May Benson Lyle Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: UAC/25/2023.a004

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The May Benson Lyle Scrapbook contains Fifty-six (front and back) unnumbered pages with forty-nine black and white photographs (one each on the front and back covers of the scrapbook) recording May Benson Lyle's time as a student at Sam Houston Normal Institute from 1905-1908.

The images in the scrapbook are of campus buildings such as Austin Hall, Old Main Building, and the Peabody Memorial Library. There are also images of faculty members such as Ida Lawrence, Sue Smither, Professor Coleman, Professor Henry Fishburne Estill, Joseph (Joe) Pritchett, and his brother President Henry Carr Pritchett. Additional images show May Benson Lyle and her friends at the boarding house they lived in while attending Sam Houston Normal Institute.

Dates

Creation: 1905 - 1908

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

1 Volumes (Tan flat archival box.) : Red clothed scrapbook with a metal clasp hinge. The front and back covers of the scrapbooks are faded in some areas. ; 10 x 8"

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The May Benson Lyle Scrapbook contains fifty-six (front and back) unnumbered pages with forty-nine black and white photographs (two on the front and back cover of the scrapbook) recording May Benson Lyle's time as a student at Sam Houston Normal Institute from 1905-1908.

The materials were arranged in the scrapbook by May Benson Lyle.

Physical Location

Located in the University Archives, Newton Gresham Library, room 400.

Bibliography

May Benson was born on August 22, 1888, in Dickerson, Texas. She attended Sam Houston Normal Institute in Huntsville, Texas, from 1905-1908 and was a member of the SHNI graduating class of 1907-1908.

On December 31, 1908, May married Joseph W. Lyle. Joseph W. Lyle taught in public schools in Trinty, Texas. They moved to Houston sometime after 1910. Joseph and May Benson Lyle were parents to Joseph Jr., Harry, and Margie.

May Benson Lyle died in Dickerson, Texas, during the worldwide flu pandemic on October 19, 1918. She is buried in Dickerson Cemetery, Dickerson, Galveston County, Texas.

Physical Description

The 10 x 8" red clothed scrapbook has a metal clasp hinge. The front cover of the scrapbook has a black-and-white photograph of the Old Main Building. Parts of the scrapbook's front cover and the Old Main Building photograph have pencil markings. The back of the scrapbook has a black-and-white photograph of the Peabody Memorial Library. Most of the photograph is torn. Both the front and back covers have areas where the cloth is faded.