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Box 2

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Newspaper clippings (25 items), 1942-1959

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings from the 'Daily Sentinel', of Johnnie May Sparks Wyres column "Thinking out Loud"; clippings about topics of historic interest; articles about Old North Church; and clippings concerning members of the Sparks family.

Dates: 1942-1959

Newspaper clippings (17 items), 1952-1959

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings; Old North Church; homecoming program (1959); announcements; list of early pastors; a peg hit, "Old North Church"; essays by Johnnie May Sparks Wyres; and petition by descendants of Isaac Reed to have his body removed to Old North Church cemetery.

Dates: 1952-1959

Advertisement, programs and brochures (7 items), 1940-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Nacogdoches Sanitarium advertisement; program for historical evening at Nacogdoches High School auditorium; invitation to commissioning of the USS Alamo and to presentation of portrait to the Texas Senate; and brochures for Washington-on-the-Brazos, State Capitol building and State Democratic committee.

Dates: 1940-1956

Newspaper clippings and program (7 items), 1955-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings about the Sons of the Republic of Texas and the Knights of San Jacinto; and program of investiture service and dinner for the SRT and the KSJ.

Dates: 1955-1956

Dedications, programs, yearbook and newspaper clippings (34 items), 1951-1957

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Programs for memorial services and dedications of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas; 1951 yearbook of the Anson Jones Chapter, Mt. Pleasant; and newspaper clippings concerning statewide activities of the DRT.

Dates: 1951-1957

Photographs (21 items), 1907-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Photographs of some Sparks family members (many unidentified); Nacogdoches postcards of a historical elm tree, the Old Stone Fort and the downtown about period of World War I; and a postcard of the Vernis Fulmer Quartet with Dick Fairchild.

Dates: 1907-1956

Notebooks (3 items)

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

A grocery story ledger with charges to Nacogdoches citizens (1939); a notebook with notations pertaining to Texas land ownership; and a notebook with recipes and formulas for various ailments.

Dates: 1901-1971