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Shelby County (Tex.) -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

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

Charles A. Manning Business Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: B-0124
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1916-1935

Denard Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0314
Content Description

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

Dates: Event: Donated 8/25/2016

General Store Ledger, Shelby County, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0121
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1890-1893

Holmes/Herndon and Stone/Young Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0271
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Event: Donated 11/11/2010

Marian Justus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0288
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Event: Donated 7/8/2013; Event: Addendum donated 09/25/2013

Neill, Powers and Rhodes Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0328
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...
Dates: Event: Donated 5/27/2016

Shelby County Historical Society Visitors Register

 Collection
Identifier: B-0122
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1966-1985

Shelby County, Texas, Cooperative Association (Patrons of Husbandry) Cashbook

 Collection
Identifier: B-0012
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...
Dates: 1890-1891

Whiddon-Lasseter Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0383
Content Description

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

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2022; 1901-1904