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This collection contains materials from the Sam Houston State University Bearkitten Academy Childcare Center.

Please note that this collection has been audited using the SHSU Records Retention Schedule and may not contain all records for the Bearkitten Academy Childcare Center.

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The materials in this box are made up of commencement programs, a diploma, and a transcript of record booklet from Sam Houston Normal Institue and Sam Houston State College; belonging to Bettie Hayman.

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The materials within this collection are mainly made up of black and white mounted photographs, along with letter correspondence, print-out email correspondence, and a photocopy of a newspaper article.

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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.

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The materials in this collection consist of photographs, letters, college notes and notebooks, a short college diary, instructional books, college certificate, and diplomas belonging to Jewell Phillips Herzog.

A large portion of the collection consists of correspondence in the form of letters between Jewell and a college friend, Ray L. Alexander.

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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.

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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.

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This collection is composed of three black and white matted photographs of Maude Alexandra Noyes' (Miller) time at Sam Houston Normal Institue. The collection originally had four photographs, but one is missing.

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,...

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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.