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Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2017.s150
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photo from a reunion of men from Huntsville Texas, and an attached article from The Huntsville Item regarding the reunion.
Dates:
Other: Undated
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2024.s279
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials on the history and development of Huntsville, Texas, from its early beginnings in the 19th century up to the 21st century. It contains newspaper clippings, copies of book chapters, publications, photographs, and personal correspondence.
Dates:
1800 - 2022
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2022.s245
Dates:
1885 - 2010; Undated
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2015.s086
Scope and Contents
Many photographs within the collection have been acquired by former Special Collections Librarians. Some can be found in the Times & Places Collection at the following link:
http://walkercountytreasures.com/thumbnails.php?album=10
Other photographs within the collection have been collected from individual donors and the Walker County Historical Commission.
Dates:
1907 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: UAC/25/2023.a016
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1910; 1985; 2009
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2024.s293
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a 'Mittimus' document from the Southern Indian Territory Courts for the conviction and sentencing of Bob Gordon.
Dates:
1903-04-25
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2013.s015
Scope and Contents
The materials that make up this collection portray J. Frank Dobie’s interests in and contributions to the Texas Folklore Society. The predominant themes are Texas folklore and culture, cattle branding, Dobie’s time in England as a professor at Cambridge and his World War I experiences.Materials consist of newspaper clippings, correspondence, information on cattle brands (including hand drawn illustrations of brands) and various publications both by and about J. Frank Dobie....
Dates:
1910 - 2006
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2014.s072
Scope and Contents
The J. Mark Smither War Letters (1861 - 1881; 1 book) includes family correspondence, newspaper clippings and a poem relating his experience fighting in the Civil War. The letters in this collection are mainly between J. Mark Smither and his mother, brother, uncle and sister. The letters include details about J. Mark Smither’s health, the weather conditions and the encounters of the members of the Hood’s Brigade; including information on any soldiers that were wounded and those who died....
Dates:
1861 - 1881
Collection
Identifier: UAC/21/2023.ao21
Scope and Contents
This collection is mainly composed of James Gilliam Gee's biographical materials along with his wife, Cecile Gibbs Gee's guest book.
Dates:
1935; 1938; 1940 - 1946; 1967; 1982
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2012.s005
Scope and Contents
The materials that make up this collection represent the life and work of James Van Benschoten Bennett. More specifically, the materials portray his role as the second Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and as a prolific prison reformer. The most popular theme represented in the collection is prison policy and reform – which is often discussed in articles and speeches composed by Bennett. The collection also contains numerous correspondence and case histories of prison inmates. Pictorial...
Dates:
1905 - 1971
