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Report card for William Harvey Maverick, son of San Antonio mayor Samuel Maverick, from the University of North Carolina in 1866.

United States passport document belonging to William J. Fitzsimmons, issued in 1869 with a stamped signature of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. According to Fitzsimmons's descendant, the pass was issued so that Fitzsimmons could travel from Baltimore to Virginia to check on family.

Credential certificates of Reverend John Shackleford Gillett (1838-1910), West Texas Conference.

1880 teaching certificate granted to Reverend H.F. Young in Hopkins County, Texas, with handwritten renewals on the verso through 1887.

1899 application by Laura Schaefer of San Antonio, Texas, for membership in the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Souvenir program for the Cattles Raisers Association of Texas convention held in San Antonio, Texas, March 1901.

Collection of circulars, pamphlets, speeches, and other ephemera related to the Wilmot Proviso. The Wilmot Proviso was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 by Congressman David Wilmot as a provision of an appropriations bill. The proviso sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. The bill passed in the House but failed in the Senate. Although it did not pass into law, the Wilmot Proviso is credited with intensifying the slavery debate in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Collection consists of eighteen concert programs from the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, dated between 1915 and 1918.

Flyer distributed by the Onderdonk Memorial Association seeking support for the purchase of Julian Onderdonk's final painting, "Dawn in the Hills," on behalf of the city of San Antonio. The text in the flyer is credited to J. Frank Davis.

Program for the 150th anniversary touring production of "The Rivals" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, performed at the Empire Theatre on December 2, 1925.

Program to the thirty-fifth annual convention of the American National Live Stock Association, held in San Antonio in January 1932.

Collection of ephemera and correspondence related to major literary figures. This material was collected by Helen Miller Jones, and is a companion to her rare book collection, now part of the holdings at Coates Library Special Collections & Archives.

Christmas card (circa 1936) signed by "Colonel" Edward M. House, accompanied by a photograph of House and an unidentified man.

Three scrapbooks containing collections of matchbook covers, primarily from the 1930s and 1940s. Two scrapbooks are inscribed with the names of their respective collectors, Norman Strain and Charles C. Bush III. While the collections contain matchbook covers from around the country, the primary source is the American Southwest.

Brochure for the Escuela Interamericana de Verano, a summer school for Americans looking to learn Spanish in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

Brochure presenting the history, charter, and plans for the Texas Sculptors Group.

Program for the 1948 Caldwell County Centennial coronation and pageant.

Collection of correspondence and ephemera related to the history of a Texas family. The central figure in this collection is Mattie Strickland Russell; other correspondents in the collection include her husband, Richard Robertson Russell; her daughter, Elma Dill Spencer; her son-in-law, Richard French Spencer; her father, George Strickland; and her grandparents, Amos and Emily Strickland, among others. Additional correspondence to Mattie Russell is from children's author Will James. The collection also contains biographical information about her father, George Strickland. In addition, the collection contains ephemera related to Texas history.

Two copies of a 1963-1964 booklet for the South San Antonio chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Program for a production of "Marat/Sade" put on by the First Repertory Company of San Antonio in 1969.