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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Organization of Collection

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Original Deposit of July 2007 (Acc. 2007-070)

Addition of July 2007 (Acc. 2007-091)

University of Texas San Antonio

Inventory of the Garland A. Perry Papers, 1876-2002



Descriptive Summary

Creator: Perry, Garland A.
Title: Garland A. Perry papers
Dates: 1876-1903, 1914-1919, 1940-2002
Creator Abstract: Garland A. Perry is the author of An American Saga: William George Hughes, 1859-1902: A Pioneer Texas Rancher, His Life, His Times, His Story and the author and photographer of Historic Images of Boerne, Texas.
Content Abstract: The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, research files, correspondence, calenders, scrapbooks and family papers.
Identification: MS 239
Extent: 12.3 linear feet (13 boxes)
Language: Materials are in English.
Repository: Archives and Special Collections Department, Library, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Biographical Note

Garland A. Perry was born in San Augustine County, Texas and is a graduate of Rusk High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from San Houston State University and a MHA Degree in Hospital Administration from Baylor University. Perry is a veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam. When he retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1967, he moved his family from Houston to Boerne. In Boerne, Perry worked as director of marketing, public relations, and advertising manager for the First National Bank of Boerne. He also provided a historical advertisigin program for additional Hill Country banks. From 1987-1993, Perry served as Kendall County Judge.

Perry is a self-taught photographer who has won numerous awards for his photographs of a variety of subjects. He is the author of Historic Images of Boerne, Texas, a 1982 book about German immigrants in Kendall County and the Texas Hill Country that earned an award for historic books from the 1983 San Antonio Conservation Society. Perry is also the author ofAn American Saga: William George Hughes, 1859-1902: A Pioneer Texas Rancher, His Life, His Times, His Story , which is the story of Hughes who emigrated to the U.S in 1878 and established a 7000 acre ranch near Boerne, Texas.

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Scope and Content Note

The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, research files, correspondence, calenders, scrapbooks and family papers.

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Organization of Collection

Original Deposit of July 2007 (Acc. 2007-070)
Addition of July 2007 (Acc. 2007-091)

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Usage Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

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Index Terms

Personal Names
Perry, Garland A.
Hughes, William George,1859-1902.
Hughes, William George,1859-1902--Correspondence.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life--Texas--Kendall County.
Ranchers--Texas--Kendall County.
Ranch life--Texas--Kendall County.
Locations
Texas--History.
Kendall County (Tex.)--History.
Boerne (Tex.)--History.
Genres/Formats
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Research notes.

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Related Material

There are no known other archival collections created by Garland A. Perry at the date of accessioning.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Garland A. Perry papers, MS 239, Archives and Special Collections, University of Texas at San Antonio Library.

Acquisition Information

Received from the Institute of Texan Cultures Library in July 2007 (Acc.2007-070 and 2007-091).

Processing Information

More detailed processing is not anticipated at this time.

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Preliminary Inventory of the Garland A. Perry papers

 

Original Deposit of July 2007 (Acc. 2007-070)

