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Robert Gibbs Mood Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0062
Abstract This collection encompasses the personal records of Robert Mood, a Methodist circuit rider based in North Texas, whose active pastoral service spanned from 1890 to 1940. Notably, the latter part of his life was marked by a transition to more clerical duties. Between 1894 and 1912, Mood traversed the open roads, dedicating himself to preaching and establishing congregations in rural areas of the state. A distinctive feature in his journals is the evolution of his responsibilities, with a...
Dates: 1894 - 1938

Ruth Goddard Jackson Collection

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: MSS-0064
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and other materials related to Ruth Goddard Jackson.

Dates: 1930 - 1969

Schier-Gross Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0065
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to the Schier-Gross Family. The majority of the collection is made up of photographs from the late 1800s to the early 1930s. Very few subjects in the photographs have been identified. The collection also contains a few documents, postcards, advertising ephemera, and stereographs.

Dates: 1880 - 1930

Lillian Parks Steele Collection of Hoch Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0051
Scope and Contents This collection has a variety of papers in relation to the lineage of Lillian Parks Steele, specifically the Schwabs and the Hochs. The papers include land documents and legal documents of the earliest immigrants in her family history, papers “in the matter of Josie Schwab,” bills, checks and receipts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and notes and a book draft written by Steele. There is also one folder that contains photographs and prints of various family members as well as one of the...
Dates: 1845 - 2003

Steelman, Edmund - Fossil and Artifact Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0023
Dates: no date

Stone Photography Studio

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0053
Abstract This collection consists of photographs taken by Robert James Stone during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Stone owned and operated a studio in Georgetown, Texas from 1896 to 1942. Marketed as “Southwestern’s Photographer,” he captured hundreds, possibly thousands, of photographs of Southwestern University’s campus, faculty, and students, and was hired to photograph many of the university’s organizations and events. This collection of nearly 400 photographs primarily...
Dates: 1893 - 1934

Sue Stanford Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0022
Dates: 1912-1995

[Texas Public Education]

 Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS-0080
Scope and Contents Typed transcript Report of the Committee on Organization from the Galveston Conference on Education, April 1870; Acts of the Thirteenth Legislature 'To establish and maintain a system of Public Free Schools in the State of Texas.', 1873. Mood Scrapbook has an actual 1873 version (in mylar sleeve at back of volume 3) of 'Acts of thirteenth legislature. An act to establish and maintain a system of public free schools in the state of Texas.' It has 'Thrall from Stockbridge' written at the top....
Dates: Publication: Majority of material found in 1870, 1873; Copyright: Majority of material found in 1870-1873

The Anne Cole Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0007
Scope and Contents Materials in this collection consist of papers dealing with the 1960 and 1966 campaigns, a large scrapbook of the 1966 campaign, and a red vinyl briefcase use by the women involved in Tower’s campaign effort. The “Vote for Tower” scrapbook chronicles the 1966 Campaign with campaign literature (posters, flyers, mailers, bumper stickers, and lapel buttons), newspaper clippings, and form letters to different voter groups such as Oilmen for Tower and Aggies for Tower. This collection also has...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1960 - 1978

The Ladder

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0068
Dates: 1957 - 1968