Werner Family Collection
Scope and Contents
The Werner Family Collection (1839 – 2010; ten boxes) contains the personal correspondence,scrapbooks, journals, articles, obituaries, photographs, and documents of the Werner family of Huntsville,Texas. The correspondence includes letters concerning the Werner family and friends with specific instances regarding the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. The collection also includes many photographs of the Werner family and friends. Significant photographs include historic Werner family pictures, Robert A. Werner’s Air Force pictures, and Carolyn Werner’s travel pictures. Many of the family pictures contain images of the city of Huntsville in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dates
- 1839 - 2012
Conditions Governing Access
Some materials in this collection are restricted due to personal content. Restrictions are noted at the file level.
Conditions Governing Use
The materials represented in this finding aid have been made available for research, teaching and private use. For these purposes, you may reproduce (print, make photocopies, or download) these items without prior permission on the condition that you provide proper attribution of the source in all copies. Please contact the Newton Gresham Library's Special Collections and University Archives department to request permissions to reproduce materials for any other purpose, or to obtain information regarding the copyright status of a particular digital image, text, audio or video recording.
Extent
14 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, articles, obituaries, photographs, and documents. The correspondence is arranged chronologically. All other materials are arranged by person or subject. Approximately 50 envelopes that contained no provenance were shredded on June 26, 2014 by STS. Series 1: Family Materials Sub-series 1: Werner / Wright Correspondence Sub-series 2: Werner / Wright Family Materials Sub-series 3: Carolyn Werner's Travel Journals Sub-series 4: Carolyn Werner's Personal Journals (restricted) Series 2: Photographs
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Lynne Werner
General
Additional materials (yearbooks) acquired on 11/20/2014.
- American Red Cross
- Armed Forces
- Civil War Regiments
- Correspondence
- Government Documents
- Journals
- Legal Documents -- Receipts -- Ledgers -- Invoices -- Financial Records
- Military
- Newspapers
- Obituaries
- Periodicals
- Photographs
- Pilots
- SHSU
- Sam Houston Rotary Club
- Sam Houston State Teachers College - Alumni
- Sam Houston State University
- Scrapbooks
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- United States, Air Force
- Walker County (Tex.)
- Werner, Carol Lynne
- Werner, Carolyn Wright
- Werner, Robert A.
- World War I
- World War II
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1917-1918 -- United States
- Title
- Werner Family Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Trent Shotwell
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository