Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the State Archives search room. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to storage areas by staff members.
Because of the possibility that portions of these records fall under Public
Information Act exceptions including personal privacy (V.T.C.A., Government Code
Section 552.120), an archivist must review these records before they can be accessed
for research. This personal privacy exception applies to the autograph book dated
1947 in the
Under the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended in 1998, unpublished manuscripts are protected at a minimum through December 31, 2002 or 70 years after the author's death. Researchers are responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
Maps and blueprints are too large to photocopy.
Scrapbooks and drawings are too fragile and/or large to be photocopied.
Gloves provided by the State Archives must be worn when examining photographs.
Richard Niles Graham, born in 1881 to Carrie Augusta Pease Graham (1851-1882) and
George Thomas Graham (1847-1897), was a Texas businessman and social figure who was
instrumental in the development of numerous communities in Austin and throughout
Texas. R. Niles Graham had two siblings, Marshall Pease Graham (1875-1910) after
whom R. Niles would later name his eldest son, and Carrie Margaret Graham Crusemann
(1882-1961), also known as
The Pease family was a prominent and affluent family that possessed substantial land and mineral rights in counties throughout Texas including: Archer, Bosque, Brown, Dallam, Dimmit, Hamilton, Hemphill, Jackson, La Salle, Lee, Matagorda, Mills, Presidio, Sutton, Taylor, Travis, Waller, Webb, and Wharton. The original Pease estate is estimated to have been around 3,000 acres and belonged to Graham's maternal grandfather and former Governor of Texas, Elisha Marshall Pease (1812-1883). The family resided at the historic Woodlawn home, built by Abner Cook in 1853, in Austin, Texas. Governor E.M. Pease purchased Woodlawn, also known as the Pease Mansion, in July 1859. Upon his death in 1883, Governor Pease willed the estate to his widow Lucadia Pease. Lucadia would later leave the estate to her daughter, Julia Maria Pease.
In 1901, Graham began attending Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. While there, he joined numerous social organizations, particularly the Delta Psi Fraternity in which he maintained active membership throughout his life. After graduating from Trinity in 1904, Graham returned to Austin and began working for the cotton company, Crawford and Byrne.
In 1916, Graham and his cousin W. Murray Graham formed what would be one of Graham's primary and most influential business ventures, the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company. Serving as vice president, Graham used land from the Pease estate to develop residential neighborhoods in Austin and in various counties throughout Texas. The company was responsible for the development of Austin neighborhoods such as Enfield, Westfield, and Tarrytown. Graham coordinated the development of these communities through Enfield Realty and Home Building Company with his cousin who served as president, and his brother-in-law Paul Crusemann, who served as secretary.
In addition to the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company, Graham also served as secretary of the Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company throughout the 1920s and 1930s. as secretary, Graham maintained business correspondence, legal documentation, and financial records related to the company's oil and mineral lease activities in Texas. Similar to the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company, the Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company used the Pease Estate to sell and lease land, oil, gas, and other mineral rights to companies or individuals.
Graham married Anita Laura Goeth (1889-1953) in January 1910. He and Anita continued
to live at the Pease Mansion, also known as Woodlawn, in Austin and had three
children, Marshall Pease Graham II (1911-1977), Thomas Adolf Goeth Graham
(1912-1983), and Julie Anita Graham (1923-1987). Their eldest son Marshall became a
lawyer and would occasionally act as legal representative for the family, eventually
drafting Graham and Anita's will. Marshall and his wife Louise lived in Corpus
Christi, Texas and maintained frequent correspondence with Graham and Anita. Thomas
Adolf Goeth Graham, called
R. Niles Graham had an active social life and was involved in numerous organizations including the Delta Psi Fraternity, the Austin Rotary Club, and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. R. Niles and Anita were popular in social circles and would regularly entertain guests at Woodlawn. These social relationships are documented in the family's event invitations, guestbook, and correspondence. Graham traveled extensively throughout Texas and the United States, frequenting places such as New York, Hartford, and San Francisco, as well as internationally, including trips to Paris, London, Bath, Liverpool, and Shanghai. These travels are reflected in his collection of event programs, menus, wine lists, and photographs. Graham enjoyed art and poetry, and frequently attended theatre and opera productions. Graham was also interested in family history and genealogy.
Four generations of the Pease-Graham family resided in Austin at the historic Woodlawn home until 1957, when R. Niles sold the home and the remaining property surrounding it to his friend and former Governor of Texas, Robert Allan Shivers. R. Niles Graham died in 1959.
(Sources include: The Austin History Center, Pease-Graham-Niles Family Papers, 1826-1992. AR.2000.01)
The Graham (R. Niles) Collection is diverse in both format and subject, documenting much of the personal, family, and business activities of Richard Niles Graham through correspondence, financial documents and ledgers, legal records, maps and blueprints, photographs, scrapbooks, several forms of ephemera, publications, and creative works, dating from 1846 to 1958, bulk dating from 1895 to 1958.
Immediate family life in Austin, Texas is documented through correspondence, scrapbooks, a guestbook, financial and legal records pertaining to the Pease Estate, and law school notes from R. Niles Graham's son, Marshall. Materials pertaining to Graham's extended family are concentrated in the papers of Lucadia and Julia Pease and in a large photographic collection including portraits of family and images from travels and other occasions. The documents of the Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company are extensive and include correspondence, financial documents, mineral deeds, and oil leases. Photographs and maps also document Texas oil and residential developments. Graham's personal interests are seen throughout the collection in formats including autographed photographs; menus, wine lists and brochures from travels; programs from college, cultural, and sporting events; greeting cards; drawings; a collection of poems and jokes; newspapers and magazines; book advertisements and catalogues; collections of newspaper clippings; prints; and residential architectural plans pasted in scrapbooks.
The collection documents the history of the vast estate accumulated by Texas Governor Elisha Pease once the estate had passed on to his widow Lucadia C. Pease, and then to his daughter Julia Pease and grandson R. Niles Graham. The collection provides evidence for the many uses of land in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Texas, including leasing, ranching, oil drilling, and subdividing for residential neighborhoods. The files document ownership of property in the following Texas counties: Archer, Bosque, Brown, Dallam, Dimmit, Hamilton, Hemphill, Jackson, La Salle, Lee, Matagorda, Mills, Presidio, Sutton and Schleicher, Taylor, Waller, Webb, and Wharton. The files include information on the establishment of many contemporary features of Austin, Texas, including Pease Park, the Enfield neighborhood, and Niles Road. The collection includes details of the financial and legal challenges involved in maintaining a large estate and the ways in which such estates could support significant private fortunes. The collection further documents the uses of the Pease-Niles-Graham estate's incomes through extensive evidence of the family's lifestyle and social activities, including menus, travel brochures, scrapbooks, event programs and theater playbills, and a rich and diverse photograph collection. These include evidence of extensive travel, particularly to New York City and Hartford, Connecticut. There is evidence of the economic basis for the lifestyle of the Texan upper class, including the leasing of land for ranching and oil exploration as well as the sale of land for residential development.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
The papers are organized in twelve series according to document type, subject, or creator. Of the twelve series, three are further subdivided into additional subseries.
(Identify the item and cite the series), Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Collection initially processed by State Archives staff in the 1960s
Further processing, a DACS-compliant finding aid and XML markup completed in the spring of 2012 by Megan Dirickson, James McBride, Javier Ruedas, and Elisa Salinas, students from the University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
Accession number: 1964/306
This collection was donated to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by Richard Niles Graham between 1964 and 1966. A few artifacts were returned to Mr. Maurice Dennis on August 15, 1988.
Correspondence addresses personal and family matters, issues of personal and family finance, and some of Richard N. Graham's business dealings, dating 1901-1957. The series as a whole comprises letters addressed to and sent by Graham, to Graham and his wife Anita, and to his wife alone. Graham's correspondence reflects his position as the head of his family and of his business, and as such addresses both personal and business issues, particularly those related to his dealings in real estate, while the preponderance of correspondence to him and his wife deal with personal and family issues.
Materials are organized by State Archives staff into two subseries according to the recipient or the sender.
