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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:

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

Space Shuttle Columbia Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0132
Scope and Contents

The material in this collection consists of newspaper articles, oral history interviews, childrens artwork and photographs.

Dates: 2003-2013

Summer Hill Select School. Omen, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0001
Scope and Contents

Papers for the University of San Augustine, the Wesleyan Male and Female College, and the University of Eastern Texas are included in this collection; papers for the Masonic Institute are processed separately.

Dates: 1837-1900

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

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

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

Texas Centennial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0105
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1936

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

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

Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0106
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1986

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

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: -

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

The East Texas Timbertones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0155
Content Description

Sheet music, programs, cassette tapes, CDs

Dates: Event: Donated 10/20/2015

The International Poetry Institute, Inc. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0144
Scope and Contents The International Poetry Institute published 6 to 12 issues a year. Issues contain organizational information (names of officers and new members), announcements (of poetry contests, winners and programming), news, and examples of member poetry. A typical issue was typescript on colored paper and one to four pages long. This collection has an incomplete run of the newsletter. The newsletters in this collection are: vol.2 (nos.3-12), vol.3 (nos.1-11), vol.4 (no.1), vol.5 (nos.1-6),...
Dates: 1970-1978

Thursday Study Club, Alto, Texas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B-0006
Scope and Contents

Most of the collection consists of photocopies.

Dates: 1845-1980

Tyler County Judges Portrait Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0127
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of nine crayon 16 x 20 portraits of 19th century Tyler County, Texas County and District Court judges. All the portraits were done by Anderson Portrait and Frame Co., Elm Street, Dallas, Texas between June and October 1913.

Dates: 1913; Event: Donated 6/8/2011

Union/North Church Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: B-0139
Scope and Contents

The record book is 139 pages long and includes a list of male and female members, the church's articles of faith, covenant, and minutes. The book is handwritten in cursive.

Dates: 1839-1872

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