Box Folder
1 1 Houston Chronicle Texas Magazine, Nov 10, 1968
2 Photos
3 Photos
4 Forty Years after the Argonne, manuscript
5 Photos
6 Photograph request from Imperial War Museum, copies of WWI photos, lists of photos, U.S. Airforce book program,
7 Photos, possible covers for book
8 Photos,
Correspondence, ST-Mihiel American Military Cemetary and Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission France Area
Data for Canadian War Museum WWI prints, prints list
Manuscript chapter
9 Booklets, Photo, 45 Years After the Argonne
10 Negatives, newspaper clippings, photo captions
11 Photocopied maps and photos
12 Rails West pamphlet, This Was Air Travel announcement
13 WWI themed Art prints
14 Correspondence letter
15 Photograph negatives and film
16 Slides
17 negatives
Box Folder
2 1 Heritage Stories, published extras
2 TX Heritage, best
3 Photographic subjects
4 TX Heritage, published stories
5 Fort McKavatt
6 San Felipe, Texas
7 Kerr County, Kerrville
8 Fort Parker
9 Fort Croghan
10 August Faltin Store, Comfort, TX
11 John D. Meusebach
12 World War I
13 Camp Verde Store
14 Crenshaw Brothers (Ingram)
15 Roland Nichols—Ingram
16 Charles A. Schreiner, Kerrville
17 Southern Hotel- Llano
18 Stagecoach Lines
19 Keystone Hotel- Lampasas
20 Gatesville Courthouse (Coryell County)
21 Enchanted Rock
22 Winedale Stagecoach Inn, Round Top
23 Chappell Hill Inn, Chappell Hill
24 Fanthrop Inn, Anderson
25 Campbell Taylor House, Bastrop
26 Agricultural Day in Texas
27 St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Honey Creek
28 Argyle Club, San Antonio
29 Ft. Sam Houston
30 Ad Toepperwein
31 Dr. Kapp’s “Water Cure Sanitarium”
32 Comfort, TX
33 Luckenbach
34 J. Marvin Hunter
35 Turtle Creek School
36 Hermann Sons Home for the Aged (Center Point)
37 Landmark Inn (Castroville)
38 Courthouse (Castroville)
39 Fischer Store (Comal County)
40 Karnes County Courthouse (old)
41 Andrew Jackson Potter “Fighting Parson”
42 H.O. Adler Bldg,
43 Anhalt Verein
44 Baptist Church
45 Bergheim
46 Max Beseler Bar
47 Kaiser House
48 Kendalia
49 Kendall Inn
50 Kendall County Courthouse
51 Kendall County Jail
52 Kreuzberg Shooting Club
53 Kronkosky Tower
54 L.N. Lavallee House
55 Leesch-Harz House
56 Leon Springs (settlement)
57 Lindendale
58 Livery Stable
59 Malakoph Mountain
60 Masonic Lodge
61 McCord-Monken House
62 Methodist Church
63 Methodist Pasonage
64 Pfieffer House
65 Phillip House Manor (Phillip Manor House)
66 Railroad Tunnel
67 Robert E. Lee House
68 Roberts Drug Store
69 Roxelle House (Herff)
70 SA & AP Railroad
71 Railroad Bridge (Guadalupe River)
72 Gustav Schattenberg House
73 Sisterdale (Behr House)
74 Scheppe (Bradshaw House)
75 Shumard House
76 St. John Lutheran Church
77 St. Joseph Catholic Church (Honey Creek)
78 St. Peters Catholic Church
79 Maria Sykes House
80 Theis House
81 A. S. Toepperwein House
82 “Tusculum”
83 Utilities Bldg.
84 Joe Vogt Bldg.
85 Vollbrecht’s Tin Shop
86 Vollschaeger- Mergele House
87 William Vogt House
88 Walker- Coryell House
89 Walnut Grove Resort
90 Waring Depot
91 Weiss House
92 Welfare
93 Henry Wendler House
94 Dietert House (Accent Shop)
95 Henry Dietert House (Droste)
96 Episcopal Church
97 William Dietert House
98 Fabra Smokehouse
99 Hartmann House (115 E. James)
100 Historical House
101 Annie Fellows Johnston House (609 E. Theissen St.)
102 Comfort (Faltin House)
103 Comfort (General Store)
104 Comfort (Meyer Hotel)
105 Comfort (monument)
106 Dr. Diamond’s Hospital
107 Dienger House
108 Max Beseler House
109 Boerne Cemetary
110 Boerne Library
111 Boerne School
112 Carstanjen Bldg.
113 Circle “S” Saloon
114 Wernette-McGinnis House
115 Weyrick-Beissner Bldg.
116 Chat Wilkinson House
117 Dr. Wright’s Sanitarium
118 Windsor Stagecoach Stop
119 Alleyton, Texas
120 Behr House (Kendall County) Sisterdale
121 Boerne White Sox (baseball team)
122 Camp Verde
123 Cherry Springs-Rode House
124 Dice for Life (early History)
125 Frontier Forts
126 Lange’s Mill (Doss)
127 Luckenbach, TX
128 SA AP RR Tunnel (Old Hwy 9)
129 Stage Coach Inn, Llano
130 Westphalia (Falls City)
131 World’s Richest Acre (Kilgore)
Box Folder
3 1 WWI Research
2 Outline
3 Photocopies of newspapers, photos, and maps
4 Flanders Then and Now, book
5 Houston Chronicle, Texas Magazine, Nov., 10, 1968
6 Cemetery photos, 7 ziplock bags
7 Photos and order sheets for photos
8 Correspondence
9 Notes
10 Maps
11 Commonwealth War Graves Commissions papers
12 Photos
13 Maps etc.
14 Eddie Rickenbacker
15 VHS, WWI Gerald H. Hughes 1895-1996
16 Forty Years After the Argonne, manuscript
17 Writings
18 WWI book material and photos
19 202-245 (photos)
Box Folder
4 1 Correspondence letters
2 Maps and cemetery information
3 Other (Forty Years After the Argonne manuscript)
4 End of War
5 Maps and negatives
