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Jane Howe Gregory Papers
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2013.s010
Scope and Contents
The items in this collection represent Jane Howe Gregory’s extensive research into the Texas Penitentiary system, primarily focusing on issues surrounding female inmates. Journal articles, class notes, and prison records are the most common types of materials in this collection. Prison statistics and prison reforms pertaining to female prisoners are the most common themes.
Dates:
1705 - 1999
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
Thornton Papers
Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2014.s070
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 13 letters written by Margaret Thornton of Huntsville, Texas, to various relatives in her native England, plus two additional letters by other family members writing from overseas.The Thornton letters describe daily life and events in East Texas, especially Walker County and Huntsville, as interpreted by a recent immigrant from England. Among her descriptions are the yellow fever epidemic of 1867, a fire and fire control (a bucket brigade), and martial law...
Dates:
1861 - 1869
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