(Identify the item and cite the subseries), Correspondence, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The early documents of the R. Niles Graham correspondence provide a record of Graham's days at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and his entrance into the Texas real estate industry in the latter part of the 1910s. The correspondence documents business and personal matters in Richard's Grahman's life, dating 1901-1957. The correspondence from the 1920s provides a personal view of his transition into the Texas oil industry and the running of his company, the Enfield Oil Company. Much of the correspondence during this period is with his brother-in-law, Paul Crusemann. Letters from the late 1920s and 1930s document the continuing expansion of Graham's business interests in the realm of real estate, through correspondencewith his realty companies, the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company and the Westenfield Development Company, and him and various government organizations, such as the Austin Chamber of Commerce and Texas tax offices. Also included are personal letters between Graham and his wife, and letters related to various family issues, such as his attempts to place his son Marshall in east coast boarding schools. After the 1930s, the correspondence becomes mostly personal in nature, the preponderance being letters among family members, and letters pertaining to his involvement in his college and fraternity alumni association and events. There is a small amount of politically related correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Texas Governor Allan Shivers being notable.
Materials are arranged chronologically by State Archives staff, with undated material appearing at the end of the subseries. Because of several overloaded folders, some files were split and broken into smaller date ranges by the student processors.
(Identify the item), R. Niles Graham correspondence, Correspondence, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This correspondence subseries consists of letters addressed to both R. Niles and Anita Graham from 1919 to 1951 and undated. The majority of the correspondence is from Graham's son Marshall and Marshall's wife Louise. There is also a folder of letters addressed solely to Anita Graham, which include letters from her friends and family, though the majority of the correspondence is from her son, Marshall.
Materials are arranged by State Archives staff as received by recipient(s) and then chronologically, with undated material appearing at the end of the files.
(Identify the item), Graham family correspondence, Correspondence, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series consists of documents pertaining to the Graham family assets
including land and mineral lease papers concerning the Pease Estate and
property in Travis County as well as materials related to the Graham family
finances including promissory notes for Austin National Bank, a 1939 income
tax estimate for R. Niles and Anita Goeth Graham, check stubs, bills for
insurance and travel related expenses, and receipts for daily transactions
such as purchases of gasoline or reading materials. Account books, which are
predominantly blank, and a ledger which sparsely records accounting matters
between family members are also included. The last folder contains
miscellaneous financial documents that have been transferred from the
Materials are grouped by document type and arranged by State Archives staff and student volunteers.
(Identify the item), Graham family financial documents, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series contains geneological information and various memorabilia items
of the Graham famliy, dating 1925-1939, 1944-1956 and undated, including a
handwritten family tree outlining R. Niles Graham's lineage from the lines
of Lieutenant David Marshall, a memorabilia file, two copies of
The files are arranged as received from the donor with the exception of two
financial files,
(Identify the item), Graham family ephemera and memorabilia, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series consists of invitations, correspondence, and business papers of Lucadia C. Pease; business papers and correspondence of Julia M. Pease; and an assortment of papers related to other members and associates of the Pease-Niles-Graham family, dating 1846, 1849, 1875-1943. Invitations issued to Lucadia Pease provide evidence of 27 years of Pease family social life, offering a detailed view of the family's social connections and social activities. Lucadia Pease's business papers provide evidence of the ways in which the Pease land was used to derive income. A significant document within this subseries is a certificate from the City of Austin accepting the donation of land from the Pease family, which would later become Pease Park. The L.C. Pease estate papers and the Julia Pease business papers are the core of this series, mostly produced during and after the transference of the Pease estate to Julia Pease following the death of her mother. The papers show the challenges faced by Julia Pease in assuming management of such a large and widely dispersed set of properties, collecting lease payments, and assuming the obligations of a large landowner. as a whole, these papers provide information on a remarkable mother and daughter who kept together a vast estate from the death of Lucadia's husband, Elisha Pease, in 1883, until the death of Julia Pease in 1918. The miscellaneous Pease-Niles-Graham family papers provide evidence of some family members and associates that are not otherwise well represented in this collection, such as a letter signed by U.S. Senator John Niles, and correspondence of Richard Niles Graham's mother, Carrie Pease. An 1846 receipt for supplies purchased in New Orleans by Dr. T. Graham is of considerable interest since it was during that time that U.S. troops were being moved through New Orleans to the Mexican-American War front in Texas. A very detailed phrenological analysis of a person named Bessie Belle Hoxey provides information on the practice of phrenology, a pseudoscience common in the late nineteenth century in which the shape of a person's skull was considered indicative of the person's character.
The series is organized into two subseries by student processors according to the record creator, then into folders according to record creator and subject, then chronologically within each folder.
(Identify the item and subseries), Pease business papers and correspondence, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The subseries consists of correspondence and business papers covering the management of the Pease estate by Lucadia C. Pease, the transfer of the estate to Julia M. Pease, and the management of the estate by Julia M. Pease, along with social invitations issued to Lucadia C. Pease, dating 1875-1943.