6 Eakin Press
7 A Hand on Their Shoulder, manuscript
8 2 floppy disks, Perry book art 1 & 2
9 4 maps
10 3 cemetery pamphlets
11 Photos
12 Original Manuscript
13 Book, WWI
14 The Beginning
15 Catalog copy
16 German offense 1918
17 Text
18 Middle years of war
19 Photos
20 Forty Years After the Argonne, manuscript
21 Correspondence
22 Newspaper clippings
23 Photo misc.
24 Pamphlets, maps
25 Notes, photocopies
26 Publishing agreement (Pictorial History of WWI)
27 Poems
28 Manuscript chapters
29 Manuscript
30 Envelope, WWI
31 Notes, legal pads
32 Manuscript, Forty Years After the Argonne
33 121-210 photos
Box Folder
5 1 Bag with film
2 Film Storage bib.
3 Hughes Sons WWI binder
4 Ad Hoc/ Miscellaneous
5 Pictures—(old) Research, Images of Boerne
6 Research Images of Boerne
7 Negatives, photos
8 Otto Zoeller paper
9 Historical Images of Boerne, Texas paper
10 The Waring Story booklet
11 Boerne Village Band photo
12 Photo
13 Village Band Research
14 Boerne (Kendall County) Research
Box Folder
6 1 Photos from Hughes family to Perry family
2 Photos at Ranch, 1879-1900
3 William George Hughes story
4 As I Remember It, story
5 Letters to Jerry Hughes (1987-1995), from Garland Perry
6 Hughes photo and obit. Notice
7 Vol. 1, Hughes letters, 1988-1990
Box Folder
7 1 Herman Lehmann Story, 1985
2 Research, Indians
3 Nine Years with Indians
4 Herman-Lehmann, Research
5 Angora Goats—Olive Schreiner
6 Polo and Cricket
7 Interview and paper on Max Theiss
8 Boerne History
9 Political Issues
10 Boerne, Kendall County, statistics
11 Kendall county
12 Comfort research
13 Research, Hill Country
14 Research, churches
15 Research, banks
16 Research, Ingram
17 Research, Fredricksburg
18 Kerrville research
19 General research, Perry
20 Photo of building
21 Divide School, Kerr County
22 Letters from Jerry Hughes about Angora goats, olive Schreiner, Landrum & son Frank C. Landrum, J. Landrum
23 Research, Missions
24 People research
25 People
26 Research—Lampasas
27 Texas—Sesquicentennial, 1986
28 Research, Llano
29 Research, jails
30 Lumber Insdustry
31 Texas Almanac (old)
32 Texas Almanac (old)
33 John C. Stout family
34 John C. Stout family
35 Polo paper
36 El Max Ranch rough draft and paper
37 Albert Kronkosky paper
38 Great Grandmother Ulle with photo
39 Kendall Co. Judges
40 Copy, newspaper article, Cover the War
41 Images of Boerne, working file
42 Reference material, images of Boerne
43 Images of Boerne
44 Images of Boerne, Historical Tapes, 1985-1986
45 Images of Boerne—Extra Material
Box Folder
8 1 Images of Boerne
2 J.M. Forbes story, by Jerry Hughes
3 Research, People whom I wish I had known
4 Categories of Land Grants in Texas
5 Fort pamphlets
6 Photos, Lampasas Courthouse
7 For Your Holiday Pleasure, Texas Heritage Series 1984 & 85 Calendars
8 Stage coach stops
9 Railroad Depots—research
10 Courthouse research
11 Negatives
12 Lockhart and Bryan Library
13 1982 calendar
14 Forts—Maps
15 Stagecoarch Inn Calendars, 1985
16 Courthouses research
17 Calendars, courthouses 1984
18 Texas Public Library Material
19 Binder, photos
20 photos
21 Miscellaneous—National Archives, Government letters
22 Correspondence 1876-1886
23 Correspondence, No date
24 Correspondence, 1888-1903
25 Letters
26 Hughes letters
27 letters
Box Folder
9 1 Ribbons
2 Notes
3 Hughes Boy’s pictures
4 Gerard Hughes—Obit
5 Hughes Family letters
6 Upham Storry
7 Hughes Girls
8 Jeanie Hughes
9 Hughes History, Boerne Academy and Commercial College 1889-90
10 Hughes History, letters to Hughes
11 American Saga research
12 Hughes history, family
13 Hughes Documents
14 Hughes Property, Charts and Maps
15 Hughes Land, Bought and sold
16 Sheep and goats
17 Pictures at ranch
18 pictures
19 Ranch pictures @ Hughes ranch
20 Pictures, maps
21 Photocopies
22 Maps, letterheads, etc
23 Alliance legal documents
Box Folder
10 1 Advertising
2 Letters written by Willie
3 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings
4 Book, The Angora Goat
5 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings
6 Paper Grandfather’s Story
7 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, 1889
8 Hughes Ranche—Texas survey,
9 Photos
10 Hughes Story WWI
11 Willy Hughes letters, manila envelope
12 Correspondence, manila envelope
13 Jerry Hughes Obituary, G. A. Perry letters and photos
14 Correspondence
15 Upham Family
16 Jerry Hughes letters, Jean Tuhune and other Hughes
17 Genealogy papers
18 Hughes files
19 Correspondence, photos
20 Ads
22 Bright letters
23 Advertising, American saga

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Addition of July 2007 (Acc. 2007-091)

Box Folder
1 1 Postcards
2 Notebook, Hughes letters
3 Printouts and photocopies in black folder
4 Family histories

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