urn:taro:utexas.cah.00062 A Guide to the Blackburn-Townsend Family Papers Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. Finding aid written in English. July 25, 2002 Edited with XMetaL 2 by Kristy Sorensen, according to instructions in Editing TARO EAD XML Finding Aids with XMetaL. November 2004Revised by Evan Hocker. Tue Jul 22 15:26:38 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.cah.00062 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Descriptive Summary Blackburn-Townsend Blackburn-Townsend Family Papers, 1821 (1865-1909) 1918. 3 ft., 9 in.; manuscript, typescript, printed, pictorial. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History ,The University of Texas at Austin Closely related to the William A. Blackburn Papers, the collection pertains to the extended Blackburn-Townsend families, family affairs, the business of several successive family law firms in Austin, land transactions, a furniture enterprise in Taylor, mining in California and Mexico, and political activities in which various members of the families participated. Materials are in English. Scope and Contents

Closely related to the William A. Blackburn Papers, the collection pertains to the extended Blackburn-Townsend families, family affairs, the business of several successive family law firms in Austin, land transactions, a furniture enterprise in Taylor, mining in California and Mexico, and political activities in which various members of the families participated. Townsend documentation is primarily in the period 1821-1909; Blackburn documentation is primarily in the period 1830-1918. Includes correspondence, diary, account books, minute books, legal papers, docket books, literary productions, and newspaper clippings.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Blackburn Family Robards, C. L. Townsend Family. Subjects Furniture Law, Practice of Mines and mining Real estate. Places Austin, Tex. Taylor, Tex. Texas. Preferred Citation

Blackburn-Townsend Family Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

 Related Material

William A. Blackburn Papers, 1869-1909, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

 Inventory 2H38 Correspondence: 2H38Townsend, 1902-1909 2H38Miscellaneous, 1860's (Townsend) 2H38Miscellaneous, 1867-1871 (Robards and Jackson) 2H38Miscellaneous, 1873-1878 (Blackburn) 2H39 Correspondence: 2H39Miscellaneous, 1879-1888 (Blackburn)

Pictorial Files

Letterheads:

Farm machinery, 1885 (Box 2H39 Folder #7)

 2H40 Correspondence: 2H40Miscellaneous, 1889-1893 (Blackburn) 2H41 Correspondence: 2H41Miscellaneous, 1894-1900 (Blackburn) 2H42 Correspondence: 2H42Miscellaneous, 1901-1909 (Blackburn) 2H42Miscellaneous, undated (Blackburn) 2H43 Letter Presses: 2H43 1871-1872 (Robards and Jackson) 2H43 1872-1873 (Smith and James) 2H43 1873-1874 (Smith and Blackburn) 2H44 Letter Presses: 2H44 1875-1876 (Smith and Blackburn) 2H44 1876-1877 (Smith and Blackburn) 2H45 Letter Presses: 2H45 1879-1880 (Smith and Blackburn) 2H45 1882-1885 (Smith and Blackburn) 2H46 Financial records, Townsend family, 1869-1909 2H46Financial records, miscellaneous, 1885-1907 2H46Financial records, miscellaneous, 1885-1909 2.116/OD 1220Clippings 2.116/OD 1220 Printed material, pictorial, correspondence