Scope and Contents

The collection contains one large 1991 annual 'broadside' poster for The Book Club of Texas, featuring a painting of Big Bend National Park, two smaller annual broadsides, and a typed letter from club discussing the creation of the Big Bend broadside.

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....