Robert A. Gammage Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2015.s096

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Robert A. Gammage Collection (1956-2016; fifty five boxes) contains materials relating to the personal life and political career of Robert A. Gammage. These materials include documents, articles,publications, campaign materials, advertisements, audiocassettes, videocassettes, photographs, and correspondence. This collection has educational certificates and documents related to Robert A.Gammage’s formal education. The collection contains many books and publications on past U.S. and Texas political leaders. The majority of the documents in the collection relate to Gammage’s officialbusiness as a public servant, including his professional correspondence along with other state and federal information. A large portion of the collection includes campaign correspondence, promotional flyers,posters, and advertisements from Robert A. Gammage’s various campaigns for state and federal public office along with promotional campaign materials for Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, and Barak Obama. The hundreds of photographs that are part of the collection picture Gammage and his colleagues from the 1960s through the 2000s, showing him with the Texas House of Representatives, Texas Senate, United States Congress, Texas Court of Appeals, and Texas Supreme Court.

Dates

Creation: 1956 - 2012

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

55 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection contains documents, articles, publications, campaign materials,advertisements, audiocassettes, videocassettes, photographs, and correspondence documenting the personal and political life of Robert A. Gammage of Texas. The Robert A. Gammage Collection is divided into three series. The first series contains Robert A. Gammage’s personal materials that include biographical information, personal correspondence, personally authored pieces, educational documents,and legal work. The second series of the collection holds Robert A. Gammage’s professional and political materials. The third series in the collection contains audio visual materials including photographs,audiocassette tapes, VHS cassettes, and oversized political scrapbooks.