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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 378 Collections and/or Records:

Bryan Holt Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0306
Dates: 1970-1995

Villa Belle Scogin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0307
Dates: 1903-2015

Rubie Morton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0308
Scope and Contents

The letter in this collection is a plea from a man named Bob who asks Ruby to go away with him. The letter indicates that Ruby may have been in some sort of danger or possibly a victim of abuse. The letter is not dated and the writer gives only his first name.

Dates: c.1919-1921

Carrye Burley Brown Personal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0309
Dates: 1975-2001

May Olivia Miller Pinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0310
Dates: 1476-1986

A.P. Montes Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0311
Dates: Event: Donated 10/25/2015

Hayes Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0312
Dates: c.1903

Stockwell Family Collection of Photographic Negatives

 Collection
Identifier: A-0313
Content Description

The collection consists of photographic negatives and slides from the Stockwell family, c.1930s. There are a wide range of images, including those of family and family trips, military service, the Boy Scouts, Nacogdoches, and SFA. All the negatives come from Schlueter's Studio in Nacogdoches.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/25/2016

Denard Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0314
Content Description

The collection consists primarily of photographs from the turn of the 20th century, but also includes death notices and correspondence.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/25/2016

Waghalter-Bruder Genealogy Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0315
Content Description

Genealogy research from the estate of Milton H. Waghalter.

Dates: Event: Donated 9/25/2014

The Rusk Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0030
Scope and Contents The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: Event: The Thomas J. Rusk Letters (59 originals, 1 photocopy) were loaned from 6/24/1975 to early 2005.; Event: Purchased by the University 9/26/2016.; Event: Purchased materials received by the ETRC 10/10/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 10/24/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 1/23/2017.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 3/15/2017.

Arthur Weaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0292
Scope and Contents The Arthur Weaver Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, legal documents, ledgers, notebooks, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and case files dating from 1940 to 2005. The geographic area covered in the collection is mostly the city and county of Nacogdoches, but does contain material from other East Texas counties including San Augustine, Shelby, Cherokee, Rusk, Angelina, and Polk. The collection provides information about all stages of Arthur Weaver’s life from birth until...
Dates: 1940-2005; Event: Donated 2/10/2013

Mary Dorsey Bates Genealogy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0319
Content Description

East Texas family history; programs from various organizations; church, Masonic, cemetery and school records; letters; photographs; and notes about Captain Cooper's house.

Dates: 1839-1989

Ida Hillenkamp Friendship Journal

 Collection
Identifier: A-0351
Scope and Contents

This collection is a single autograph book with handwritten missives, poetry and notes written to Ida Hillenkamp from her friends. There are 25 entries.

Dates: Event: Donated 11/17/2016

Margaret Dallum Howell Hollon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0318
Content Description

Genealogical and Historical Research

Dates: Event: Donated 12/4/2007

Cleaver Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0293
Scope and Contents

This collection contains many different types of materials. There are newspapers, newspaper clippings, photographs, diplomas, certificates, correspondence, wills and probate records, journals, newsletters, and several books. Some items of note include plaques honoring various family members and the Arthur and Maude Cleaver’s original Prairie View A and M diplomas from the 1911-1912.

Dates: Event: Donated 6/29/2013

J. H. Birdwell and J. H. Birdwell Jr. Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0320
Dates: Event: Donated 4/22/2016

Loftin-Brooks Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0322
Scope and Contents These documents note the progression of land sales within one family from the time of the mid-1820s under the Mexican Government, to the Republic of Texas, the State of Texas, through to World War I. This collection provides an overview about the value and social status of owning land and the careful recording of the land sales in county records. Prominent Texas personages include Peter Ellis Bean, Henry Raguet, Thomas Rusk, Hayden H. Edwards, and Jose Mariana Acosta, governor of Coahuila...
Dates: Event: Donated 2/13/2018

Helen Elizabeth Ames Coulter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0325
Scope and Contents The Helen Elizabeth Ames Coulter Collection offers an insight into music that was popular in the first half Twentieth Century in America, via a collection of piano sheet music published in America between 1890 and 1960. Music styles represented are varied, including a number of romantic ballads ,marches, and a wide variety of dance pieces such as waltzes and foxtrots. The years around The World Wars are well represented with a variety of patriotic pieces. Particularly well represented are...
Dates: 1910-1970

Zula Orton Cariker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0326
Dates: 1897-1966