TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Creator Sketch
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Correspondence
Manuscript Materials
Business Records of Benjamin S. Davidson and the American
Pneumatic Equipment Corporation
Printed Materials
Newspapers and Clippings
Photocopies
Transcripts
Photographs
Negatives [Restricted]
Scrapbooks and Photo Albums
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A Guide to the Trimble (David B.) Collection, 1764, 1783 -
1994
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Creator: |
Trimble (David
B.) |
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Title |
Trimble (David B.)
Collection |
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Identification: |
2000-020 |
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Extent |
3 ft. of manuscript and
printed materials; approximately 400 photographs; 32 tintypes; 3 cased images;
approximately 600 negatives; 13 photo albums and scrapbooks |
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Language |
English. |
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Repository |
Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
David B. Trimble, family historian and
genealogist, self published a series of books on his family's history, which he
traced back to the late 18th century. The Trimble family and their ancestors
lived in Texas, Tennessee and Virginia with more distant relatives in Illinois.
Members of the Buchanan and Gillespie branches served in the Civil War. The
Hestand family had connections to the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee the 1870s.
Benjamin S. Davidson co-owned the American Pneumatic Equipment Corporation and
held patents for shock absorbers for automobiles. Homer Trimble served in
France during WWI, and during WWII he served in the South Pacific as Lieutenant
Colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers and was awarded for his construction of
a track through the New Guinea wilderness. Edgar F. Smith was a lawyer in
Austin, Texas.
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This collection documents the Bailey, Buchanan, Davidson, Gillespie,
Hestand, Kincanon, McPherson, Nevill, Smith, Trimble, and Willis families with
correspondence, business records, land records, manuscript materials, printed
items, newspapers and clippings, and photographs. The collection dates from
1764 through 1994, but the bulk of materials date from the 1860s to 1940s. The
items illustrate daily life in small towns and rural areas in Texas and in the
South. The collection includes some items, such as the sermons of Rev. William
Tennent and a German almanac, which do not appear to be related to the family,
but collected by members of the family.
The collection is arranged by format and grouped by families
alphabetically, much as it was received from the donor. The Photocopies and
Transcripts series contain copies of letters and records which duplicate many
of the original items in this collection, though they also contain copies of
items which David Trimble did not own and are not otherwise found in this
collection. In the Correspondence series, "bundle" refers to original groupings
of letters that were tied with ribbon; the numbering here is arbitrary.
In the Scrapbook series, two albums have been dismantled due to the
deteriorating state of the materials. Photographs were taken of the album pages
before re-housing to record their original state; copies of these images are in
the folders with the photographs.
Spellings of names appear here as they
are most commonly spelled in the collection items, although some variations
exist: Nevill also spelled Neville, Hestand also spelled Hiestand, Besse also
spelled Bessie, Shell also spelled Shel, Wolfe also spelled Wolf.
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Some portions are restricted due to format. Please
contact repository for further information.
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Subjects |
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Civil War |
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Ku Klux Klan (19th
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World War I |
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World War II |
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World War II—pictorial
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Places |
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Anson, Texas |
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Austin, Texas—pictorial
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Australia—pictorial
works |
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College Station,
Texas—pictorial works |
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Denton, Texas |
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New Guinea—pictorial
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Seminole,
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Seminole, Texas—pictorial
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Snyder, Texas—pictorial
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Tennessee |
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Virginia |
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Trimble (David B.) Collection 1764,
1783 - 1994, the Center for American History, University of Texas at
Austin.
