Manuscript Collections
PERSONAL PAPERS
- Barry A. Crouch Collection
- Research notes and records created and collected on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas
- Sidney Roper Weisiger Papers
- Notes on people, places, and events in Victoria and surrounding counties
(till 1975).
- John. L. Jarratt Papers
- Notes on archaeological excavations in Victoria and surrounding counties
Of special interest:
—La Salle/Fort Saint Louis (Keeran Site)
—Mission Espiritu Santo (Tonkawa Bank Site)
- Captain Leon A. Poor Papers
- Union Army quartermaster (1st division, 4th Army Corps) stations
at Port Lavaca/Indianola from January 1865 to June 1866.
Papers include:
—Diary
—Letters from his wife in North Oxford, Massachusetts
- George Tyng Papers
- George Tyng (1839-1906), cattle ranchers, U.S. marshal, managing director
of the Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad, miner, called "father"
of the Panhandle.
— Correspondence and papers primarily concerning his mining and
railroad interests, 1879-1903
- Gilbert Onderdonk Papers
- Gilbert Onderdonk (1829-1920), pioneer pomologist, horticulturist.
Papers include:
— Notes and essays, undated
— Correspondence, 1856-1908
— "Pomological Possibilities of Texas," by Gilbert Onderdonk
in Bulletin of the Texas Department of Agriculture, 1911.
- Alfred Brown Peticolas papers
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Alfred Brown Peticolas (1938-1915), attorney, artist,
diarist
- William Larrabee Callender Papers
- William Larrabee Callender (1815-1895(, attorney and judge in Victoria,
Texas)
Papers include:
— Correspondence, including Civil War letters
— Personal papers, 1840s to 1890s
- Charles August Leuschner Papers
- Charles August Leuschner (1845-1912, served in the Civil War under
Company B, Sixth Texas Infantry
Papers include:
— Civil War Diary, 1864-1865
- Joseph Daniel Mitchell Papers
- Joseph Daniel Mitchell (1848-1922), entomologist and conchologist
- Indianola Immigrant Database
- A project of the Victoria County Historical Commission to assemble lost information
about the Texas immigrants who entered through the port of Indianola, Texas
CLUB SCRAPBOOKS AND MINUTES
- Bronte Club
- —Minute Books, 1880-1991; Scrapbooks, 1946-1995, Yearbooks, 1894-present
- Currer Bell Study Club
- —Scrapbooks, 1937-1982; Yearbooks, 1951-1993.
- Junior Bronte Club
- —Minute Books, 1905-1906; Yearbooks, 1905-1911, 1948-1951.
- Morning Study Club
- —Scrapbooks, 1951-1981.
- Victoria Clubhouse
- —Minutes, 1952-1985.
- Victoria Fine Arts Association
- —Business Records, 1961-1986; Scrapbook, 1975-1976.
- Victoria Music Club
- —Membership Journal, 1946-1966; Scrapbooks, 1950-1972.
- Victoria Quilting Club
- —Scrapbooks, 1978-1985.
- Victoria Symphony
- —Minutes, 1961-1991; Programs, 1975-1993.
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