Descriptive Summary
Dunn, Linda
Tays
Linda Tays Dunn Family
Papers
1776, 1795,
1915-1989Most materials are written
in English;a few items are in
Spanish.
80-40; 94-013; 94-119
7 ft., 6 in.
Center for American History,The
University of Texas at Austin
Correspondence, legal
and financial documentatio, reports, creative materials, maps, published
materials and photographs comprise the Linda Tays Dunn Family Papers. Materials
document the personal and professional lives of the Tays and Dunn families in
early Texas and the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.
Biographical NoteThe Linda Tays Dunn Family Papers document
the lives of various members of the Tays and Dunn families in early Texas and
the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. Two Tays brothers, Eugene and Joseph,
were civil engineers and lived in Mexico, where Joseph worked on the Mexican
National Railroad and Eugene worked in the mining fields. Both were in Mexico
and crossing the border into Texas during the Mexican Revolution. After the
revolution, Eugene's mining interests dwindled, so he turned to the family
estate in Sinaloa, Mexico, and to farming and ranching. Eugene began sending
winter vegetables to the United States, though he also continued to seek other
areas in which he could continue his mining investements. The Tays family also
has a home base in El Paso.
Eugene's daughter, Linda, married William
Edward Dunn, a history professor and foreign-service official, who was born in
Sulpher Springs, Texas. Dunn assisted Herbert Eugene Bolton in Mexico City on
research in the early history of the Spanish Southwest. His foreign-service
career carried him to Peru, Haiti, Guatemala and Columbia. The Dunn family
lived in Washington, D. C. while Dunn taught at the School of Advanced
International Studies. Afterward the family resided in Dallas, though they
often traveled to Sinaloa to visit their estate.
Scope and ContentsCorrespondence, legal and financial
documentation, reports, creative materials, maps, published materials and
photographs document the personal and professional lives of the Tays and Dunn
families. The papers are arranged into three series: Tays family, Dunn family
and Tays family minig properties.
The Tays family series includes the
personal papers of Mrs. Dunn's father, E.A.H. Tays, brother José Tays and
grandfather Reverend Joseph Wilkin Tays. E.A.H. Tays' photographs,
correspondence and written reports serve to illuminate the process of mining in
remote early 20th century Sinaloa, Mexico. Of special interest among the
letters of Mr. Tays are those concerning the death of his son José Tays at the
hands of Indians under the leadership of famed rebel/outlaw Felipé Bachomo in
1915. The papers of Mrs. Dunn's mother, Rosaura de la Vega, are also included
in the series, as well as four folders of geneological information about the
early Tays family, compiled by Mrs. Dunn and others.
The second and largest series concerns
the activities of Mrs. Dunn and her immediate and extended family members. The
Linda Tays Dunn sub-series is the largest, of which correspondence constitutes
the bulk. the Casa Tays sub-series contains the earliest documents of the
papers, consisting of deeds of ownership by the ancestors of Mrs. Dunn to the
ranches of Jecolua (1776) and Mesquital (1795). Pre-existing arrangement of
two-way correspondence was retained wherever feasible. Correspondence and other
subject folders are arranged as received by the Center for American
History.
The Tays family mining properties
subgroup includes all correspondence, reports, maps, stock certificates, legal
documents and financial records relating to the operation of serveral gold and
silver mines owned by the Tays family in Sinaloa, Mexico. Correspondence by
various family members over the years, especially Linda Tays Dunn, document
their efforts to get the mines into active production. Also included are
numerous mining reports about various Tays holdings and a series of maps
displaying the extent of their claims.
Access RestrictionsUnrestricted access.
Use RestrictionsUnrestricted use.
Preferred CitationLinda Tays Dunn Family Papers, 1776,
1795, 1915-1989, Center for American History, The University of Texas at
Austin.
Related Material
Linda Tays
Dunn Photograph Collection, ca. 1860-1989
Index Terms
Bachomo, Felipé.
