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       Your personal papers, family papers, or organizational records may provide insight into the history of your community as it relates to the broader history and heritage of South Texas and Northern Mexico.  When you donate historical documents to the South Texas Archives and Special Collections at the James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, that history will be preserved as part of our history and made available to scholars and researchers for all time to come.

       The staff at the South Texas Archives and Special Collections make every effort to collect, preserve and make available for scholarly research, materials relevant and significant in the historical development of South Texas and northeastern Mexico.  The Archives collects documents that provide information about the history, folklore, politics, culture, and natural history of South Texas.  STA collects:

        1.  Personal and family papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, legal and financial documents, photographs, and other types of visual images;

        2.  Organizational records consisting of correspondence, reports, minutes, financial and legal papers, photographs, printed materials and other documentation produced by a group or corporate activity;

        3.  Visual images which may take the form of photographs, negatives, postcards, prints, drawings, sketches, videotapes, etc.;

        4.  Sound recordings including oral histories, records, tapes and compact disks;

        5.  Printed materials in the forms of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, brochures, and other materials that relate to South Texas.

Should you consider donating items, or if you would like additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Phone: 361-593-4154    Fax: 361-593-2240    Email: s-rexroat@tamuk.edu