Sallie A. Brooke Capps, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Brooke, was born, spent her childhood, and was educated in Sherman, Texas. She attended North Texas Female College, later named Kid Key College.
In 1887, she married William Capps, and they made their home in Fort Worth. William Capps became a prominent attorney, businessman, and the editor of
Sallie B. Capps was actively involved in the promotion of education during much of her life. She helped to organize the Fort Worth Kindergarten Association and was also its president from 1905 until 1919. For many years she was a vice president of the Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers Associations. From 1911 until 1929, Sallie B. Capps served as secretary for the board of regents of the College of Industrial Arts, now Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. A dormitory there was named in her honor.
Sallie B. Capps was a longtime member of and dedicated volunteer for St. Andrew's Episcopal Chirch in Fort Worth. She was also a charter member of the Fort Worth Woman's Club.
In 1910, the Capps family purchased a home at 1120 Penn Street, Fort Worth, which has since become a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark called the Pollock-Capps House. Mattie Mae Capps continued to live in this house after her marriage to Frank M. Anderson. Sallie B. Capps died there in 1946 at the age of eighty-one.
Journals, correspondence, literary works, clippings, financial records, diaries, scrapbooks, broadsides, reports, programs, handbooks, and grade reports. Encompassing the years 1869 through 1943, the papers reflect the life of Sallie B. Capps as a young lady in Sherman, Texas, as a wife and mother in Fort Worth, and as an activist dedicated to furthering the progress of education in her area of Texas.
Among the papers reflecting her personal life are journals, diaries, clippings correspondence, programs, and reports. A presidential inauguration program 91909) for William Howard Taft is also included.
The educational work of Sallie B. Capps is represented primarily in the form of correspondence and various printed material. The 1909
From 1911 until 1929, Sallie B. Capps served as secretary for the board of regents of the College of Industrial Arts (hereafter referred to as C.I.A.). Papers from this period primarily include correspondence, handbooks, and programs. Much correspondence deals with the selection of a C.I.A. president in 1924. This correspondence is arranged according to the nominee who is the subject of each letter: Annie Webb Blanton, Lindsen Blayney, C. D. Judd, R. J. Turrentine, and E. V. White. Correspondence relating to the C.I.A. board study of rules governing faculty in 1928 is arranged alphabetically according to the 28 colleges that responded to the survey. Miscellaneous C.I.A. correspondence and printed material is arranged chronologically. Of special interest is information regarding the first major controversy at the C.I.A. in 1925, involving the resignation of president Lindsey Blayney. Also included is printed material from C.I.A. quarter centennial events in 1928.
Papers relating to William Capps primarily reflect his business and political involvement from 1914 to 1916, especially a conflict with Frank Norris concerning prohibition. Most of the material regarding the Capps children reflects their school activities and includes grade reports, scrapbooks, diaries, and yearbooks. The Bristol School yearbook of 1909 contains a photograph and 2 entries concerning Mattie Mae Capps.
The photographs series mainly contains snapshots and negatives of the Capps family and their acquaintances. Only one photograph is dated. A formal, undated photograph features William and Sallie B. Capps with other C.I.A. dignitaries.
The Sallie B. Capps Papers are organized in three series. Series I is subdivided according to her personal life and her educational work. Series II is subdivided as to Sallie's husband, William, and their three children, Alba (Mrs. Henry G. Lucas), Mattie Mae (Mrs. Frank M. Anderson), and Count Brooke. Series III is divided only according to photographs in which some person is identified, photographs without identification, and negatives.
Certain items have been removed from the Sallie B. Capps Papers. Four publications, three portfolios of photographs, and a report have been cataloged. A 1907 map of Texas was placed in the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library. Six newspapers have been placed with the Garrett newspaper collection. Artifacts that were received with the papers are also housed separately. For more information about these items, request the holdings file.
Approximately three boxes of material from the Sallie B. Capps Papers were deaccessioned. This material was comprised of the following: duplicate copies; bank statements, receipts, and check stubes, 1930-1961; newspaper and magazine clippings which provide advice about running a household, n.d.; children's school papers; magazines, 1941-1942; and miscellaneous printed material and memorabilia.
In 1974,
Gift; 1974.
Sallie B. Capps Papers, Box number, Folder number, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library.
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Arranged and described in 1989 by Holly Wells.
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Journal containing diary, musical and literary works, clippings; also, financial records of Dr. John Brooke.
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Journal containing diary, literary works, clippings; also, business correspondence of Dr. John Brooke.
(27 items)
Autograph book, notebook, calling cards.
(3 items)
Diaries, address book.
(1 item, 60 pp.)
Unpublished manuscript entitled
(14 items)
Miscellaneous correspondence, programs, other printed material. Includes Taft inaugural souvenir, 1909.
(4 items)
Programs, speeches, literary work.
(24 items)
Printed material and College of Industrial Arts (hereafter referred to as C.I.A.) correspondence regarding Annie Webb Blanton. Includes
(35 items)
C.I.A. correspondence regarding Annie Webb Blanton.
(22 items)
C.I.A. correspondence regarding Annie Webb Blanton.
(9 items)
C.I.A. correspondence regarding Lindsey Blayney, C. D. Judd.
(15 items)
C.I.A. correspondence regarding R. J. Turrentine, E. V. White.
(27 items)
Miscellaneous C.I.A. correspondence, programs, handbooks, newsletter. Includes material regarding Blayney's resignation; also, C.I.A. quarter centennial program.
(41 items)
C.I.A. correspondence and handbooks relating to study of regulations governing faculty.
(7 items)
Miscellaneous: clippings, magazines, broadside.
(29 items)
Miscellaneous: grade reports, correspondence, programs, notebook.
(1 item)
Virginia Female Institute (hereafter referred to as V.F.I.) yearbook.
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Scrapbook.
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V.F.I. yearbook.
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Scrapbook.
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V.F.I. yearbook.
(18 items)
Miscellaneous: diaries, grade reports.
(1 item)
V.F.I. yearbook.
(5 items)
The Bristol School yearbook, grade reports. Yearbook contains photograph of Mattie Mae Capps, p. 11; she is also mentioned on pp. 34 and 36.
(29 prints)
Photographs of the Capps family.
(40 prints)
(67 negatives)
(66 negatives)