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Correspondence |
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Buchanan and Graham families,
ca. 1850s – 8/15/1911 |
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Buchanan |
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S. A. and George Buchanan [Civil War letters sent to
family; includes drawing of S. A. Buchanan]
12/25/1863 – 1/24/1865 |
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George Leigh Buchanan, [letter received from Bernice
Adelle Petty],
9/13/1902 |
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Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Buchanan, [letters received from
relatives],
7/14/1921 – 3/10/1938 |
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Family correspondence, [includes birth announcement
for Homer D. Trimble, 1922; list of children of S. C. Buchanan; letter from
Henrietta Long to David Trimble regarding this correspondence, 1958]
2/1/1921 – 2/11/1941, undated |
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Postcard correspondence with Trimble, Shell, and Beal
families, [scenic postcards of Austin, Presidio, Seminole and Snyder, Texas]
1908-1914, undated |
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Buckner, Wolfe, Davidson, and Hestand families,
6/1868 – 12/10/1918 |
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Davidson, B. S. and Effie Nevill, |
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Envelope 1,
4/2/1894 – 2/9/1901, undated |
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Envelope 2, [includes painted monogrammed ribbon]
1921 – 1938, undated |
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Davidson, Effie Nevill [letters sent to family; includes
lock of hair]
5/31 – 6/14/1929 |
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Gillespie and Kincanon
5/29/1869 – 6/11/1924, undated |
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Gilliespie |
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[Civil War letters sent to family]
5/29/1861 – 12/4/1865, undated |
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Mary Gillespie, [poem received from James R. Hubble]
3/18/1859 |
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Kincanon, J. T. Rev., [letters sent; includes letter
from Janet Gavock Boyd to David Trimble, 1955, regarding Kincanon's
letters] 1921 |
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Nevill, Sam Houston and Lucy |
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S. H. Nevill, [letters received],
9/9/1896 – 1/21/1906, undated |
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S. H. and Lucy Nevill, [letters received],
4/26/1896 – 9/11/1905 |
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Nevill family, correspondence regarding family
genealogy,
6/2/1927 – 3/13/1935, undated |
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Smith, Edgar F. and Besse |
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Bundle 1,
6/20 – 7/4/1913 |
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Bundle 1,
7/5 – 7/20/1913, undated |
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Bundle 2,
6/25 – 7/15/1913 |
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Bundle 2,
7/16 – 7/31/1913 |
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Bundle 3,
6/3 – 7/5/1913 |
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Bundle 3,
7/11 – 7/30/1913, undated |
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Bundle 4,
8/1 – 8/7/1913 |
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Bundle 4,
8/7 – 8/14/1913 |
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Bundle 5,
8/13 – 8/19/1913 |
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Bundle 5,
8/21 – 8/24/1913 |
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Trimble, David, letter from Clarice Esse with history of
her family,
6/22/1994 |
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Trimble, Mattie [letters received from Homer
Trimble] |
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Bundle 6,
7/10 – 9/8/1918 |
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Bundle 6,
9/12/1918 – 6/12/1919 |
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Bundle 7,
4/2/1942 – 1/10/1943 |
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Bundle 7,
1/20/1942 – 10/23/1943 |
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Assorted greeting cards |
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Unidentified author/recipient,
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Manuscript Materials |
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Buchanan, John and John Wolfe, land grants, [signed by
governors James Monroe, John Tyler, Sr., and James Preston]
1783 – 1816 |
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Buchanan, Bessie, autograph book,
1900 |
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Hestand, D. B. and F. P., court summons regarding Ku
Klux Klan events and murder of a Negro; loyalty statements on their behalf,
Coffee County, TN [includes letter to David Trimble from Florence Robertson
regarding these events, 7/4/1966]
1874-1875 |
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McPherson, John, receipts and deeds,
1824 - 1851 |
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Nevill, Robertson |
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Land Records, Tennessee,
1828 – 1848 |
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Notes,
1826 – 1847, undated |
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Papers relating to estates of Benjamin Nevill and
William Stroud,
1829 – 1848, undated |
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Receipts and accounts records, |
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Envelope 1,
1827 – 1849, undated |
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Envelope 2,
1824 – 1847, undated |
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Tax receipts, contracts, assorted documents
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Nevill, J. L., Assorted papers relating to J. L. Nevill
and his brothers and sisters,
1858 – 1870s |
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Nevill, S. H. and Lucy, Receipts, business letters,
notes, checks |
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Smith, E. F. diary/accounts books,
1936, 1941 |
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Smith, E. F. and Besse, Wedding guest book,
9/24/1913 |
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Tennent, Reverend William, manuscript of first sermons,
1764 |
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Trimble, David B. drafts and notes of unpublished
article on Civil War letters [from this collection],
undated |
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Willis, William B. and Peter, Receipts, business
documents, letters to S. H. Nevill,
1830s – 1850s |
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Business Records of Benjamin S. Davidson and the American
Pneumatic Equipment Corporation |
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Correspondence |
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12/4/1919 – 7/5/1923 |
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7/7/1923 – 11/14/1925 |
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Patents |
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Letters of Patent for Shock Absorbers
5/15/1923, 3/18/1924 |
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Official Copy of Patent,
3/5/1921 |
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Assignment of Application for Letters of Patent,
1923 |
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Assorted Patents,
1914-1930 |
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Blueprints for Equipment
1921, undated |
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Legal Documents,
6/26/1914 – 1/12/1923 |
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Financial Documents,
1920-1922 |
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History of Corporation,
undated |
