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...

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Ledger lists customers' names, purchases and cost of those purchases. There is customer index at beginning of ledger.

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The collection consists primarily of photographs from the turn of the 20th century, but also includes death notices and correspondence.

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Business ledger of an unknown general store likely located in Shelby County, Texas. The ledger lists customers' names, their purchases, the price of those purchases, and also has a customer index in the front.

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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.

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The collection contains family photographs, legal documents, store ledgers and scrapbooks.

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This collection contains photographs of the Justus family and its ancestors. These photographs range from an early 1870s tin type to color photographs of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These photographs include mostly posed portraits, but also have some candid photos. Most of the subjects are couples or families, but there are some school and other individual photographs.

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of family letters and photographs for Neill family of Shelby County, Texas. The collection includes scholastic records (class notes, assigments, a diploma), genealogical materials (bible pages, newspaper clippings, obituaries), and financial records (account books, receipts, checks), as well as more than a dozen short stories written by Lela (Rhodes)Neill. Pedigree chart of frequently mentioned family members [1] Elias Mitchel...

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Founded in 1962, the Shelby County Historical Society works to collect and preserve items with local and regional historic value. This register lists names of visitors from 1966-1985.

Scope and Contents Part of the book contains a brief journal which appears to be a record of trips taken from 1895 to 1900 (author unknown). In the same handwriting are copied some inspirational thoughts. At the end of the book are several pages of a diary which begins with the announcement of the birth of Edward Boone Brackett, Jr. in 1905 and ends about 1912. There are very few entries and all have been written at some later time. The cash book is in very poor condition with many pages missing and others...

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Love letters from Richard Whiddon and Alice Lasseter. The letters contain day to day life, including people, parties, and church attendance.