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United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

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

Map Collection

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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

Newspaper Collection

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Identifier: THR/01/2014.s043
Scope and Contents

The Newspaper Collection consists mainly of Texas newspapers as well as several titles from other states.Also represented are Centennial and Civil War Newspapers. The Newspaper collection includes both original and copied versions.

Dates: 1792 - 2000

Page 9 and 10- Photographs and Family Ephemera

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Wilson Scrapbook and Materials Collection is comprised of a scrapbook, a box of glass slides, and a box of printed material related to the Wilson family of Walker County, Texas.Box one contains a 16 page scrapbook consisting of of photographs, newspaper articles, and cards. Box two contains four photographic glass slides and one glass slide fragment. Box three is comprised of seventeen stickers, five cards, four invitations, four tags, three newspaper articles, two programs...
Dates: 1933 - 1935; 1938 - 1939; 1941 - 1943; 1950; 1952

Peabody Memorial Library

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection is composed of five black-and-white photographs of Sam Houston Normal Institute's campus buildings.

Dates: Circa 1919-1924

SHSTC, December 1960

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The materials in this collection are composed of 175 separate issues of the Alumnus Magazine.

Dates: December 1960

SHSTC, February 1961

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The materials in this collection are composed of 175 separate issues of the Alumnus Magazine.

Dates: February 1961

SHSTC Austin Hall and the Industrial Arts Building, January 23, 1980

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection is composed of forty-four colorized, color, and black-and-white postcards from 1906-2000 depicting Sam Houston Normal Institute, Sam Houston State Teachers College, and Sam Houston State University.

Dates: January 23, 1980

SHSU Austin Hall

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection is composed of forty-four colorized, color, and black-and-white postcards from 1906-2000 depicting Sam Houston Normal Institute, Sam Houston State Teachers College, and Sam Houston State University.

Dates: 1906 - 2000

The Texana Documents Collection

 Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2014.s068
Scope and Contents The manuscript collection begins with the personal papers of Henderson Yoakum, who wrote the first comprehensive history of Texas. They include a muster roll from his Cherokee campaign, discharge orders and payment authorizations for his troops, as well as Yoakum’s license to practice law. The Texana Documents collection also contains papers and letters related to early Texas, primarily focusing on annexation issues, during the period from 1842-1845. In the Correspondence section, Governor...
Dates: 1837 - 1961