The subseries is arranged according to the records creator and subject, then chronologically within each folder, as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Lucadia C. and Julia M. Pease papers, Pease business papers and correspondence, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries consists of letters, an invitation, a funeral announcement, a telegram, a bank draft, and a phrenological chart, related to members and associates of the Pease family, including William Brueggerhoff, a Pease family associate who managed real estate transactions, and U.S. Senator John M. Niles, dating 1846, 1849, 1875-1908.
The subseries is arranged according to the records creator, then chronologically within each folder, as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Other Pease-Niles-Graham family papers, Pease business papers and correspondence, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series contains correspondence, a ledger, and financial and legal
documents related to the management of the land owned by the Pease estate,
dating 1877-1916. Many items date from the decade after Lucadia Christiana
Pease's death in 1905, when her daughter, Julia Maria Pease was taking over
management of the estate, . These files follow logically and chronologically
from the
Other files document ownership of property in the following Texas counties:
Archer, Bosque, Brown, Dallam, Dimmit, Hamilton, Hemphill, Jackson, La
Salle, Lee, Matagorda, Mills, Presidio, Sutton, Schleicher, Taylor, Waller,
Webb, and Wharton. The records include inventories of property, tax
assessments, requests for back taxes owed, requests to lease, buy, or broker
the sale of land, promissory notes, lease agreements, correspondence related
to unpaid leases, letters stating enclosure of lease payments, request for
documents to confirm that land bought from the Pease estate has been fully
paid for so that the purchaser may obtain full title to the land and the
legal right to sell it, and examples of such
The files are arranged by State Archives staff beginning with the ledger and L.C. Pease estate records followed by an alphabetical arrangement of Texas counties, with the exception of the final folder which includes Wharton, Jackson, and Matagorda counties.
(Identify the item), Pease estate papers, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series contains documents pertaining to the daily operation of R. Niles Graham's oil company, Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company, from 1913 to 1941 and undated. Records include account books, letters and telegrams, tax statements and receipts, billing statements, contracts, oil leases, mineral deeds, title certificates, bank statements, business cards, deposit slips, check stubs, stock orders, and other receipts. This series provides an in-depth look at the Texas oil industry in the interwar years of the 20th century, and documents dealings between Enfield Oil and Petroleum and the following entities or individuals: Archer County, Brownwood/Brown County, Hutchinson County, Travis County, Texas Railroad Commission, Citizens National Bank, C. Andrade III, Jeremiah Brown League, W.D. Gully, H.F. Rider, Sam Windham, W.H. Mannes, Woodruffe and Company, Humble Oil, and the Texas Company (Texaco). Files organized by county deal with business transactions within those borders, not necessarily the county or its officials themselves. as such, they also contain records relating to business with further companies such as Shell Petroleum Corporation, Phillips Petroleum Company, and the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation, which are still in existence in some form today. The process of inter-business relations, negotiations, and transactions is also exposed in the files devoted to specific companies. Files of individuals are clients with whom Enfield Oil maintained a large amount of business and lawyers who facilitated leases for land and mineral rights and other matters associated with the business, and reveal the nature of the business' relationships with its clientele and its employees.
Material is arranged in the original order in which it was received from the donor, either by document type, or entity or individual with which the material is associated, with some refoldering of overly full files.
(Identify the item), Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company records, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series contains pencil sketches and drawings, prints of the Woodlawn
mansion, a painting of an unidentified man, greeting cards, poetry and other
literary material, dating 1920, 1927-1929, 1932-1937, 1949, 1955-1956 and
undated. While some of the drawings bear the initials
The material is arranged within the file by type, as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Artistic and literary materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series provides a detailed view of the lifestyle of a wealthy family primarily during between 1900 and 1940. It consists of printed materials including catalogues, advertisements, brochures, newspapers, news clippings, magazines, and programs, dating 1866-1958, undated, bulk dating 1900-1940. Items present show how R. Niles Graham and his family traveled and dined, the consumer products they purchased, their interest in sports, their book collection, participation in civic organizations and clubs, schools and colleges attended, social life, interests, and hobbies.
The series is organized into ten subseries according to documentary form, genre, and subject.
