The Thomason Audio Visual Collection contains 41 individual audiocassette recordings. These audiocassette recordings include oral history interviews of several Huntsville and Walker County residents. The oral history interviews were recorded by Paul Culp, Charles Dwyer, and Dr. Gerald Holder. The collection also includes poetry readings, music, and radio broadcasts that concern Texas and past employees of Sam Houston State University.

This collection is composed of thirty-five letter-sized boxes of reports to the Board of Regents written by Sam Houston State Teachers/Sam Houston State College/Sam Houston State University Presidents from 1934 to 1993.

Presidents with written reports in this collection are Harry F. Estill, Charles Norton Shaver, Harmon L. Lowman, Arleigh B. Templeton, Elliott T. Bowers, and Martin J. Anisman.