Company, a subscription list for a proposed line of the Texas and New Orleans Railway Company through Nacogdoches, correspondence relating to the history of the Moscow, Camden...
Dates: 1853-1985

Robert Wilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0081
Abstract

Robert Wilson was a businessman, soldier in the Republic of Texas Army and congressman of Harrisburg, Texas. Photostats of Wilson's letters to his son, James Theodore Dudley Wilson, and some miscellaneous other documents.

Dates: 1835-1856

Garland Roark Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0181
Abstract The collection spans Roark's writing career from 1943 until his death in 1985 and contains galley proofs and original handwritten and typed manuscripts of many of his books, newspaper articles, and other writings, including unpublished material. Also included are Roark's research notes and materials, and promotional material for the movies based on his novels Wake of the Red Witch, and Fair Wind to Java....
Dates: 1946-1988

Goss Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0187
Dates: 1859

New London School Explosion Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0203
Abstract

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from various Texas newspapers about the school explosion.

Dates: 1937

Kelsey Harris Douglass Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0132
Abstract The collection includes seven letters written by Kelsey H. Douglass to his wife Minerva while he was a member of Congress in Houston. The letters are mostly concerned with getting things done at home during Kelsey's absence. These letters were laminated with the intent of preserving them. Unfortunately the lamination is starting to turn darker in color. There are also two letters from Minerva Douglass' aunt and uncle, Jesse and Mary Childress Benton. One letter was written from Nachitoches,...
Dates: 1837-1840, 1987; Event: Donated in 1988