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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:

Charles Lee Hill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0108
Abstract

This collection includes photographs, conductor's scores of musical compositions, newspaper clippings, concert programs and publicity, ads for sheet music and sound recordings, correspondence, World War II Army post newspapers, Hill's writings on Army life, musical theory of jazz and swing, and music education.

Dates: 1933-1983; Event: Donated 2/8/1984; Event: Addendum donated 8/7/1984; Event: Addendum donated 1/30/1985

Martha Frances Hill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0096
Abstract This collection contains papers of Martha Frances Hill documenting her education, professional activities, and personal life through correspondence, school materials, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera. Materials relate to her attendance at Houston High School and Rice Institute, her business endeavors and newspaper work, and include family-related items connected to Tennessee, as well as issues of The Thresher and feature pages from her "Mrs. Houston's Model Kitchen"...
Dates: 1892-1939

Clarice F. Pollard Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: A-0223
Abstract The scrapbook is predominantly and structured around a 21-page typescript entitled "A Khaki WAAC in the Lone Star State." Pollard supplemented the text with caricatures and cartoons, an issue from the class newsletter, the program to a variety show put on by her class, a copy of her transcript, and her class’ graduation program. Pollard includes photographs (originals and photocopies) of her herself, friends and classmates in uniform and in and around Nacogdoches.Researchers...
Dates: 1943-1989

May Olivia Miller Pinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0310
Abstract

Genealogical research collection on the Redding, Reid, Miller, Smith, Maxwell, and Pinson families.

Dates: 1476-1986

San Augustine County Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0169
Abstract

This is a small collection of documents relating to San Augustine County, Texas, which were acquired from a variety of sources, some unknown. The majority of items in the collection are funeral notices and entrance certificates. Unless otherwise noted at the end of each individual entry, the document is an original.

Dates: 1838-1936

George Adams Collection (A.2023.010)

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: A-2023-010
Dates: Donated 11/1/2023

Roy Howard Baskin, Sr. Essays

 Collection
Identifier: A-0239
Abstract

Six notebooks of essays, notebooks are indexed.  Essays have been transcribed and published in book form.

Dates: 1906-1911; 1954-1955; Event: Donated in 2000

Lewis Moore Land Grant

 Collection
Identifier: A-0230
Abstract

1852 land grant for Grayson County.

Dates: 1852

Alfred Penn Texian Loan Certificate

 Collection
Identifier: A-0158
Abstract

A Texian loan certificate that includes Stephen F. Austin's signature (not in good condition).

Dates: 1836

Gregory Arriola Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0233
Abstract

This collection has Gregory Arriola's discharge papers from two stints in the Texas Rangers (1850-1851) and two turn-of-the-century newspaper articles with biographical information on Arriola.

Dates: 1850-1851, 1901, 1904

Day Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0234
Abstract

Photographs of mostly Nacogdoches schools and people.

Dates: 1899-1940s; Event: Donated in 2004

High School Graduation Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: A-0252
Abstract

Memory book belonging to Oveta Bruke who went to Nacogdoches High School. The scrapbook also has references to Lufkin High School.

Dates: 1920

Price-Burrows Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0148
Abstract

The collection consists of photocopies of documents relating to Nacogdoches County land holdings of the Price and Burrows families. Folder 7 is orginal material.

Dates: 1872-1917

L. G. Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0021
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, agendas, committee minutes, bibliographies, and other materials used by the revision commission. Most items are printed or photocopied, but there are some original letters signed by Texas senators, legislators, judges, and other government officials.

Dates: 1957-1974

Benjamin Rush Milam Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: A-0084
Abstract

Copy of an unpublished typescript manuscript by Mrs. M. B. Milam which consists of materials relating to Benjamin Rush Milam. Included is a memorial address to the Texas Legislature by James Milam, a biographical sketch by Dr. C. C. Graham, extracts from published works, and genealogical information on the Milam family.

Dates: Event: Donated 9/1/1945

Whitaker-Fenley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0115
Abstract This collection consists of photocopies and typed transcripts of Civil War letters written from John P. Whitaker to his wife Mary S. ("Dollie") Fenley Whitaker. His letters were written from Louisiana and Arkansas and contain descriptions of camp conditions, war news and rumors, and reports on friends and family, including Mary's brothers John and William, Lawrence and Charles S. Taylor, Henderson Muckleroy, John Baugh, and Capt. Joseph H. Bruton. Whitaker assisted with nursing the sick and...
Dates: 1862-1864

Frederick Voigt Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0117
Abstract The collection consists of photocopies and typed transcripts of letters from Voigt to his first wife, written during his service in the Confederate Army. They contain descriptions of camp life including health conditions, food, clothing, and drilling. He also writes about the progress of the war and personal matters relating to family and Nacogdoches friends. Among those persons mentioned frequently are Fritz Hoya, Charles S. Taylor and family, Capt. Henry C. Hancock, William Clark, and W....
Dates: 1862-1863

Edwin N. Swinburn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0176
Abstract

This collection has photocopies of Edwin N. Swinburn's autobiography, his Confederate enlistment and discharge papers, newspaper articles about his wife's death, and reminiscences of his 86th, 88th, 90th birthday.

Dates: 1813-1908

Travis Price Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0185
Abstract This collection is primarily a pictorial history of the U.S.S. Mobile, 1943-1945. It is 156 pages long and has hundreds of black and white photographs showing all aspects of the ship's participation in World War II. There are photographs of the men in each of their onboard duty departments (supply, navigation, communication, engineering, etc.)as well as candid images of them participating in sporting and club activities. The book has photogrpahs illustrating the Mobile's participation in...
Dates: 1945-1946

Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0005
Abstract

The Barret Collection contains correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes dating from 1845 to 1914. Materials document Barret's activities and include records concerning the Angelina River clearance, the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson, and the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company.

Dates: 1836-1966; Event: Donated in 1966