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This collection is composed of a Sam Houston Normal Institue 1910 Alcalde, a Sam Houston State University 100-year celebration of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences postcard invitation, newspaper clippings of a poem and an Ella Smither Geriatric Center advertisement.

The paper materials within this collection were found in the Alcalde upon donation.

This collection is composed of five black and white photographs belonging to Jesse Kinard Burke. Two photographs are of SHNI's graduating class, two are of students and faculty when Burke taught at an institute for teachers, and one is of the students and faculty when Burke was the superintendent of a grade school.

The May Dee and Sarah Francis Smith Collection contain original materials from the sisters' time at Sam Houston Normal Institue and Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School. The materials from SHNI include diplomas, a Teachers Permanent Certificate, commencement programs, an official transcript, a song booklet, and a faculty portrait collage. The matriculated certificate is from the Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School.

Sam Houston Normal Institute students of the Class of 1919, including Daisy L. Smith, wrote reviews of books covering Sam Houston and his life.