Mae Wynne McFarland Research Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into five series: Series 1: Personal Correspondence contains letters, postcards, holiday cards, newspaper clippings,invitations, programs, receipts, and photographs. Series 2: Walker County/ Huntsville History includes correspondence, binders and journals of handwritten notes, typed notes, recipes, family trees, newspaper clippings, notes concerning marriage records and land records, census records, and the history of Cincinnati and the Yellow Fever epidemic. Series 3: Texas History includes Civil War History, with materials such as programs, handwritten notes,information on various Texas counties, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, brochures, receipts,correspondence, music books, periodicals, binders, and spiral notebooks filled with notes about Texas history. Series 4: War of 1812 contains extensive handwritten notes on loose papers. Series 5: Women and Charitable Organizations contains booklets, magazines, correspondence, and handwritten notes.
Dates
- 1856 - 1977
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
35 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The Mae Wynne McFarland Research Collection is housed in thirty-four archival boxes and one oversized flat box. The collection also contains 109 books located within the Thomason Room and in the Main collection.
- Biographies
- Bulletins
- Census
- Charities -- Charitable Organization
- Cincinnati (Tex.)
- Civil War Regiments
- Confederate States of America
- Correspondence
- Daughters of the American Revolution. Mary Martin Elmore Scott Chapter (Huntsville, Tex.)
- Daughters of the Republic of Texas
- Diseases -- Illnesses
- Epidemics
- Genealogy - Texas
- Ghost towns
- Ghost towns - Texas
- Historical Documents
- History -- Texas
- Holidays
- Huntsville (Tex.)
- Huntsville (Tex.) -- History
- Journals
- Legal Documents -- Receipts -- Ledgers -- Invoices -- Financial Records
- Letters
- Marriage Licenses
- McFarland, Mae Wynne, -1962
- Memoir
- Military
- Newspapers
- Notices
- Periodicals
- Photographs
- Pioneers
- Pioneers -- Texas
- Programs
- Scrapbooks
- Slavery
- Slavery -- Texas
- Soldiers
- Temperance
- Texas
- Texas -- History
- Texas -- Huntsville
- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- War of 1812
- Walker (county)
- Walker County (Tex.)
- Yearbooks
- Yellow fever
- Yellow fever -- Texas
- Title
- Mae Wynne McFarland Research Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michelle Rainey
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository