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Collection
Identifier: UA-079
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials that lay out the rules, regulations and guidelines for living in university housing over a number of years. There is also material on different events held by the Residence Hall Association. The collection also contains a number of scrapbooks from Gibbs Hall.
Dates:
[1925]-2003
Collection
Identifier: B-0131
Scope and Contents
There are three distinct components to this collection. First, there are materials from three African American Masonic organizations (Dawn of Light Lodge no.79, Heroines of Jericho, White Swan Court no.148, and Order of the Eastern Star, Annie Jones Chapter no.114) and Camp no.71 of the American Woodmen of the World. Check receipt books, relief receipts, membership ledgers, minute books, dues payments, member correspondence, photographs, several broadsides, and other documents describe each...
Dates:
1843, 1893-2012
Collection
Identifier: A-0092
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, reports on the ministry, announcements of preaching, sermon notes, receipts, miscellaneous reports, lists, programs, and a memorandum book and diary of Arnold Rhodes. The memorandum book and diary relate Rhodes' often discouraging experiences as an itinerant minister traveling throughout Southeast Texas. The collection contains the minutes of the 21st annual meeting of the New Bethel Association. Also included are newspaper clippings about Arnold...
Dates:
1876-1941
Collection
Identifier: A-0365
Content Description
Letters, photographs, postcards, military manuals, masonic booklets, cookbooks, and other ephemera.
Dates:
Event: Donated 8/8/2016 by the First United Methodist Church of Nacogdoches; 1921-2002
Scope and Contents
The Richard S. Orton Collection consists of the photographs from two exhibits created by Orton and a series of 16 oral history interviews about African Americans in Nacogdoches County. The photographs capture authentic interactions between teachers and school children at several schools in Austin (1986-1990) and scenes of faith, family and life at Upshaw family reunions at County Line, an African American freedom colony in Nacogdoches County (1988-1998). The exhibit label text which appeared...
Dates:
Event: Donated 10/9/2008
Collection
Identifier: A-0358
Content Description
The collection consists of one Nacogdoches High School Scrapbook, letters and some educational related material.
Dates:
1929-1933; Event: Donated 1/13/2020
Collection
Identifier: A-0184
Scope and Contents
World War II booklet about the 5th Bomber Command during the move from Owi Airfield to the Island of Leyte.
Dates:
-
Collection
Identifier: A-0007
Scope and Contents
The first three boxes of the collection consist of typescripts and carbon copies mostly duplicates of material found in the R. B. Blake Collection of 93 bound volumes in the East Texas Research Center. In some cases the original documents from which the typescripts were made are in other collections in this Department.
Box 4 contains correspondence of Blake, L. W. Kemp, Lota M. Spell, Webb Roberts, John V. Singletary, W. Us Perkins, Addie Birdwell, Paul J. Folk, Lewis J. Wilson, and O. A....
Dates:
1791-1938; Event: Donated in 1938
Collection
Identifier: A-0174
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an April 1998 copy of Baker's manuscript "Timbered Again: The Story of the National Forests in Texas", and a copy of his 1956 doctoral dissertation.
Dates:
1956, 4/25/1998; Event: Donated in 1998
Collection
Identifier: A-0081
Abstract
Robert Wilson was a businessman, soldier in the Republic of Texas Army and congressman of Harrisburg, Texas. Photostats of Wilson's letters to his son, James Theodore Dudley Wilson, and some miscellaneous other documents.
Dates:
1835-1856
Collection
Identifier: A-0235
Arrangement
Boxes 1-8 (12 linear feet) do not have a defined intellectual hierarchy beyond the physical box/folder division of the collection. Box 9 (0.5 linear feet) is a 2012 addendum and arranged into 3 series:
1. Presidents (9 folders)
2. Politicians and Political Events (3 folders)
3. Miscellaneous (1 folder)
Dates:
1819-2000
Collection
Identifier: A-0331
Scope and Contents
A pair of scrapbooks, family photographs, genealogy materials, and a bomber jacket makes up the majority of this small collection. The scrapbooks have photographs, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and letters about Ross Fountain and other Nacogdoches men serving in World War 2. Researchers might find the bombing mission notes in Folder 2 interesting, as they list the date of the mission, the location targeted, the number of bombs, and their yield. Researchers may also like the rare class...
Dates:
Event: Donated 11/10/2016
Collection
Identifier: B-0039
Scope and Contents
The Rowlett Store Ledger contains customer account records from 1869 to 1873. The handwriting is very difficult to decipher in places, but some of the names mentioned in the ledger include B. A. Rowlett, W. E. Rowlett, James Swain, Sam Davis, Alford Arnold, Peter Lockett, Sam Atkinson, Nathan Hearns, Jesse Morse, J. G. Steele, Lemuel Campbell, and Gabe and Aaron Collins. Recipes and drafts or copies of letters are recorded on some pages of the ledger. The ledger also contains family records...
Dates:
1869-1979
Collection
Identifier: G-0006
Scope and Contents
Material in this collection mainly consists of correspondence during his time as a Texas state Congressman (1973-1978) and Senator (1978-1989).
Dates:
-
Collection
Identifier: A-0239
Scope and Contents
Six notebooks of essays, notebooks are indexed. Essays have been transcribed and published in book form.
Dates:
1906-1911, 1954-1955; Event: Donated in 2000
Collection
Identifier: A-0308
Scope and Contents
The letter in this collection is a plea from a man named Bob who asks Ruby to go away with him. The letter indicates that Ruby may have been in some sort of danger or possibly a victim of abuse. The letter is not dated and the writer gives only his first name.
Dates:
c.1919-1921
Collection
Identifier: A-0327
Content Description
The collection contains images of family, letters from wartime, and postcards from across the United States. The collection has information of generations of the Rulfs-Taylor families and their life in East Texas.
Dates:
Event: Received 12/18/2018
Collection
Identifier: A-0131
Scope and Contents
The collection includes land deeds as well as an original land grant to Nacogdoches University, signed by Governor Elisha M. Pease. Other papers in the collection are the passport of Heinrich Rusche from Oldenburg, naturalization papers of Francis Rusche, correspondence, and financial papers. Other Nacogdoches citizens mentioned in the papers are Bernard Witkorn, Frederick Voigt, Jacob Harlacher, Rinaldo Hotchkiss, and James H. Starr. Land papers of the Cherino and Santos Coy families are...
Dates:
1848-1895, 1987
Collection
Identifier: A-0200
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook (pages 1-70) consists of stories and other clippings from Rusk County, Texas newspapers as late as 1892. The daybook (pages 71-211) is from Henderson, Texas and records the accounts of various customers at a mercantile store, 1850-1851. This book is a photostat. The owner and location of the original copy is unknown.
Dates:
1850-1892; Event: Photostat of the original made 8/1966
Content Description
The newsletter contains a political calendar of Rusk County Democratic Party events, informational items, exhortations to vote, humor, and editorials. Many of the editorials are written by Mr. Jones, who regularly extolled the working class virtues of Democrats and his perceived shortcomings of Republicans. --Excerpted from a letter accompanying the donation of the collection.
Dates:
Event: Donated 9/20/2021