De la Vega,
Rosaura.
Dunn, Linda
Tays.
Tays, E. A. H.
Tays, José.
Tays, Joseph
Wilkins.
Dunn family.
Mexican Revolution.
Mines--Mexico.
Mining--Mexico.
Tays family.
Sinaloa (Mexico)
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory
2.325/P61
Tays family:
2.325/P61
Genealogy:
2.325/P61
Compiled family history,
1904, 1959-1989 (2 folders)
2.325/P61
Tays family data,
1826 (copy), 1883, 1915, 1928, 1956-1969, 1976,
undated
2.325/P61
Correspondence,
1962, 1964-1970, 1982, 1985
2.325/P61
De La Vega family history,
undated
2.325/P61
Albert K. Owen Historical Society,
1982-1983
2.325/P61
Publication of Blake journal,
1947-1950, 1962-1965
2.325/P61
E.A.H. Tays:
2.325/P61
Correspondence,
1897, 1898, 1914, 1915, 1918-1928, undated (2
folders)
2.325/P61
Creative work,
1924
2.325/P61
Published articles,
1909, 1915
2.325/P61
Legal documents:
2.325/P61
Passports, civil records, contracts,
1919-1928
2.325/D10k
Testimonios,
1886, 1895, 1902, 1904, 1933
2.325/P61
Financial documents,
1902, 1926, 1933
2.325/P61
Awards and certificates,
1898, 1902
2.325/P61
Books and wallet,
1887, 1924
2.325/P61
Rosaura de la Vega, correspondence,
1928-1933, 1939, 1941-1944, 1947,
1948
2.325/P61
Reverend Joseph W. Tays, official documents (copies),
handwritten letter (copy), reports by other people about J. W. Tays,
1870-1871, 1893, 1965, 1969-1970
2.325/P61
José Tays:
2.325/P61
Correspondence,
1915
2.325/P61
Creative works,
1905
2.325/P61
Assorted Tays family legal documents,
1933, 1960-1967
2.325/P61
Printed materials,
1930-1989
2.325/P61
Creative works,
1915
2.325/P61
Scrapbook,
1899-1900
2.325/P61
Maps (non-mining),
1904, 1926, 1972
Photo Location
Assorted photographs:
Photo Location
Assorted photographs
Photo Location
Assorted glass plate negatives
Photo Location
Photographs of mining camp San José de Gracia,
1895-1897
2.325/P61
Dunn Family:
2.325/P61
Linda Tays Dunn:
2.325/P61
Correspondence, family:
2.325/P61
Rosaura de la Vega (6 folders):
2.325/P61
May 14, 1923-September 8, 1932,
undated
2.325/P61
September 11, 1932-November 30,
1934
2.325/P62
December 4, 1934-June 9,
1937
2.325/P62
June 10, 1937-November 28,
1940
2.325/P62
December 4, 1940-October 31,
1944
2.325/P62
November 8, 1944-July 10,
1949
2.325/P62
E. A. H. Tays,
1920-1928, undated
2.325/P62
George Tays (4 folders):
2.325/P62
April 23, 1931-December 15,
1938
2.325/P62
January 10, 1939-January 16,
1944
2.325/P62
April 5, 1944-February 17,
1950
2.325/P62
February 25, 1950-February 17,
1950
2.325/P62
William Edward Dunn (2 folders),
1919, 1921, 1926-1935, [1938-1948], 1950-1960,
1961-1965, undated
2.325/P62
Family of Paxton Dunn (3 folders),
1963-1971
2.325/P62
Paxton Dunn (2 folders),
[1944-1954], 1955, [1960-1962], 1972-1983,
undated
2.325/P62
Eugenia Fritz,
[1945-1952], 1958-1962, 1969-1979, 1984-1986,
undated
2.325/P62
Alexander Tays,
1929-1937, 1943-1952, 1954-1958,
