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 147 Collections and/or Records:

Hodges, Greve, Pierce Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0111

Scope and Contents The documents (ranging from 1830s-1970s) consist of the papers belonging to the three attorneys who practiced at the firm, and were acquired from the clearing out of the former office of Judge Jack Pierce, the last attorney to practice at the firm. The collection includes letters, correspondence, land deeds, timber deeds, oil and gas leases, debt collection, civil court cases, criminal court cases, estate matters, various miscellaneous legal matters, maps, and approximately five photographs...

Dates: 1830-1970

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Harris Hardware Records

Collection

Identifier: B-0110

Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of business ledger books and invoices. There is a single letter written to John Reagan Harris in the collection. This collection is a great resource for researchers looking information on 1950s businesses in Shelby County businesses in the 1950s, many of whom purchased products from the Harris hardware store branches. Researchers might also be interested to look at the geographic diversity of products being sold by a hardware store in 1950s East Texas.

Dates: 1923, 1942-1955, 1983-1990; Event: Donated circa 2000-2005

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Caddo Conference Papers

Collection

Identifier: B-0152

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2014; 1946-2013

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Center Woman's Reading Club Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0128

Scope and Contents The Center Woman’s Reading Club Collection documents a century’s worth of the club’s civic and social activities. The collection contains a variety of materials, including but not limited to: club histories, certificates, correspondence, minutes books, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, thank-you notes, and yearbooks. Items researchers might find of particular interest include yearbooks dating back to 1916, minutes books beginning in 1906, several years of...

Dates: 1906-2010; Event: Donated 9/30/2011

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Cum Concilio Club Collection

Collection

Identifier: B-0019

Scope and Contents The collection contains the official records of the Club including the constitution, by-laws, correspondence, minute books, and treasurer's book as well as newspaper clippings, yearbooks, and scrapbooks. Club members often annotated their yearbooks with changes to membership, programming, etc. that happened during the membership year. Multiple copies of a yearbook in the collection indicate that at least one of the copies is annotated with these updates. Additions to the collection are...

Dates: 1894-2022

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Rusk County Historical Association

Collection

Identifier: B-0025

Scope and Contents

There are two parts of the collection: the Rusk County Collection and the Vinzent papers, the latter being photostats of the originals in the possession of Mr. Sam Ross of Mt. Enterprise (1962).

Dates: 1843-1965

Found in: East Texas Research Center