(Identify the item and subseries), Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries contains a book catalogue and publishing announcements, dating 1894, 1930-1957. Present is a catalogue of the Pease library in two parts, containing records of books belonging to the Pease and Graham family. In a separate folder is R. Niles Graham's collection of book publishers' catalogues, book publishing announcements, a list of American first edition prices, and a list of Texana books to be sold at auction in 1941. The book advertisement collection reflects R. Niles Graham's interest in Texana and Texas history. A highlight is an announcement by the Masonic Grand Lodge Library of Waco of the acquisition of manuscript letters of Governor Elisha M. Pease.
Materials are in the original order received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Personal library and book collecting, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries consists of pamphlets, magazines, and clippings from
literary magazines, dating 1894-1958. Pamphlets include Texana, World
War II rationing and fighting, transportation, religious pamphlets, and
biographies of Lytton Strachey and Christine Ladd-Franklin. Magazines
include
Materials are filed by form and genre and arranged within each folder in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Magazines and pamphlets, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries contains autograph books, memorandum books, a diary, a
small notebook, and an annotated army drill manual, dating 1900, 1904,
1907, 1934, 1947, 1957, and undated. One autograph book consists of
thank you notes written in 1947 by numerous individuals thanking R.
Niles Graham for his help in overcoming their alcohol abuse problems.
The 1957 autograph book contains signatures of individuals who attended
a Trinity College alumni reunion. Memorandum books include genealogical
research on the families of R. Niles Graham and his wife, as well as
to-do notes, addresses, and expense accounting. The diary contains daily
records of R. Niles Graham's activities from March to September 1903. A
notebook dated 1907 includes expense accounts labeled
Materials are filed by form and genre and arranged within each folder in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Small notebooks, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Because of the possibility that portions of these records fall under Public Information Act exceptions including personal privacy (V.T.C.A., Government Code Section 552.120), an archivist must review these records before they can be accessed for research. This personal privacy exception applies to the autograph book dated to 1947.
This subseries contains printed materials relating to colleges,
universities, schools, clubs, and civic organizations that R. Niles
Graham attended, was a member of, or waswith which he was associated,
dating 1867-1956, and undated. Many of these materials reflect his
attendance at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and his
subsequent lifelong association with his alma mater. These include
announcements and programs for events such as concerts, athletic events,
and plays that occurred while he was a student, as well as later events
such as alumni reunions and commemorations of Trinity College war
veterans. Also included are materials such as song books and event
announcements from R. Niles Graham's fraternity, Delta Psi. Materials on
other schools include St. John's Military School (Sing Sing, New York),
The Austin Academy, Cloyne School, Shattuck School, the University of
Texas, Cascadilla School, and several issues of the
Materials are foldered by type of institution and arranged within each folder in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Schools, colleges, and civic organizations, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The series consists mainly of theater programs from Austin, Hartford, and New York, dating 1876-1938 and undated, with the majority collected between 1898 and 1902. Also present are programs and announcements for opera, theater, and musical events held in Austin, San Antonio, Amarillo, Hartford, New York, London, and San Francisco. Theaters covered include Millet's Opera House and the Little Theatre (Austin, Texas), the New Hartford Opera House, Parsons Theatre, and Poli's Theatre (Hartford, Connecticut), Proctor's Fifth Avenue, Herald Square Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Manhattan Theatre, the New York Winter Garden, the Casino Theatre and Roof Garden, the Broadway Theatre, the Grand Opera House, the White Theater, the Criterium Theatre, the Lyceum Theatre, Daly's Theatre, the Jardin de Paris managed by F. Ziegfeld, Jr., the Knickerbocker Theatre, and the New York Hippodrome (New York, New York), and many others. In addition to information about plays, music, actors, musicians, and theater operators, these programs contain a wealth of late nineteenth and early twentieth century advertisements and print designs. Other items include an invitation to the dedication of the Washington Memorial in 1885 and the program for the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas.
Materials are foldered by geographic location and arranged within each folder in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Programs, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries contains programs and announcements for sporting events, dating 1895-1958. Events documented include the 1927 Texas A&M-Texas football game, the 1958 Belmont Stakes, an 1895 Austin regatta, and various track and field, ice hockey, sailing, football, and horse racing events.
The subseries is arranged in original order as received from the donor..
(Identify the item), Sporting events, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries contains issues of various newspapers, dating 1866-1935.