undated
2.325/P62
Clemente Tays,
1932, undated
2.325/P62
Eugene Tays,
1929, 1931-1939, 1947, 1959-1965, 1966-1970,
undated
2.325/P62
Eloisa Lambert,
1907, 1930-1933, 1947, 1958-1968, 1969-1973,
undated
2.325/P63
Tia Susana Vega,
1943-1953, [1954-1960,
1960-1967]
2.325/P63
Death of E. A. H. Tays,
1928, 1929
2.325/P63
Death of George Tays,
1958
2.325/P63
Martin, Joaquin, and Jesus Vega Gaxiola,
1943, [1949-1959], 1960-1965
2.325/P63
Argelia Gaxiola Vega,
1951-1961, [1962-1969],
undated
2.325/P63
Lucie Price,
[1969-1979], 1980-1982,
undated
2.325/P63
Henry Clift,
1952-1958, 1968-1977,
undated
2.325/P63
Assorted in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins,
1932, 1936-1945, [1955-1969], 1970-1973,
undated
2.325/P63
Additional family correspondence, unsorted (3
folders)
2.325/P63
Assorted correspondence (4 folders),
1918-1919
2.325/P63
Correspondence, friends:
2.325/P63
Bundles letters from servicemen,
1918-1919
2.325/P63
Roscoe B, Gaither,
[ca. 1950-1974]
2.325/P63
Letters to Linda Tays Dunn and husband,
1940-1949, 1960-1966
2.325/P63
Correspondence, general:
2.325/P63
Estate of Alexander Tays,
1960, [1964-1965], 1967
2.325/P63
Claim against Southern Pacific de Mexico Railroad,
1958-1964
2.325/P63
San Blas, Sinaloa,
[ca. 1950-1955]
2.325/P64
Rancho "de la Vega" (Vega Family Ranch),
1927, 1948-1955, 1960-1970,
1971-1972
2.325/P64
Assorted business matters,
1919, 1931, [1933-1944], 1945-1947, 1951, 1954,
1958, 1960-1970, 1970-1980, 1982-1986
2.325/P64
Creative works:
2.325/P64
Journals,
undated
2.325/P64
Published articles by Linda Tays Dunn and W. E.
Dunn,
1943, 1945, 1966
2.325/10Dk
Sheet music,
undated
2.325/P64
Bound diaries,
1921, 1926, 1937, 1961,
1976-1977
2.325/P64
Collected materials:
2.325/P64
Mexican Revolutionary [news]papers,
1908, 1914, 1916, 1929,
undated
2.325/P64
Copper Canyon route-Chihuahua al Pacifico RR,
1963-1964
2.325/P64
Dr. Herbert E. Bolton's letters (photocopies),
1906
2.325/P64
St. Clement's Episocopal Church,
1871 (copy), 1920, 1960-1970,
undated
2.325/P64
History of San Blas, Sinaloa, Mexico,
1964-1977-1979
2.325/P64
Civic organizations,
1936, 1938, 1949, 1967-1970, 1978,
1980-1982
2.325/P64
Newspaper clippings about Mexico,
1964, 1977-1979
2.325/P64
Assorted artciles,
1960-1989
2.325/P64
Assorted items (3 folders),
1905-1987, undated
2.325/P64
Mementos, death notices, birthday cards,
[ca. 1906], 1955-1962, 1988
2.325/P64
Financial records:
2.325/P64
Personal finances,
1926, 1928, [1967-1985]
2.325/P65
Business finances,
1951-[1969-1975], 1977
2.325/P65
Nuveen Bond Fund,
1963-1974
2.325/P65
Legal documentation,
1937, 1945, 1948-1957, undated
2.325/P65
Legal documentation,
1893-1974:
2.325/D10k
Birth certificate, re-issued,
1973
2.325/D10k
Testimonio,
1958
2.325/P65
Casa Tays:
2.325/P65
Correspondence with Margarita Gaxiola (2 folders),
1967-1983
