Program for a production of "Marat/Sade" put on by the First Repertory Company of San Antonio in 1969.
First Repertory Company of San AntonioFlyer 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 AssociationProgram for the 1987 general membership meeting of the Castro Colonies Heritage Association. This copy belonged to Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux.
Castro Colonies Heritage AssociationLetter from Robert Frost to Merrill Bishop of San Antonio, dated May 21, 1933.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963Pamphlet 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, 1768-1859Program from the 2001 Synod of the Sun (Presbyterian Church USA) sesquicentennial celebration, held in Denton, Texas.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of the SunBrochure presenting the history, charter, and plans for the Texas Sculptors Group.
Texas Sculptors GroupVolume 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.
Brochure for the Escuela Interamericana de Verano, a summer school for Americans looking to learn Spanish in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
Escuela Interamericana de Verano1996-1997 annual yearbook for the San Antonio Music Teachers Association.
San Antonio Music Teachers AssociationSamples of Japanese paper, including one with calligraphy. Date of creation unknown, but donor claimed some may date to the seventh century CE.
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.
Report card for William Harvey Maverick, son of San Antonio mayor Samuel Maverick, from the University of North Carolina in 1866.
Two copies of a 1963-1964 booklet for the South San Antonio chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Script from a radio show sponsored by the Great American Life Insurance Company, entitled "Sidney Porter - O Henry." No date of broadcast is given, but the name of radio actor Lew Valentine (1912-1976) appears on the script.
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."
Proceedings of the annual session of the Texas State Grange. Includes the Eighth (1882), Eleventh (1885), Twelfth (1886), Fifteenth (1889), Eighteenth (1892), and Nineteenth (1893).
Two catalogs for the retailer Banana Republic, dated Holiday 1985 and Spring 1986.
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.
October 1981 issue of "Texas Homes" magazine, featuring a cover story "A Special Tribute: Architect O'Neil Ford: Legacy of an Indigenous Art Form."