Nacogdoches (Tex.) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
A. J. Holt Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0303
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a song about Nacogdoches and and a miscellaneous speech.
Dates:
Event: Donated before 1974
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Anna Raguet Garden Club Papers
Collection
Identifier: B-0092
Scope and Contents
The bulk of materials in this collection pertain to the Anna Raguet Garden Club, Nacogdoches Council of Garden Clubs and Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., District III. Anna Raguet Garden Club records include letters, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs and negatives, scrapbooks, and yearbooks. Bank statements, check registers and receipts document the club’s expenses and community projects. Nacogdoches Council documents in the collection are guidelines, results and rules for the...
Dates:
1937-2002; Event: Donated 7/11/2016
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Archie P. McDonald Manuscript of Adolphus Sterne Diary, 1838-1851
Collection
Identifier: A-0109
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of McDonald's draft manuscript, including chapter notes, to HURRAH FOR TEXAS! THE DIARY OF ADOLPHUS STERNE 1838-1851, published by Texian Press in 1969. The manuscript does not include the index or bibliography printed in the published version.
Dates:
c.1968
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Hall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0368
Scope and Contents
There are a wide range of materials in the Hall Family Collection. In the personal and family correspondence there are court records, diary entries, holiday cards, letters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, poetry, postcards, sympathy cards, and telegrams. The business records in the collection often consist of accounts, bills, ledger books, letters, memos, minutes, notes, promissory notes, receipts, and reports. Leisure and travel are most often documented with booklets, brochures,...
Dates:
Event: Donated 11/2/2019
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Haltom-Meisenheimer Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0087
Scope and Contents
Giles M. Haltom's essay on Nacogdoches in 1876 has a lot-by-lot description of buildings and houses and their occupants. It also includes together newspaper clippings on historical subjects which were collected and compiled into a scrapbook by Mrs. George Meisenheimer. Subjects covered include the history of Nacogdoches, the historical old elm tree, the Hart Hotel, Thomas J. Rusk's gravesite, the Old Stone Fort, Richard Fields and the Fredonia Rebellion, and Christ Episcopal Church. Persons...
Dates:
1900-1902, 1926, 1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Henry T. Curl Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0013
Scope and Contents
These papers include Civil War letters from Henry Curl to his wife, Julia, and one to her brother, Lawrence S. Taylor. The letter to Lawrence is quite long and gives an extremely detailed and interesting account of Henry's experiences in the war.
Dates:
1832-1931; Event: Donated in 1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Lois Foster Blount Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0107
Scope and Contents
The Lois Foster Blount Papers consist mostly of historical research materials with an emphasis on early Texas history, the Texas Revolution, and the Republic of Texas. About a fourth of the collection pertains to Thomas J. Rusk. Included are correspondence, biographical and genealogical materials, notes and excerpts from manuscript and printed sources, calendars and translations of some Bexar and Nacogdoches Archives. Also included are copies of legal papers and land papers, manuscripts of...
Dates:
221 BCE-1980; Event: Donated in 1982
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Nacogdoches History Collection
Collection
Identifier: B-0145
Dates:
1936-1981
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Old Nacogdoches University Building
Collection
Identifier: B-0141
Dates:
c.1940s-1998
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
The Rusk Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: A-0030
Scope and Contents
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
Event: The Thomas J. Rusk Letters (59 originals, 1 photocopy) were loaned from 6/24/1975 to early 2005.; Event: Purchased by the University 9/26/2016.; Event: Purchased materials received by the ETRC 10/10/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 10/24/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 1/23/2017.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 3/15/2017.
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Villa Belle Scogin Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0307
Dates:
1903-2015
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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