Finding Aids

Below is a list of descriptions, or finding aids, to the collections held by the Dick Smith Library’s Archives and Special Collections. The finding aids assist researchers in finding information by describing the creator as well as the materials contained in each collection.

The Library offers public access to a wide range of information, including historical materials that may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes. Such materials must be viewed in the context of the relevant time period. Tarleton State University does not endorse the views expressed in such materials.

For more information on our archival collections, contact Phyllis Kinnison, Librarian / Archivist, or Archives staff at archives@tarleton.edu.

List of Finding Aids

• Alan J. Easterling Collection of the McKnight & Rudolph Journal of 1878 and related Materials, 1878-2008 
• Carl “Doc” Birdwell Collection of World War II Correspondence, 1941-1945 
• Celia Ann Shaw Photograph, circa 1948 
• Centennial Pageant Script, May 16, 1936 
• Charles Lewis Cromwell, Sr. Dental Ledger, 1920-1930 
• Clyde Henley Wells Family Papers 
• Clyde Richard King Papers, 1887-2004 
• Dick Smith Collection, 1894-1974 
• Dick Smith Library Centennial Exhibit Research, 1895-1999 
• Dorothy Kennedy Postcard Collection, 1935 
• Duffau Baptist Church Records, 1979 
• Emma Louise Cheney Auer Collection, 1950-1976 
• First Baptist Church of Abilene, Texas Records and Ephemera, 1927-1978 
• First Baptist Church of Stephenville, Texas Ephemera, 1977, 1989, 1991 
• Flora Clarke Scrapbook, 1924-1926 
• Friends of the Dick Smith Library Dinner in the Stacks display materials for Thurber, Texas program, October 21, 1995 
• Glen L. Schmidt correspondence with Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, April 1949 
• Harvey B. Belcher Collection of Mayor James Collins’ Memorial Proclamation, 1901 
• Historical Calendars Collection, 1979-1997 
• Ion Maywood Bethel Memoir: “Tall Pecans on the San Saba,” 1900-1929 
• Isaac Williams Collection of The Tarletonite, 1905-1906 
• James Powell “J.P.” Word Official Memorandum, September 20, 1969 
• James Thomas Davis, Office of the Dean Records, 1909-1952 
• Joseph R. Christopher Collection of Tarleton State University Materials, 1979-1982 
• Kindred Pemberton Interline Waybill, 1900 
• Lena Lewis Manuscripts 
• Leonard De Bennett scrapbook, 1923-1925 
• Lillie Ruth White Laird Collection of Mary L. Johnson Letters, 1884-1997
• Lillie Viola Lillard English Study Tour Scrapbook, 1934 
• Marie Meisel Cedars Papers, 1952-2006 
• Mary Anne Foreman Papers 
• Mary Anne Foreman Photograph Collection 
• Mary Marrs Collection of Erath County, Texas Photographs, circa 1890-1912 
• Morehouse & Sisson correspondence with John Tarleton, 1883 and 1885 
• Nona Wilson Wright Collection of The Erath Observer, 1974-1975 
• O.W.L.S. Scrapbooks of faculty and students killed in World War II, 1942-1945 
• Parrott A. Ator collection of John Tarleton Abstracts of Title, 1913 and 1920 
• Papers Regarding the Elevation of Tarleton State College from a two-year to a four-year institution, 1955-1957 
• Randall Popken Papers, 1959-2005 
• Roberta Clay Collection, 1925-1973 
• Stanley S. Slotkin printed book leaves collection, 1657-1797 
• Stephenville Centennial and Fall Fair Program, 1954 
• Stephenville Hospital & Clinic Floorplan, undated 
• Stephenville Historic Resources Inventory Research Files, 2015 
• Stephenville History Collection, 1954, 1957, 1974, 2007 
• Stephenville 20th Century Club Records, 1914-2012 
• Tarleton Area Educational Office Personnel (TAEOP) Records, 1987-2005 
• Tarleton Campus Club Press Books, 1955-1983 
• Tarleton Central Texas, Finance and Administration Records, 1993-2009 
• Tarleton Ninety Club Scrapbook, 1948-1951 
• Tarleton State University Centennial Celebration Materials, 1999-2000 
• Tarleton State University Department of Communications Studies Broadcast Videos, 1994-2013 
• Tarleton State University, Division of Finance and Administration, Building Projects Records, 1999-2012 
• Tarleton State University, Division of Finance and Administration, Vice President Records, 1952-2006 
• Tarleton State University Ephemera 
• Tarleton State University Trogdon House Events Guest Books, 2010-2015, 2018
• Tarleton Student Enrollment, 1917-1945 
• Tarleton Texans Scrapbook, 1962-1963 
• The Texas Miner (Thurber, Texas) Newspaper Collection, 1894-1900 
• Texas History Movies, 1928, 1943, 1956 
• “Thirty-four years in Tarleton” 
• University Files, 1902-2018 
• William Oren Trogdon, Office of the President Records, 1966-2011