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Benson Family Scrapbooks and PapersA Preliminary Inventory of the Collection
Biographical NoteFlorence Brownlee Benson is the granddaughter of one of the original four pioneer families that settled Cherokee County and Jacksonville in East Texas. She was a member of the Junior League of Austin. Walter S. Benson Jr. was born in 1917 in Austin. He graduated from Austin High School and the University of Texas. Walter worked at W. S. Benson Publishers, an educational book publishing company started by his father in 1918. Walther and Florence had two children, Barbara Bolton and Walter Scott III. Barbara Bolton Benson graduated from Austin High School, attended Marjorie Webster and the College of Artesia. She was a 1967 debutante and a member of the Junior League and the Cotillion Club. Barbara married Gary Emerson Duck in 1971. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThe bulk of the collection consists of two scrapbooks. One of the scrapbooks highlights Frances Benson's involvement in the Junior League of Austin and her participation in many of the fashion shows held by the organization during the 1950s and 1960s. The scrapbook also contains clippings from the Austin society pages that mention Frances and her husband Walter S. Benson, Jr. The second scrapbook is a collection of all the photographs, newspaper clippings and ephemera collected during Barbara Benson's debutante year. Barbara "was presented to Austin society at the annual Presentation Ball at the Driskill Hotel" in December of 1967. Some of the items in the scrapbook are annotated by Barbara. Items that were not secured in the scrapbook were removed and put in folders. The majority of this removed material is cards and invitations. In addition to the scrapbook there is a small amount of financial documentation pertaining to the purchase of stock of The Driskill Hotel Corporation in 1971. There is also a limited amount of correspondence and other ephemera from Congressman J. J. Pickle (Frances's brother-in-law) and Allan and Marialice Shivers (neighbors of the Bensons). Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRestrictions on AccessOpen to all users Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationCustodial HistoryMaterials donated by the Benson family. Preferred CitationBenson Family Scrapbooks and Papers (AR.2009.064). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas. Acquisition InformationDonor #: DO/2009/046 Donation Date: 2009-08-13 Processing InformationInitial Inventory and Preliminary Processing By/Date: Molly Hults/2009-08-30 Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Collection
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