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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 148 Collections and/or Records:

Masonic Institutes, San Augustine, Texas Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0003
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, bills, term reports, enrollment and attendance records, records of the Board of Trustees, teacher contracts, educational philosophy, and curricula of the two schools

Dates: 1851-1859

Miscellaneous Angelina County Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0083
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a deed, several tax receipts and a pair of sheriff's wanted broadsides. These are miscellaneous loose items collected over the years.

Dates: 1865, 1905, 1909-1910

Miscellaneous Jefferson County Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0084
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a petroleum stock certificate. It is a miscellaneous loose item collected over the years.

Dates: undated

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

Miscellaneous Nacogdoches County Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0085
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection are Nacogdoches Co. deeds for miscellaneous citizens. There are also land documents, promissory notes, field notes, broadsides for land or fugitives from the law, power of attorney and other probate documents, and entrance certificates. Researchers might find the entrance certificates, which are all from 1835 and in Spanish; and a pair of small broadsides from 1890-1891 for fugitives wanted for murder, of particular interest.

Dates: 1837-1898

Miscellaneous Newton County Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0087
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a pair of Newton County tax receipts.

Dates: 1864

Miscellaneous San Augustine County Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0088
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of miscellaneous San Augustine County items acquired and collected over the years. There are several kinds of receipts and some ballots for a pair of county elections.

Dates: 1928-1977

Modern Era of Praetorians Council #675 Fee Book

 Collection
Identifier: B-0075
Arrangement

One fee book (4 pages).

Dates: -; Event: Donated 9/1984

Nacogdoches and Southeastern Railroad Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0058
Scope and Contents

The types of materials in this collection include correspondence, legal documents, minutes book of Board of Directors and Stockholders meetings (1905-1930), payroll records, newspaper clippings, annual reports, schedules, and financial ledgers.

Dates: 1903-1965; Event: Donated 1934; Event: Addendum donated 3/31/1955; Event: Addendum donated 12/9/1992; Event: Addendum donated 2/1/1996

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 and Professional Women's Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-062
Dates: Event: Donated 1/13/1994; Event: Addendum donated 11/15/1995

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

Nacogdoches County Courthouse Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0034
Scope and Contents The records in this collection are from the Nacogdoches County civil court and criminal courts. Civil court records include civil cases, tax inventories, lists of taxable property, bonds, Board of Land Commissioner oaths and other records, survey files, receipts for field notes, writs of habeas corpus, land records, naturalization papers, inquest records, estray papers, and audited accounts. There are also personal and business records for A. A. Nelson. Criminal court records are court...
Dates: 1787-1879

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