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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 149 Collections and/or Records:

University Women's Club, Nacogdoches, Texas Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-063
Dates: 1939-2014

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 Newton County Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0087
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1864

Minton & Minton Legal Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0101
Dates: -

Shaw’s Department Store Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0102
Scope and Contents

Business records of the store, including cash journal sheets and receipts of goods purchased for the store.

Dates: 1952-1986

Elmer Hill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0116
Scope and Contents

The collection of materials consists of plat maps, field notes and other information accumulated by Elmer Hill, his father, H. C. Hill and his father’s predecessor, W. T. Harlson who worked in the 1800’s in Tyler, San Augustine and Nacogdoches counties.

Dates: -

Texas State Genealogical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0117
Scope and Contents

Materials include First Families Certificate applications, Gone to Texas applications, and office files

Dates: -

Airline Motor Coaches Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0125
Scope and Contents

The collection, which ranges from 1920-1983, is primarily composed of reunion photographs, industry newspapers, and company forms. There are also 10 bus schedules from the 1930s and 40s, reunion correspondence, a guest register, journal articles and several scrapbooks.

Dates: 1920-1983

Texas State Teacher's Association, East Texas Chapter Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0126
Scope and Contents

The collection features programs from the annual convention, faculty notices and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1934-1973

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

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

Flora Garden Club, Nacogdoches, Texas, Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0094
Arrangement

111 items organized in 1 clamshell box across 18 folders.

Dates: 1949-2002

Pines Garden Club

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

Four Seasons Garden Club, Nacogdoches, Texas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0103
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks of club activities and four yearbooks.

Dates: 1970-1998

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

Lamp-Lite Theatre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0056
Dates: 1976-1995

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 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 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