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    Business Men's Bible Class Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    The Business Men’s Bible Class was organized in November 1928. The goal of the organization was to include unchurched men in a non-denominational religious organization. The class has no rules and regulation, no special offerings, and no racial creed or religious discriminations. It has been said that the Business Men’s Bible Class is like a small United Nations: its goal is brotherhood among all men and a tolerance for all. Collection includes 18 yearbooks.
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    Bierschwale-Coombes Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    Charles Coombes of Benjamin Texas married Eleanor Bierschwale in 1937. Coombes was employed by West Texas Utilities and active in civic affairs and the Christian Church. The collection is compiled of two linear feet covering the period from 1860 to 1947 and containing personal and business correspondence; old law books; land abstracts for several West Texas counties; Supreme Court cases; Secretary of State reports; speeches.
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    The American Hereford Record and Herd Book Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    The collection includes 78 volumes of Hereford cattle pedigrees compiled by The Breeders’ Livestock Association.
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    Leona Bruce Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    Leona Bruce was an author from Santa Anna in Coleman County. The collection includes one box containing photographs and memorabilia from the Santa Anna area in Coleman County. Included are three copies of Santa Anna’s Peak written by Bruce; correspondence; photographs; programs and advertisements.
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    Probandt Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    The collection includes two leather-bound ledgers dated 1891-1895, possibly from related to the business of Felix Probandt, an early San Angelo merchant. Each ledger lists customers whose names are included in the finding aid.
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    Concho Valley Electric Co-op Power Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    Today the Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, a non-profit organized in May 1940, serves over 4,400 members and has 3,606 miles of line covering 4,175 square miles in ten counties: Tom Green, Coke, Concho, Sterling, Mitchell, Nolan, Runnels, Glasscock, Irion and Reagan. The collection includes the periodical of the Concho Valley Electric Co-op located in San Angelo, TX. The periodical is in newspaper format and includes a variety of material on agriculture, regional and state history, and political issues that affected this area. Periodicals are not indexed.
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    National Weather Service of San Angelo Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    The National Weather Service of San Angelo, originally the Weather Bureau, opened its San Angelo office in 1947 at the Mathis Field terminal. The collection includes ledgers which contain data compiled by the National Weather Bureau at Mathis Field from 1948-1988. Collection contains surface weather, observations, climatological data, and local climatological summaries with comparative survey. Information is arranged by year.
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    Emil Rassman Collection
    (2015-02-17) West Texas Collection
    Emil Rassman of Midland, TX served on the Board of Regents for the Texas State University System and the Board of Regents for the West Texas Chamber of Commerce; he was also affiliated with the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum and other civic and service organizations. The collection includes 2,000 volumes including many scarce books and pamphlets on Texas history, the American Southwest and the Civil War and a substantial collection on Robert E. Lee. Some books are located in the general stacks and some in the West Texas Collection. Housed in the archives are five volumes created for Rassman when he served as president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. They include the organization’s publication, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia and information on the organization. A book list is located in the Rassman file.
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    Hiram Phillips Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    Hiram Phillips owned, edited, and published The Texas Sheep and Goat Raiser Magazine. The collection includes books and pamphlets mainly about Texas and the American West, a bound collection of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raiser magazine beginning with Vol. 2, and early copies of the Angora Journal. A book list is available onsite.
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    Baptist Church of Christ at Spring Creek, Talpa, Texas Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    The Baptist Church of Christ at Spring Creek was located in Coleman County just northeast of the community of Talpa. The collection includes a ledger of church records for September 1894-1904. The ledger is very fragile. The finding aid includes an index of names from the ledger.
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    Vancourt Store Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    Mrs. Smith was for many years associated with the West Texas Collection at ASU. The collection includes two ledgers from the Vancourt, Texas store. One is dated 1920-1922 and the other 1925-1927. The ledgers contain the names of customers and the amount of their purchases but not items purchased. Finding aid includes an index of names mentioned in the ledgers.
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    E.L. Nunnally Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    E.L. Nunnally was a high school Latin teacher at San Angelo High School for two decades and in 1928 became the first registrar at San Angelo Junior College. The collection includes the Westerner yearbooks for San Angelo High School for the years: 1918, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1938. These have been placed in the San Angelo I.S.D. area of the archives.
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    Dr. Kate Adele Hill Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    Dr. Kate Adele Hill, a native of Travis County and the author of three books related to her work as a county home demonstration agent, was the granddaughter of Sam H. Hill, early Schleicher County settler. The family’s ranching interests were in Kerr, Schleicher, and Tom Green Counties, Her father was W.H. Hill. The collection includes four books, magazines, newspaper clippings, family photographs, and genealogy on the Hill family. Genealogy is located in the Vertical Files.
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    Harriett Baptist Church Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    Harriett Baptist Church is located in the small community of Harriett east of San Angelo, TX. Collection includes a ledger that lists members of the church by families, a record of giving by each family, visitors each Sunday, church expenses, weekly offering receipts, special offerings and Sunday School officers for the years 1947-1948. An index of members and visitors is included below.
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    Gary Flage Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    The materials include copies of reports and correspondence during the active period of the fort; secondary materials about the fort including stories from periodicals, interviews, newspapers, and books; a paper by Flage entitled “Tales of the Buffalo Soldier at Fort McKavett”; and photographs of the fort both during the active years and prior to restoration.
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    Crews' Register of Funerals, Runnel County Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    The ledger contains record of the sales of caskets (usually including funeral) from Charles Crews’ Funeral Parlor. It includes the name of deceased, residence, age, date of death, cause of death (for some), and other items used in service. Crews’ Funeral Parlor was located on second floor of the Higginbotham Brothers & Company in Ballinger, Texas. Crews served a wide area that included Runnels, Coleman, Concho, and Coke counties. Due to the fragile nature of the ledger, the information has been indexed in the finding aid for use by the public.
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    Robert T. Neill Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    Robert T. Neill (1879-1962) was the U.S. Commissioner in San Antonio, the assistant district attorney in El Paso, and an attorney with the Justice Department in Washington D.C. He later worked as a defense attorney, representing Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and oil companies. He moved to San Angelo and worked as a partner at the firm Hill & Hill. The collection is made up of original and copied materials from the career and life of Robert T. Neill. The topics vary widely but most pertain to West Texas or to Neill’s legal work. Within the collection is material from a friend and business associate, Oscar Frink and material on the Neill family.
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    Edwards Plateau Historical Association Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    Abstract: The Edwards Plateau Historical Association is composed of nineteen counties from Kendall on the South to Coleman on the north. The Association was founded at Menard, TX on 20 October 1962. Each meeting focuses on the history of the county in which the meeting is held. The Edwards Plateau Historical Association Collection consists of papers relating to the association, minutes and correspondence for 1963-1974, and four published volumes containing the papers read at the annual meeting each year.
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    Houston Harte Art Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    The collection consists of 33 original painting by Guy Rowe created using an ancient method of painting. 32 were commissioned by the newspaper publisher Houston Harte for the creation of a book including narratives of Biblical heroes. The 33rd painting is of Harte.
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    Pocahontas Chapter, DAR Collection
    (2015-02-12) West Texas Collection
    The Pocahontas Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded by Mrs. Penrose Ions in 1910. Mrs. Ions was one of the first 500 women in the United States to become a member when the DAR was founded in 1890. Collection consists of scrapbooks, yearbooks and bound volumes. The scrapbooks and yearbooks are a record of historical and charitable activities of the chapter from 1910 to the present time. There are also Pocahontas Chapter Minutes, Treasury Records, and Annual Reports.