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Genoveva Barrera Leach Collection
This collection includes twenty-six negatives and a few photographs of early 1900 scenes in Premont, Texas. Correspondence concerning the family, schools, and conditions in Premont when wild burros roamed the streets is included along with financial records of Cibolo Ranch where Genoveva Barrera Leach was born and grew up. Leach graduated from Texas College of Arts and Sciences. She taught at Cibolo Ranch, La Copita, and Premont schools. A great reader and local historian she preserved papers and items she donated to South Texas Archives.

St. Theresa Women’s Club Records
The St. Theresa Women's Club Records contain articles and records reflecting the history of St. Theresa Women's Club organization of founded in 1949. A book titled "50th Anniversary of St. Theresa Women's Club 1949-1999 St. Theresa's Church, Premont, Texas compiled by Delpha Moran Barrera chronicles the history of the club and the church.

Premont Elevian Study Club Records
The Premont Elevian Club was started in 1955 as a women’s organization. The goals of the members were to improve themselves educationally and to improve the town of Premont. Over the years the group met once a month and organized charitable projects for the needs of the town. The collection includes scrapbooks, ledgers, meeting reports and photographs.

Lobrecht Family Collection
The Lobrecht Family Collection consists of one hundred, forty photographs and negatives most of which are from the Premont, Texas region in the early 20th century, nine oral history tapes and their transcriptions, a small amount of correspondence and some books. The materials of the collection deal mainly with the memories of Dorr Lobrecht through the oral history tapes and transcripts and the history of Premont, Texas during the 1920s, 30s, 40s by his son Alfred Lobrecht.

Raul Ramiro Villarreal Papers
Raul Ramiro Villarreal was a political activist in South Texas during the height of the Chicano movement, 1969-1979. He became involved in Chicano activities at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Kleberg County, Brooks County and Jim Wells County. Over the years, he evolved from militancy to a feeling that one needed to work for La Raza through whatever avenue was available. His writings and oral history reflect these sentiments.

José Ely Carrales III Collection
José Ely Carrales's collection consists of seven RPMs, three created by friends and relatives at the Newberry Record Store in Premont, Texas. Other recordings donated were commercially produced. Carrales donated Civil Air Patrol training documents used during time served with the Corpus Christi Civil Air Patrol.