Papers present are issues of the University of Texas freshmen's
newspaper
The subseries is arranged within each folder in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Newspapers, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries contains print souvenirs and memorabilia from the Graham family's extensive travels, dating 1887-1953 and undated. Menus and wine lists were collected throughout Texas as well as Ciudad Juarez, New York, Hartford, San Francisco, Long Beach, Honolulu, Japan, China, and London. The menu collection also includes menus and wine lists from railroad diner cars and steamship cruise lines. Of particular interest is a set of menus reflecting a trip made by Graham to Asia in 1905. These include menus from Yokohama, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Kobe, with dates showing that he traveled to Japan in the midst of the Russo-Japanese war. The Asian trip is also reflected in menus from Shanghai and Macao. The oldest menu is an 1887 menu from the Hotel Kaaterskill, New York. The travel brochures include railroad schedules and advertisements for travel within the United States, as well as steamship schedules and advertisements for travel both within the United States and from the United States to Europe. The Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen steamship line is especially well documented in this collection. There are passenger lists for a cruise from New York to Rotterdam and back, with R. Niles Graham mentioned. The collection also includes several oversized steamship cabin maps. There is a substantial collection of Texas Centennial memorabilia dating to 1936, covering events in several cities including Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio. Of interest is a brochure entitled "Announcing the first air cruise in history," dated to 1928 and issued by the Luft Hansa (today Lufthansa) airline.
Materials are foldered by document type, form or transportation, and geographic location, and arranged within each folder in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Dining and travel, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries consists of newspaper clippings dating 1898, 1911,
1923-1956, bulk between 1925 and 1935. The main themes documented in
this collection are social events featuring members of the Graham family
or hosted at the Woodlawn mansion, Texas history, the development of
Enfield and other subdivisions from the old Pease estate, urban
development and historic preservation, obituaries, and developments in
oil leasing and drilling. Included is a set of advertisements for the
Enfield neighborhood, designed as faux newspaper columns entitled
Materials are arranged as in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Newspaper clippings, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This subseries contains advertisements and catalogs for a wide variety of
products including clothes, real estate, cameras, cotton seed, and
hotel, dating 1901-1956 and undated. It includes an issue of the
The subseries is arranged in original order as received from the donor.
(Identify the item), Advertisements and catalogs, Printed materials, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series consists of six scrapbooks that can be seen as serving two purposes: documenting biographical history through the collection of newspaper clippings and ephemera and collecting prints and greeting cards of personal interest. Dates range from 1866 to 1937, however, the bulk of prints are undated.
The first scrapbook contains chiefly newspaper clippings and programs (1914; 1924-1928 and undated), as well as funeral announcements for R. Niles Graham's grandfather (former governor E. M. Pease, 1883) and father (Geo. T. Graham, 1897). Topics include marriage and divorce announcements, Rotary Club, Woodlawn Estate, Brown County Oil, real-estate development, Texas State Exposition, Pease Park, and St. David's Church (Austin). Individuals discussed in articles include R. Niles Graham, Elisabet Ney, Will Rogers, E. H. Perry, Viscount Weymouth and Daphne Vivian, Oscar J. Fox, and President Calvin Coolidge. This scrapbook is a purpose-made scrapbook with rows of self-adhering dots. The book is no longer bound.
The second scrapbook contains the handwritten note
The third scrapbook contains prints of architectural plans, residential
buildings and photographic prints of houses, 1890-1908, non-inclusive. The
majority of these are taken from
The fourth scrapbook is contained in a repurposed tailoring book with a
collection of prints pasted and collaged all over its pages, dating 1888,
1894, 1896-1897, undated. Prints cover a variety of subject matter including
plants, landscapes, interiors, animals, and people. Some prints use
photographic processes, while others are artistically rendered through a
variety of printing processes. A drawing in graphite of a building and
cemetery is also included, with initials
The fifth scrapbook is a repurposed clothing catalog labeled
The sixth and last scrapbook is composed of highly brittle and deteriorated paper that flakes off with the slightest handling. The scrapbook contains mostly greeting cards, holiday cards, calling cards, and condolence cards, and a funeral notice. Some holiday cards are Christmas cards, but there is at least one New Year's card. Almost all are color prints. The most elaborate cards are multilayered with lacework on the surface. Also included are inspirational or religious poems printed on cards. Within the scrapbooks are a number of newspaper obituary clippings dating between 1866 and 1891. Many of the cards are in nonstandard shapes such as figures of children, domestic animals, or flowers.
