Victoria Regional History Center

Major Manuscript Collections

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• Alfreda Huck Collection
  Genealogical information on families in Dewitt and nearby counties
• African American Cemeteries Database
  A project led by James Lucas to record African American cemeteries in 6 counties:
  Dewitt, Goliad, Conzales, Lavaca, Refugio, and Victoria
• Alfred Brown Peticolas papers
  Alfred Brown Peticolas (1915-1938), attorney, artist, diarist
• Barry A Crouch Collection
  Research notes and records created and collected on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas
• Captain Leander Poor Papers
  Union Army quartermaster (1st division, 4th Army Corps) stations at Port Lavaca / Indianola from January 1865-1866.
  Papers include:
  --Poor Daily Journal (facsimile copy), January 1-June 21, 1866
  Correspondence (facsimile copies), 1865-1866
• 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
• Florence Shelley Chilton Jordan Papers
  Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and notes about various local organizations in which Mrs. Jordan was involved.
• George Tyng Papers
  George Tyng (1839-1906), cattle rancher, U.S. marshal, managing director of the Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad, miner, called "father" of the Panhandle.
  --Correspondence and business papers primarily concerning his mining and railroad interests, 1879-1903; Photographs
• 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.
• 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.
• John L. Jarratt Papers
  Notes on the archaeological excavations in Victoria and surrounding counties of special interest:
  --La Salle/Fort Saint Louis (Keeran Site)
  --Mission Espiritu Santo (Tonkawa Bank Site)
• Joseph Daniel Mitchell Papers
  Joseph Daniel Mitchell (1848-1922), entomologist and conchologist
• Jules Leffland Architectural Drawings
  Jules Carl Leffland established the architectural firm of Jules C. Leffland, Architect in Victoria, Texas in the 1890s. He later formed various architectural partnerships with James C. Hull, Kai Leffland, and Sam H. Dixon, Jr. The collection includes the drawing plans from the firms of Jules Leffland, Architect (1898-1924) Hull and Leffland (undated), Leffland & Son (circa 1912-1917), and Leffland, Son & Dixon (1912).
• LaSalle Expedition and Fort St. Louis
  Articles from the Victoria Advocate, 1973-1999, as indexed by Vera Johnson and Lori Williamson
• Sidney Roper Weisiger Papers
  Notes on people, places, and events in Victoria and surrounding counties (until 1975).
• Willaim 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