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Lantern Slides Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2015.s097

Scope and Contents Lantern slides were patented in 1850 by William and Frederick Langenheim. They began experimenting in the 1840s with the Magic Lantern to display colorful photographic images. Originallythey attempted to use daguerreotypes. Daguerreotypes are opaque, so the Langenheim brothers sought anew medium that could be projected. They took advantage of the works of Niépce de St. Victor, who discovered a process of adhering a light sensitive solution onto glass, which created a negative. The Langenheim...

Dates: 1898 - 1919; Undated

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Leon May Dunlap Biography of James Hunter Dunlap Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2014.s022

Scope and Contents

The Leon May Dunlap Biography of James Hunter Dunlap (no date; one legal folder) contains a 14 page typed biography on James Hunter Dunlap written by his wife, Leon May Dunlap. The biography was written and given to Sam Houston State Teachers College by Mrs. Dunlap. The collection also includes correspondence concerning the manuscript.

Dates: Other: Undated

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Lillian Otey Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2017.s159

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a copy of Lillian Otey’s autobiography.

Dates: 1927

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Lucy Mae Rix Collection

Collection

Identifier: UAC/25/2023.a014

Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of Lucy Mae Rix's teaching certificates from Sam Houston Normal Institue, her SHNI Transcipt of Record, and photographs of her elementary classes and Delta Kappa Gamma society members.

Dates: 1915 - 1918

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Lufkin Centennial Sketchbook Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2024.s290

Scope and Contents

This is a single-item collection that contains a series of sketches by Ralph Stuart.

Dates: 1982 - 1990

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Lula Myrtle Teague Cox Collection

Collection

Identifier: UAC/25/2023.a008

Scope and Contents

This collection is made up of twenty-five black and white photographs, a Sam Houston Normal Institute Diploma, a Sam Houston Normal Institute Commencement program, and a signed pillow cover from Lula Myrtle Teague Cox's childhood.

Dates: 1904 - 1906; 1914

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Lynn O. Primm Texarkana Newspaper Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2019.s213

Scope and Contents

The Lynn O. Primm Texarkana Newspaper Collection is composed of newspapers primarily from the Texarkana Daily News and Texarkana Gazette.

Dates: 1941 - 1944

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Mae Wynne McFarland Research Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2014.s063

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...

Dates: 1856 - 1977

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Mamie Wynne Cox Sam Houston Normal Institute and Historic Huntsville Booklets

Collection

Identifier: UAC/11/2024.a071

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of two copies of 1899 booklet "Sam Houston Normal Institute: Twenty Succesful Sessions, 1879 to 1899: Historic Huntsville, Its Growth and Progress for Sixty-Two years, from 1837 to 1899: Huntsville as a Trade Center." The booklets are 104 pages long and contain photographs and text about Sam Houston Normal Intitute (SHNI), Huntville, Texas, and the area's prominent individuals between 1837-1899. It additionally contains advertisements for Huntsville businesses in...

Dates: 1899

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

Map Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2012.s001

Scope and Contents

The Map Collection contains some original maps and many reproductions. Most maps are related to the US and Texas and date from the mid 19th century.

Dates: 1499 - 2005

Found in: Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives

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Lantern Slides Collection

Leon May Dunlap Biography of James Hunter Dunlap Collection

Lillian Otey Collection

Lucy Mae Rix Collection

Lufkin Centennial Sketchbook Collection

Lula Myrtle Teague Cox Collection

Lynn O. Primm Texarkana Newspaper Collection

Mae Wynne McFarland Research Collection

Mamie Wynne Cox Sam Houston Normal Institute and Historic Huntsville Booklets

Map Collection

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