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Printed Materials
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W. T. Fitz Gerald & Co., Information booklets,
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Poindexter Automatic Air Springs, brochures,
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Printed Materials |
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Bailey, B. F., Ranch/Farm Contract/Lease and Mortgage
papers,
1904-1909 |
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Buchanan, Patrick Campbell, Civil War Commission from
Commonwealth of Virginia,
8/21/1861 |
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Buchanan, William, Certificate of Appointment as
Postmaster,
9/21/1885 |
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Business cards and calling cards
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The Chapparral [Yearbook of Anson High School; with MS
Christmas lists by Zella Davidson]
1913 |
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Calendar, "Gaines County Land, Corn and Hogs",
1911 |
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Commencement Programs |
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College of Industrial Arts,
1922 |
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Sam Houston State Normal School,
1885 |
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University of Texas,
1932 |
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Daughters of the American Revolution, Dedication of the
George Washington Monument at UT,
2/22/1932 |
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Death Announcements and Funeral Notices |
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Hiram Gist,
4/20/1898 |
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Levi H. Gist,
1/7/1905 |
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Effie Nevill Davidson,
8/2/1929 |
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G. C. Buchanan,
8/31/1933 |
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Der Boltsfreund und Haegerstauner
Calender, [includes photocopies]
1806 |
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Johnson, Lyndon Baines, Invitation to Inauguration
[addressed to Marion Trimble]
1/20/1965 |
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The Gaines County Story
1905-1955,
[1955] |
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Marriage Announcements |
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Effie Nevill and B. S. Davidson,
5/16/1899 |
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Allie Maxwell and Cecil E. Evans,
5/18/1899 |
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Mary K. Buchanan and Finis E. Shell,
11/25/1907 |
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Mary Zella Davidson and Homer B. Trimble,
11/23/1921 |
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Nevill, S. H. [items bundled with his
letters] |
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Advertisement/order form for Womack Bros. Distillery,
ca. 1900 |
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Self-Examination and Consultation Blank [medical
form] |
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Special Notice, Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets |
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Smith, E. F. and Besse Buchanan, marriage license,
9/25/1913 |
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Trimble, Homer |
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Pocket New Testament,
1918 |
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A Pocket Guide to New
Guinea, [U. S. Army publication],
1943 |
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News Report transcript [?],
12/19/1943 |
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Trimble, Charley and Mattie, Land records, receipts and
assorted records,
1909 – 1941 |
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Unforgettable Niagara,
[souvenir book],
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Newspapers and Clippings |
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The Coming West,
8-9/1901, 9/19/1970 |
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The Cyclone,
9/1887 |
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The Dallas Morning News,
6/13/1913 |
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The Seminole Sentinel,
1907-1913 |
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The Scurry County Times,
[souvenir reprint]
1971 |
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The Summer Texan,
1932 |
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The Western Observer,
5/23/1947 |
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Assorted Clippings |
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Photocopies |
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Bailey, B. F. papers |
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Buchanan Civil War letters |
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Buchanan records |
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Buchanan and Gillespie letters from Virginia |
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Davidson-Wolfe letters and grants |
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Gillespie Civil War letters |
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Graham lawsuit records (inheritance dispute) |
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Hestand records and letters |
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Hestand-Nevill letters (Ku Klux Klan
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Kincanon, Reverend J. T. letters |
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McPherson deeds |
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Nevill, Benjamin and William Stroud estates
records |
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Nevill, Lucy letters (regarding her and her
sons) |
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Nevill, Robertson |
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Land records |
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Business records |
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Nevill-Buckner letters from Tennessee |
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Trimble records from Georgia |
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Trimble, Charlie letters and obituaries |
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Wolfe-Davidson lawsuit records (land
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Willis family papers and letters to Robertson
Nevill |
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Assorted letters [unidentified families] |
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Transcripts |
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Buchanan Civil War letters |
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Buchanan letters and records |
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Gillespie Civil War letters |
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Hestand letters |
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Photographs |
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Family Portraits,
ca. 1850s-1950s |
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Alderson, Malcolm |
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Bailey |
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Buchanan family |
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C. R. Buchanan and Bealls |
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in Virginia, and distant relatives |
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"Mellards, Egertons, Heards, Shells, Aunt Besse
& Unk, Benjoe & Nellie" |
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Older photos |
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Davidson |
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Davidson, B. S. and Darnel |
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Family members in Indiana |
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Hamilton |