Three scrapbooks are located in an oversize box for preservation purposes. The three remaining scrapbooks are stored as individual items. The series is arranged first by type of scrapbook: newspaper clippings and ephemera, followed by print collections. The first two scrapbooks contain the most dated items and are arranged chronologically, although there is some overlap in coverage.
(Identify the item), Scrapbooks, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Scrapbooks are too large to photocopy. They are extremely fragile and need to be handled with care.
This series consists of documents related to Marshall Graham's law school
education, including notes for courses on civil law, contracts, agency,
property law, and torts, dating 1933-1935, bulk undated. A folder (File #2,
G) containing financial documents dated 1919 and 1920 was transferred to the
Materials are arranged as received from the donor, grouped according to course subject.
(Identify the item), Marshall Graham law school class notes, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series contains historic maps and blueprints depicting Texas cities and highways as well as land and mineral holdings of the Graham family and the Pease estate in counties throughout Texas including Brown, Lampasas, McCulloch, and Travis. Also included are blueprints of the proposed residential subdivisions in Austin for neighborhoods such as Enfield, Westfield, and Tarrytown developed by the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company. Nineteen of the 46 maps and blueprints contained in the series have been removed and placed in the Texas State Archives Map Collection. Transfer sheets for these maps are located in the first folder of Box 2-23/565 of the Graham (R. Niles) Collection. Detailed descriptions of these maps can also be found in the online Historical Map Collection catalog of the Texas State Archives website. Dates range from 1909 to 1955 and undated.
Maps #6251 thru #6269 are located in the Texas State Archives Map Collection and arranged in numerical order by the map number. Maps and blueprints located in the Graham (R. Niles) historic map drawer are arranged in their original order as received from the donor and are grouped according to subject where applicable.
(Identify the item), Maps and blueprints, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This series of photographs documents the family, social, and business life of R. Niles Graham and his family, both at home in Austin and in travels domestically and abroad, dating from 1893 ti 1937 and undated. This series consists of 855 photographs, 507 postcards, 17 photoengravings, 3 tintypes, 10 copy photographs, 21 steel engravings, and 22 engravings. In addition, the collection originally included several batches of snapshot film negatives for which there were no corresponding prints. In about 1978, 8x10 modern prints were made from these negatives by the State Archives' contract photographer, Bill Malone. Once printed these cellulose nitrate negatives were deaccessioned and destroyed because they were thought to be a safety hazard.
The subject matter of the photographs is fairly disparate and covers a wide geographical area. Pictorially, the photographs represent the activity and interests of the Graham family, from postcards and photographs from their wide travels in the United States and Europe, to their life at Woodlawn (the Pease Mansion) in Austin. They also document several of Graham's business ventures, such as the Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company and the Enfield real estate developments. Graham's collection of autographed photos of Hollywood actors and actresses is also included. Geographical locations include Austin, New York City, Trinity College, Hartford, and a large variety of other Texas, United States, and international cities. Notable subjects of photos include Texas Governors E. M. Pease and Dan Moody.Also present are military scenes during the Spanish-American war era and prior to World War I. There remain a large number of unidentified photographs.
The photographs are arranged into five groups: People, Places, Subjects, Miscellaneous, and Modern prints.
The photographs are then physically arranged according to original size. The first three boxes contain smaller format photographs, while the remaining boxes contain larger formats. For some item numbers, both box sizes may need to be consulted to locate a particular photograph.
Photographs are item listed by photo number in the inventory. Please refer to the box list below for the box numbers.
(Identify the item), Photographs, Graham (R. Niles) collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Gloves supplies by the State Archives must be worn when handling photographs.
This group of photographs contains images with identifiable people as their subjects, arranged alphabetically. This group accounts for images 1 thru 212.
Photographs 213 thru 599 consist of images in which the subject or group is unidentified, but are accompanied by titles in brackets based on the content of the photos.
Items 600 thru 213 are photos and photo postcards are of locales, arranged alphabetically by their setting, first by places in Texas, then the United States, then by international place name.
This group contains photographs without a clear subject or location. They have been arranged alphabetically according to titles derived from photo content; items 1249 thru 1393.
This group is comprised of modern prints from negatives and other photographs found later by the family, but still considered part of the original donation; they have been grouped by subject matter with the subjects in no particular order, items 1394 thru 2927.