B. Business & Organizational Collection

Classification

Identifier: B

Staff Only

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 146 Collections and/or Records:

Shelby County, Texas, Cooperative Association (Patrons of Husbandry) Cashbook

Collection

Identifier: B-0012

Scope and Contents Part of the book contains a brief journal which appears to be a record of trips taken from 1895 to 1900 (author unknown). In the same handwriting are copied some inspirational thoughts. At the end of the book are several pages of a diary which begins with the announcement of the birth of Edward Boone Brackett, Jr. in 1905 and ends about 1912. There are very few entries and all have been written at some later time. The cash book is in very poor condition with many pages missing and others...

Dates: 1890-1891

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Sons of the American Revolution, Texas Society, Fredonia Chapter, Nacogdoches Records

Collection

Identifier: B-0068

Scope and Contents

General information regarding the Chapter, applications for membership, and the chapter newsletter.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/24/1996

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

San Augustine Education Institutions Records

Collection

Identifier: B-0002

Scope and Contents

Charter, catalogs (1878-1899), A. W. Orr (founder and principal) Memorial Society materials, school booklets and publications and other items relating to the school

Dates: 1878-1968

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Texas Association of College Teachers, SFASU Chapter Records

Collection

Identifier: B-0057

Scope and Contents

Constitution, minutes, correspondence, publications and other records relating to the SFA Chapter and the State Association of TACT.

Dates: 1949-1992

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Texas Attorney General Nacogdoches County Bonds Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0061

Scope and Contents

Contains Nacogdoches County schoolhouse bonds. A few waterworks and sewer system, electric light system, airport, street improvement, road, bridge, and refunding bonds are also included.

Dates: 1930-1942

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Texas Centennial Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0105

Scope and Contents

The collection contains material published for the celebrating of Texas’ Centennial.

Dates: 1936

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Texas Farm Products Company Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0052

Scope and Contents

Nacogdoches company founded in 1930, by M. S. Wright, Texas Farm Products was built as a fertilizer and feed manufacturing company. Collection includes an almanac, photographs, calendar, newsletters, and newspaper clippings about the company

Dates: 1945-1975

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0106

Scope and Contents

The collection contains material published for the celebrating of Texas’ Sesquicentennial

Dates: 1986

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Texas Summer Normal Examination Records

Collection

Identifier: B-0023

Dates: 1894

Found in: East Texas Research Center

R. M. Thomson Company letter books

Collection

Identifier: B-0017

Scope and Contents

Blotter book copies of personal and business correspondence, including the Thomson and Donman Company in Austin, Texas. The correspondence is both typed and handwritten.

Dates: 1878-1925

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Thursday Study Club, Alto, Texas Papers

Collection

Identifier: B-0006

Scope and Contents

Most of the collection consists of photocopies.

Dates: 1845-1980

Found in: East Texas Research Center

United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0093

Scope and Contents

The scrapbooks contain information and activities of the Henry C. Hancock Chapter.

Dates: 1974-2002

Found in: East Texas Research Center

United Friends of Temperance, Fairview Council, Nacogdoches, Texas Minute Book

Collection

Identifier: B-0037

Scope and Contents The minute book lists council members from December 12, 1885 to May 30, 1886 and gives reports on council meetings, briefly outlining activities, officer elections, and treasury records. Speeches, essays, and thesis were presented at most meetings. A portion of the book contains writings on educational topics and these may have been the texts for some of the programs presented. Toward the end of the book there is an undated reference to the break up of the council and how funds left in the...

Dates: 1885-1886

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Velasco, Texas Papers

Collection

Identifier: B-0005

Scope and Contents

Photocopy of the Treaty of Velasco, menus, wine lists and regulations of The Velasco Hotel, material relating to the Brazos River Channel and Dock Company and to the Velasco Improvement Company.

Dates: 1836-1936

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Veterans of World War I, Nacogdoches Barracks Records

Collection

Identifier: B-0040

Scope and Contents

The collection includes the original handwritten or typed minutes and mailing list from each meeting. Photocopies have been made of all originals and are located at the end of the collection. A total of 139 photos relating to World War I are included in the collection.

Dates: 1917-1977

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Swift Brothers & Smith Drug Store Ledgers

Collection

Identifier: B-0129

Scope and Contents

This collection of 13 receipt books from the Swift Brothers and Smith Inc. drugstore covers the years from 1950 to 1960 (excluding 1954).

Dates: 1950-1960

Found in: East Texas Research Center

ETRC Postcard Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0073

Scope and Contents This collection contains postcards from various people and their travels, mainly in the State of Texas, but also some from various other states. The various places included in this postcard collection include Stephen F. Austin State University, Main Street Nacogdoches, The Old Stone Fort, Huntsville, Jefferson, Diboll, Center, San Augustine, Toledo Bend, and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. This collection also has places such as Sabine County and the Hoya Library and Museum. Many of...

Dates: 1908-1970

Found in: East Texas Research Center