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Hestand, Gist, Bennett |
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Mellard |
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Nevill |
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Pierce, Sally |
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Shaw |
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Shell |
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Smith, E. F. and Besse |
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Trimble |
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Trimble, Homer |
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Wolfe, I. J. |
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Assorted individuals |
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Unidentified, "from Peter Dozier" |
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Unidentified, "from Howard Wolfe of Catlin,
Illinois" |
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Unidentified, "from B. S. Davidson album" |
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Assorted and unidentified |
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Family Snapshots
ca. 1930s-1960s |
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Buchanan Castle,
1967 |
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Buchanan Family (including Shell, Smith, Trimble,
Heard) |
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Family houses |
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Family in Indiana |
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Smith, Edgar F. and Besse |
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Assorted |
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Vacation photos,
1934-1937 |
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Texas towns |
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Trimble |
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Unidentified |
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Assorted Photographs |
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First telephone exchange in
Anson, TX [reproduction] |
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Homer Trimble's photos from
New Guinea during WWII
ca. 1941 - 1944 |
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Lee House,
Arlington, Virginia |
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Personnel of the Attorney General's Office, Austin,
TX,
1921 |
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Wolfe family cemetery, [with captions]
ca. 1960 |
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Postcards |
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Tin Types
[ca. 1860s-1890s] |
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Buchanan and Trimble families |
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Wolfe, Susan |
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Davidson, Benjamin Soul ca. 1879 |
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Nevill, S. H. |
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Unidentified, "from Peter Dozier" |
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Unidentified, "from Howard Wolfe of Catlin,
Illinois" |
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Oversize and mounted photos
ca. 1900s – 1930s |
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11x15 inches or smaller |
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Anson, Texas |
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Alderson, Malcolm |
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Buchanan families |
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B. S. Davidson home,
Anson, TX, 1900 |
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Davidson and Hestand family portrait
ca. 1900s |
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First courthouse in
Seminole, TX (with F. E. Shell)
ca 1900s-1910s |
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Grace, Hybernia |
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Heard, Evelyn
ca. 1930s |
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Hico Normal Students,
1901 |
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Leach, Walter |
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Midland [Texas] Shipping
Pens |
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Pickens, Mr. and Mrs. J. D., (wedding portraits)
ca. 1920s |
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Smith, Besse,
1920 |
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Smith, E. F.
ca. 1940s |
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Trimble family apartment,
Austin, TX, 1935 |
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Unidentified |
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Buchanan family,
1911 |
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Pierce, Abel and Ruth Harrison |
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Trimble, Charles |
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Panoramic Photographs [rolled] |
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American Bar Association,
Boston, MA, 8/26/1936 |
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Garden Party for the ladies of the Texas Bar
Association,
Fort Worth, TX,
7/6/1934 |
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Cased and Framed Photographs |
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Unidentified children |
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Unidentified man |
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Unidentified man [broken] |
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Negatives [Restricted] |
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Buchanan and Trimble families, tin type
reproductions |
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Davidson family,
ca. 1920s-1940s |
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Gillespie, George Washington |
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Trimble family,
ca. 1920s-1940s |
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Zella Trimble |
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Trimble, Mattie B. (clerk, Scurry Co.,
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Scrapbooks and Photo Albums |
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Buchanan-Smith-Heard families,[
Seminole, Snyder, Austin, San Antonio, TX]
1900s-1920s |
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Davidson, Zella "Mutts I have Met" [friends and
classmates],
1917-1918 |
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Davidson Trimble, Zella, [including scenes and houses in
Anson, TX]
1920s |
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Davidson Trimble, Zella (including graduation from
College of Industrial Arts,
Denton, TX 1922),
1920s |
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Smith family,
1930s-1940s |
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Smith, E. F. and Besse, (including scenes of
Austin, TX)
1930s |
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[Trimble, Homer] Scenes of soldiers in
Australia, New Guinea and Okinawa, Japan
during WWII,
1942 -1945 |
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by page number] |
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[dismantled; in folders labeled "album 2", organized
by page number] |
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Five girls, including Zella Davidson, in
Anson, TX; reunion in
1916-171933 |
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Family snapshots, including Davidson and Nevill
families, (2),
1900s-1910s |
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Unidentified loose pages, [scenes of
College Station, TX and Texas A&M
wrestlers]
1920s |
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Unidentified [Zella Davidson ?] [family scenes, Navy
sailors, College of Industrial Arts faculty, vacation in
Colorado] [ includes folder of invitations,
clippings and photographs from the pocket in the album]
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