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Alpha Chi
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Scope and Contents
The collection begins with a minute book ranging in dates from 1924-1931. In addition to minutes, the book also contains documents on the society’s founding and correspondence. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, financial and business papers, the society newsletter (Alpha Chi Recorder), manuals, sponsor handbooks, constitution revisions, meeting minutes, recent conference T-shirts, audio cassettes, pins and pinning ribbon, a framed charter, and wood and metal printer’s...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1922-Current
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Belford Lumber Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0005
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of journals, artifacts, files, and documents related to the operation of the Belford Lumber Company.The most significant artifact is the C. S. Belford Master Carpenter’s Tool Chest. This tool chest was made by Belford for his Master Carpenter’s certification in the 1890s and was loaded on the wagon he drove to all building sites.Other materials in this collection include Contract Ledgers 1910–1924, Minutes from the stockholder meetings...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1890–1982
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Bertha McKee Dobie Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0027
Scope and Contents
The Bertha McKee Dobie Papers (1889 – 1986; 10.5 linear feet) include writings, publications, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other items documenting Mrs. Dobie’s life and work as an author, editor, and naturalist, as well as her role as the spouse of author J. Frank Dobie.The collection is organized in eleven series. Highlights of each series are listed.• Biographical Materials (1 box): Mrs. Dobie’s birth certificate, family history, and autobiographical...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890 - 1974
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Bertha McKee Dobie Correspondence
File
Identifier: MSS-0040
Scope and Contents
The Bertha Dobie Correspondence collection consists of one folder of correspondence, the majority of which is from Bertha Dobie to Edgar Kincaid, Jr., although a few letters are to and/or from other people. For example, there is one letter from Ray Pearl Condry to her aunt, as well as one letter to J. Frank Dobie from a man named Stan. The correspondence deals mostly with routine family matters, such as Edgar’s health and schooling, travels, finances, and J. Frank Dobie’s schedule. There are...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-06-03 - 1963-06-03
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Bruce Barrick Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0004
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, printed material including newsprint, membership lists, organizational manuals. Of particular note are the College Republican Organization Manual and the Organizational Structure of the Young Republican National Federation. The papers also contain Republican campaign memorabilia including posters, brochures and items from the 1968 Republican National Convention.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964 - 1975
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Campaign and Political Memorabilia Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0074
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection comprised of a wide range of policatal ephemera, including buttons, pins, bumper stickers, signs, tshirts, dolls, and hats from national, state, and local elections. These items date from 1960 to 2021, with the bulk of the ephemera dating from the 1980 to 2000s. Pins and buttons are the strength of the collection. They come from a variety of political campaigns. Most of the state election material concerns Texas.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960 - 2021
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Carl Hertzog Collection of Texas Boundaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0052
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of some early sample pages for Texas Boundaries, letters between Hertzog, Cisneros, and the Attorney General’s office, as well as some suggested illustrative ideas. The bulk of the collection is the twelve-part typescript complete with offprints of illustrations by Cisneros.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1946 - 1966
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Col. Harry James Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0046
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials Thompson gathered during research for his MA thesis: Senator John Goodwin Tower of Texas; an examination of events leading to his election in 1961 and his reelection in 1966. Thesis (M.A.) – University of Maryland, 1968. Southwestern University has a copy of the thesis. The papers include original and photocopies of materials Tower’s office and campaigns created, correspondence, interview notes, questionnaires, responses to questionnaires, and studies....
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1961–1968
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Comic Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1979 - 2022
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Committee For Better Schools: Georgetown, Texas
File
Identifier: MSS-0029
Scope and Contents
Materials related to the desegregation of Georgetown public schools.
Dr. Norman Spellman; Betty Spellman; Price Ashten; John Orgain; Harvey Miller;
Committee for Better Schools, minutes;
Georgetown Independent School District;
Carver School, minutes;
The Role of Southwestern University Faculty in the Desegregation of Georgetown’s Public Schools: 1962-1965, a presentation for Martin Luther King Day, 1997;
Information Bulletin by the Committee for Better Schools;
Committee for Better Schools,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1917 - 2003
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
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