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B. Business & Organizational Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: B
The Business and Organizational Collection provides insight into regional commercial and non-profit activities. Church registers, doctors ledgers, scrapbooks from various clubs and organizations, and business records from companies such as Mahdeen Hair Tonic, Minton & Minton Lawyers, and Rusk General Store are among some of the collections. A variety of organizations have donated records including the East Texas Historical Association, Texas State Genealogical Society, Four Seasons Garden Club, Center Woman's Reading Club and the Nacogdoches Rotary Club. 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 147 Collections and/or Records:

Lamp-Lite Theatre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0056
Dates: 1976-1995

University Women's Club, Nacogdoches, Texas Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-063
Dates: 1939-2014

Nacogdoches Genealogical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0054
Scope and Contents

With the purpose of sharing ideas and methods in family research, the society collects information on Nacogdoches County and surrounding areas to compile and preserve. The collection includes minutes, yearbooks, membership directories, scrapbooks, financial records, semi-annual publications, and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1976-2007

Nacogdoches Newcomers Club Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B-0150
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of pictures, newspaper clippings, club booklets, cookbooks, board minutes, lunch minutes, and financial reports.

Dates: 1966-2016; Event: Donated 1/27/2011; Event: Addendum donated 8/23/2015; Event: Addendum donated 6/21/2017

Nacogdoches Rotary Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0113
Scope and Contents

These papers include the Nacogdoches Rotary Club's programs (Rotary Thunder) for the years 1945-2017. The collection also includes the Rotary Club's directory for the years 1982-1986, the constitution and by-laws of the Rotary Club, both of which were adopted on July 23, 1976.

Dates: 1945-2017

Smith and Todd Poultry Farm Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0147
Content Description

Photographs from the Smith and Todd poultry hauling business. The collection includes images of the owners, aerial photographs of the farm, and pictures of the different trucks the company used over time.

Dates: Event: Donated 7/31/2015 by Jere Jackson for Sam Smith

The East Texas Timbertones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0155
Content Description

Sheet music, programs, cassette tapes, CDs

Dates: Event: Donated 10/20/2015

Southland Paper Mills, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0055
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of annual reports, meeting minutes, history and activities of the company and other items relating to the business

Dates: 1939-1990

Texas Society of American Foresters Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0026
Scope and Contents Correspondence, membership records, by-laws, financial records, subject files, committee and annual meeting activities, resolutions, and minutes of meetings. Also included are records of the Brazos-Trinity, the Lufkin-Nacogdoches, and the Houston-Huntsville-College Station groups. Files also contain materials relating to the membership and business of the Stephen F. Austin State University chapter of the Society. Furthermore there is mixed media, two cassette tapes, four compact disks (CDs),...
Dates: 1948-2009

Nacogdoches University Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0046
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of original records including memos, correspondence, reports, specifications for a building, materials regarding applications for President of the University, tax receipts, papers relating to Keachi College business, and the Treasurer's Register.

Dates: 1845-1891; Event: Transferred from Nacogdoches County courthouse; Event: Treasurer's register donated by Anna Kathryn Holbrook in 1978; Event: Addendum donated by the Stone Fort Museum in 1983; Event: Addendum donated 9/10/2004; Event: Addendum donated 10/16/2015; Event: Addendum donated from the Nacogdoches County Clerk, 11/8/2023

Pines Garden Club

 Collection
Identifier: B-0164
Dates: Event: Donated 10/3/2008; 1951-2016

Colonial Dames XVII Century, James Haggard Chapter, Nacogdoches Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0015
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, Constitution, By-laws, certificates, membership applications, Annual Tour of Homes information, and other materials related to the Chapter. Genealogical and biographical information are also included.

Dates: -

General Store Ledger, Shelby County, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0121
Scope and Contents

Business ledger of an unknown general store likely located in Shelby County, Texas. The ledger lists customers' names, their purchases, the price of those purchases, and also has a customer index in the front.

Dates: 1890-1893

American Association of University Women, Nacogdoches Chapter Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0016
Scope and Contents

This collection includes scrapbook pages, newspaper clippings and photocopies of newspaper clippings, photographs, original event brochures, and notebook inserts from various leaders and years of leadership within the organization.

Dates: 1930-2013

Dr. Thomas Snead Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0134
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of court reportings. Most transcripts are from Angelina County, Texas. The most prominent cases are #24,654 Angelina Hardwood Lumber vs Prairie Producing Co. and #23,529 E. B. Kendrix vs Southern Pacific Transportation Company.

Dates: Event: Donated 1/14/2011

Texas Forestry Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0069
Scope and Contents

Records of the Texas Forestry Association from 1936 to 1993. Records include annual and spring meetings, committee reports, special programs as Tree Farm and Texas Reforestation, Project Learning Tree, as well as media files. Separate indexes have been prepared for important speeches given at meetings as well as photographs found in the collection.

Dates: 1936-1993

Cum Concilio Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0019
Scope and Contents The collection contains the official records of the Club including the constitution, by-laws, correspondence, minute books, and treasurer's book as well as newspaper clippings, yearbooks, and scrapbooks. Club members often annotated their yearbooks with changes to membership, programming, etc. that happened during the membership year. Multiple copies of a yearbook in the collection indicate that at least one of the copies is annotated with these updates. Additions to the collection are...
Dates: 1894-2022

Records of AARP Chapter 1200, Nacogdoches, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0151
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of membership directories, board of directors meeting minutes, treasurer’s reports, and a scrapbook. The scrapbook also has copies of the “1200 Chapter Chatter” newsletter, 1998-1999.

Dates: Event: Donated 5/11/2012

Sabine Loan and Improvement Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0142
Dates: 1882-1928