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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
Edward B. Burger Inauguration Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-2023-11-01-002
Dates:
2014 - 2020
Found in:
SU University Archives
F. D. Love Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0014
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence between F.D. Love and his wife Mellie (Lockett)Love, written between 1903 and 1910. The majority of these letters describe F.D. Love’s experiences as a Texas legislator, including his work on specific committees, the ad valorum tax, and the passage of the City Depository Bill, which he authored and proposed. These letters provide a candid look at many Texas politicians, such as Governor Lanham, Judge Glasscock, Senator Bailey, and J....
Dates:
1887 - 1923
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
Farley Snell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0031
Scope and Contents
Printed sermons and sermons in audio tape dating from 1978 to 1999. The papers also include the book that the university published at the time of his retirement, Sometimes a Surprising Word.
Dates:
1978-1999
Found in:
SU University Archives
First Earl of Anglesey Collection
Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS-0063
Abstract
This collection contains two receipts signed by the First Earl of Anglesey.
Dates:
1679
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
F.P. Ray Correspondence
Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-0075
Scope and Contents
Ray Correspondence. Letter from Wm. K. [Lambdin ?], P. E. of Oak Shade Home Chapel to Rev. R. P. Ray, [?] Spring, Arkansas; Methodist Church-Texas. Original and 1 photostatic copy. Letter refers at length to Civil War and describes Methodist conference at San Marcos. Includes list of district appointments decided at conference. Includes original and photostatic copy
Dates:
1863; Publication: Nov. 29, 1862 or 63
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
George W. Foster Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0041
Scope and Contents
The collection is almost exclusively correspondence, much of it between Dr. Foster and his second and third wives. The two largest folders are 1) Correspondence written from Dr. Foster to his second wife (Bettie) while Foster was in medical school in Louisiana, 1867-1869 and 2) correspondence between Foster and his future wife (Mattie), all written during 1873 when Hoskins lived in Oyster Creek, Brazoria County, Texas, and Foster resided in Wesley, Texas.Correspondence from...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1860 - 1922
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
G.W. McClanahan Sr. Paine Female Institute Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0033
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three folders that contain G.W. McClanahan Sr.’s correspondence dating from 1854 to 1857 concerning the Paine Institute, including three versions of an article he wrote about his journey from Virginia to Texas, a small bound notebook containing a curriculum and an attendance log from the 1855 Spring semester at the Paine Institute, a Bible questions and Answers booklet written by McClanahan’s son, G.W. McClanahan Jr., an article in the Lutheran newspaper The...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1854 - 1857
Found in:
SU Special Collections & Archives
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