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US TxSaT SC.000-041 · Folder · ca. 1923
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

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.

Onderdonk Memorial Association
"On Intemperance" pamphlet
US TxSaT SC.000-044 · Folder · 1815
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Pamphlet on intemperance, printed in New London, Connecticut by Samuel Green in 1815. Text is identical to a pamphlet on the same subject distributed by the New England Tract Society in the same year.

Green, Samuel, 1768-1859
US TxSaT SC.000-047 · Folder · 1964
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Volume 21, issue number 9 (June 1964) of the Junior League of San Antonio's newsletter, "The Bright Scrawl." This issue notes the transfer of Kitty Baker (wife of Trinity University professor Paul Baker) from the Waco Junior League to San Antonio's.

Japanese paper samples
US TxSaT SC.000-050 · Folder · unknown
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Samples of Japanese paper, including one with calligraphy. Date of creation unknown, but donor claimed some may date to the seventh century CE.

Samuel Maverick letters
US TxSaT SC.000-051 · Folder · 1849-1850
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

1849 letter from Peck & Van Hooce law firm of Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Samuel A. Maverick, with a copy of Maverick's 1850 reply on the same paper. The letters concern the depositing of money from a business matter.

US TxSaT SC.000-055 · Folder · 1902
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Typescript manuscript of Jesse Sumpter's memoir, as dictated to Harry Warren. The memoir describes Sumpter's experiences in the Mexican War, and as one of the first settlers of Eagle Pass, Texas. Warren was an amateur historian, and deposited copies of the manuscript at several libraries, including the University of Texas in Austin. The memoir was edited and annotated by Ben E. Pingenot for the Encino Press in 1969, and published under the title "Paso Del Aguila: a Chronicle of Frontier Days on the Texas Border."

Artists' Alliance Revue
US TxSaT SC.000-058 · Folder · 1982
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Volume 2, issue number 3 (March 1982) of "Artists' Alliance Revue: Magazine of the San Antonio Arts Scene." Includes coverage of James Sicner's "Man's Evolving Images" mural located in Coates Library.