2.325/P65
Financial records (2 folders),
1923-1987
2.325/D10k
Legal documents,
1776, 1795, 1923-1949:
2.325/D10k
Testimonio,
1925
2.325/P65
Educational records,
1915-1917
2.325/P65
Pupil to Pupil program,
1938-1962
2.325/P65
Collected printed material
2.325/P65
William Edward Dunn:
2.325/P65
Correspondence:
2.325/P65
Personal (2 folders),
1918, 1921-1926, 1930-1937, [1940-1957],
1961-1966
2.325/P65
Foreign Service,
1913, 1927, 1929, 1936-1962
2.325/P65
Academic,
1911-1935, 1966
2.325/P65
Presidents, Senators, and Naval officials,
1919-1961
2.325/P65
Related,
1946-1950
2.325/P65
Denby Claim (4 folders),
1962-1966
2.325/P65
Henry Clift file, Oklahoma Land Deal,
1954-1968
2.325/P65
The University of Texas at Austin gift,
[ca. 1964-1966]
2.325/P65
San Leon, Texas, property,
[ca. 1928-1968]
2.325/P66
Items relating to professional life:
2.325/P66
Reports, memoranda, correspondence,
1936, 1946, 1953
2.325/P66
Identification materials,
1914, 1916, [1942-1949]
2.325/P66
Assorted documents,
1934, 1936, 1959
2.325/P66
Creative works,
1922, undated
2.325/P66
Printed materials,
1922, [1946-1962], 1987, 1989
2.325/P66
Clippings,
1917, 1930, 1948, 1966
2.325/P66
Financial documentation,
1946-1962
2.325/P66
Paxton Dunn:
2.325/P66
Assorted correspondence,
1935, [1947-1953], 1988
2.325/P66
Aircraft accident,
1953
2.325/P66
Credentials, biography and test scores,
1930, 1954-1956, 1972
2.325/P66
Pamphlet and ration stamp book,
undated
2.325/P66
Obituaries and memorials,
1988-1989
2.325/P66
Eugenia Dunn and family,
1926, 1947-1951, 1961
2.325/P66
Tays Family mining properties:
2.325/P66
Correspondence:
2.325/P66
General (9 folders):
2.325/P66
Undated, December 31, 1914-March 7,
1931
2.325/P66
March 30, 1931-June 27, 1933
2.325/P66
June 28, 1933-January 24,
1934
2.325/P66
Janaury 27, 1934-June 13,
1935
2.325/P66
June 13, 1935-September 7,
1939
2.325/P66
March 13, 1940-June 20, 1946
2.325/P66
June 21, 1946-May 24, 1950
2.325/P66
December 3, 1957-May 30,
1985
2.325/P66
Related,
1921-1954
2.325/P66
James Edgar Thompson,
1920-1935
2.325/P66
Mexinter, S. A.,
[1962-1965], 1967, undated
2.325/P67
Paxton Dunn,
1974-1978
2.325/P67
La Mina Azteca papers,
1896, 1923, 1932-1942, 1958, 1983,
undated
2.325/P67
Financial documentation
2.325/P67
Legal documentation
2.325/P67
E. A. H. Tays:
2.325/P67
Pressbook,
1897-1899
2.325/P67
Correspondence,
1918-1928
2.325/P67
History of Azteca and Aztequita,
1957
2.325/P67
Reports,
1898, 1906, 1914-1924, 1925-1934, 1942-1956, 1965-1976,
undated(2 folders)
2.325/P67
Reclaiming Mezquital,
1927-1955
2.325/P67
Stockholders,
1932-1979
2.325/P67
Stock certificates,
1903-1974
2.325/P67
Maps,
1898-1940
2.325/P67
Mexican mining laws,
1961-1966
2.325/P67
Printed material,
1909-1920
2.325/P67
Treasure Mountain Gold Mining Company,
1936-1970
2.325/D10b
Oversize certificates
2.325/D10c
Surveyor's map