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B. Business & Organizational Collection

 Classification
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:

Dilettante Club Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: B-0159
Content Description

The scrapbooks have newspapers clippings and programs of the clubs activities.

Dates: 1988-2012; Event: Donated 5/15/2014

Caddo Conference Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B-0152
Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2014; 1946-2013

Rusk County Democrat Newsletter Collection

 File
Identifier: B-0162
Content Description

The newsletter contains a political calendar of Rusk County Democratic Party events, informational items, exhortations to vote, humor, and editorials. Many of the editorials are written by Mr. Jones, who regularly extolled the working class virtues of Democrats and his perceived shortcomings of Republicans. --Excerpted from a letter accompanying the donation of the collection.

Dates: Event: Donated 9/20/2021

Beta Sigma Phi Chapters of Henderson, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0163
Scope and Contents This collection consists of nineteen scrapbooks, two songbooks, a charter for the Texas Zeta Theta Chapter, and loose materials from the various Henderson chapters of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority: Laureate Theta Omicron, Zeta Theta, Xi Nu Omicron, and Preceptor Nu Delta. The scrapbooks were created throughout and/or at the end of each year (as dated) to showcase what the chapter had accomplished and to celebrate the members. Contents of the scrapbooks include photographs, ephemera,...
Dates: Event: Donated 10/31/2016.; 1945-2016

Christ Episcopal Church Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0119
Arrangement

Arranged at the folder-level in 11 boxes. There are also several oversize items.

Dates: 1844-2004

Shelby County Historical Society Visitors Register

 Collection
Identifier: B-0122
Scope and Contents

Founded in 1962, the Shelby County Historical Society works to collect and preserve items with local and regional historic value. This register lists names of visitors from 1966-1985.

Dates: 1966-1985

Women's Auxiliary to Nacogdoches County Medical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0123
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the constitution and by-laws of the State Auxiliary, two publications tracing the history of the State and National Auxiliary and Yearbooks documenting the yearly meeting of the Nacogdoches chapter. Included in the yearbooks are a list of chapter presidents, officers, and committees, active members, meeting agenda, a presentation program and by-laws.

Dates: 1918-1963

Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: B-0095
Scope and Contents

Unknown Nacogdoches store account book showing customers’ accounts with prices for wine, butter, eggs, soap, shoes, whiskey, cloth, etc.

Dates: 1852-1853

Angelina and Neches River Railroad Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0020
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, operating and statistical reports, shipping rates, and other records of one of the oldest short line railroads in Texas.

Dates: 1914-1929

Army Administration School: Women's Army Corps Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: B-0029
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two volumes of large scrapbooks (about 27 x 18) entitled "WAAC Branch Number 1, Army Administration School, Nacogdoches, Texas, Volume 1" and "WAC Branch Number 1, Army Administration School, Nacogdoches, Texas, Volume 2." The scrapbooks are organized in near date order. Volume 1 spans Feb. 5, 1943 - Aug. 30, 1943 while Volume 2 covers Sept., 1943 - Feb. 10, 1944. Information about each class is usually presented together. The scrapbooks contain graduation programs...
Dates: 1943-1944

Baker Printing Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0045
Scope and Contents The collection consists of job work records and printing samples, mostly yearbooks and programs of various East Texas religious, civic, and cultural organizations. Some particularly interesting items include: The collection includes two phone directories for Nacogdoches in 1919 and 1920. These directories can be used to determine which individuals and businesses used telephones in Nacogdoches and also how far telephone services reached out into the rural...
Dates: 1925-1986

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: -

Cartwright Journals

 Collection
Identifier: B-0104
Scope and Contents

The collection is filled with accounting ledger, personal information and a few diary entries. About half the ledgers are accounts both settled and unsettled. There are also ledgers that contain orders that had yet to be filled. James Cartwright chronicled business matters in his ledgers.

Dates: 1877-1932; 1890s

Nacogdoches Archives Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0042
Scope and Contents Typescripts of official records created and accumulated at Nacogdoches during the Spanish and Mexican periods. Includes correspondence, decrees, orders, circulars, and other communications sent to the frontier from higher governmental authorities; correspondence of the commandant; correspondence and proceedings of the alcaldes and ayuntamiento of Nacogdoches; and records relating to adjacent territories of Anahuac, Attoyac, Ayish Bayou, Liberty, Neches, Sabine, San Augustine, and San Felipe....
Dates: 1731-1836; Event: Transcribed from 1928-1929

Nacogdoches Business Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: B-0071
Scope and Contents

Incomplete business journal from a business in Nacogdoches, with about 330 pages in a legible hand, recounting mercantile transactions and other business exchanges.

Dates: 1838-1844

Nacogdoches Chronicle Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0014
Scope and Contents

The two volumes show subscribers and amounts paid, other newspapers exchanged with the Chronicle, advertising accounts and accounts paid. Included are the names of many city and county residents.

Dates: 1866-1867

Nacogdoches Commission on Women and Families

 Collection
Identifier: B-0067
Scope and Contents

Bylaws, minutes, and correspondence of the Commission, which was organized in 1991,

Dates: 1991-1995

Miscellaneous Nacogdoches County Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0086
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of store accounts, receipts, drug store orders, several notes and leters, a stock certificate, and some matchbooks. Researchers might find the receipts in Folder 1 useful for identifying early 20th-century Nacogdoches businesses. The letter in Folder 9 about a slave named Jim trying to buy the freedom of himself and his family is also of research interest.

Dates: 1834-1926

Nacogdoches County Historical Survey Committee, Confederate Veterans Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0033
Scope and Contents

The collection includes newspaper clippings about the project; historical articles about the veterans; veteran's service records from the Texas State Archives and National Archives; cemetery records and other notes about veterans; correspondence of or about the veterans; and muster rolls and officer lists for Nacogdoches, Angelina, San Augustine, Rusk, and Galveston Counties.

Dates: 1861-1966

Nacogdoches County Postal Services Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0004
Scope and Contents

Collection includes history of Nacogdoches County Post Offices, newspaper articles, blueprints of the Nacogdoches Office, diagram of lock boxes, map of rural routes for Nacogdoches, and a box and key register.

Dates: 1846-1993