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Armstrong Family Photograph Collection
The Armstrong Family is one of South Texas' oldest and outstanding pioneer families. This collection of approximately 200 negatives and photographs cover the years from 1890 to 1930 but focus on the early Armstrong family around the 1920s and 1930s.

Agrasanchez Film Collection
Materials originally held by the Agrasanchez Film Archive in Harlingen, Texas. 360 movie posters, 6.727 movie stills, and 253 lobby and window cards pertaining to Mexican cinema from the 1936's through the 1980's, as well as 49 Mexican movies in VHS format, and 100 area theater records, including Kingsville, Alice, and Falfurrias, Texas.

Kenedy Family Collection
The Kenedy family contributed in the settling of South Texas and introducing large scale ranching to the coastal plains. Mifflin Kenedy, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, ferried supplies up the Rio Grande in a steamboat to the Texas troops during the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. Captain Mifflin Kenedy and Captain Richard King became friends and partners in acquiring huge tracts of land in South Texas where immense herds of wild horses roamed the plains. In 1875 Kenedy and King became chief supporters and financial backers of Colonel Uriah Lott in building a railroad from Corpus Christi to Laredo which became known as the Corpus Christi, San Diego & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. During the last half of the 19th century Mifflin Kenedy created a huge fortune and left a legacy to his family and South Texas.

Emily Rutland Art Collection
The Emily Rutland Art Collection depicts rural scenes from farm life in the early and middle 20th century. Animals and landscapes of South Texas are illustrated in a variety of media including charcoal, watercolor, pen and ink, and lithographs.

J.T. Canales Estate Collection
Judge J.T. Canales was a leading South Texas Mexican American political leader, lawyer, judge, legislator, landowner, and one of the founders of L.U.L.A.C., the League of Latin American Citizens. His estate collection includes correspondence, historical and religious articles, land records and abstracts, over 50 maps and building plans, and other materials. The Canales family descend from the original Spanish Land Grantee Don Jose Salvador DeLaGarza of the “El Espititu Santo” Land Grant, portions of which are still owned by the Canales family today.

Janet Cooper Collection
Files and legal papers from the court cases of Janet Cooper vs. Kingsville Independent School District. Janet Cooper sued for nonrenewal of her contract due to a teaching method she employed called the Sunshine Project. The Sunshine Project involved role playing and simulation to dramatize conversion of a radically segregated society during Reconstruction to one less segregated. Eight years of litigation resulted and the case went to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Cooper won the case, was reinstated, and received back pay, retirement pay, and lawyer fees.

Aalbert Heine Papers
Aalbert Heine donated a collection of documents and books that instruct the care and maintenance of paper. Literature on paper making and paper conservation is included along with the art of making paper toys and papier mache.

Ben Glusing Collection
The Benjamin A. Glusing Collection was donated in parts over thirty years. Ben donated favorite historical books, items of local interest and personal items from his office. The collection chronicles events of his life in Kingsville as a lawyer for the King Ranch and the town. He was involved at the state level as a legislator and the local level in community activities and his church's organizations.

Conrad M. Blucher Collection
A Nueces County Surveyor, Conrad M. Blucher’s Collection contains materials related to his activities as a surveyor of South Texas. There are diaries that span from 1905 to 1954 and describe in detail personal and business related events. The maps and blueprints in the collection date from 1896 through the 1950's, with one or two undated maps possibly being from as early as the 1860's or 1870's. There are also books, printed materials and newspaper clipping related to the surveying work done by Blucher.

David More Family Papers
David More immigrated to Canada from Scotland in the late 19th century and to Texas in the early 20th century. He worked on various railroad-building projects and farmed in the area of Driscoll, Texas. The collection contains correspondence, family documents, and photographs.

Mary Margaret Gussett Ewert Collection
The collection tells the story of Mary Margaret Gussett Ewert's life in South Texas. Her family was involved in building the communities of Live Oak and Corpus Christi and her letters describe their activities. Mary Margaret worked as the secretary for the President of Texas A&I University. She later married Dr. William Arthur Ewert and raised a family. She was active in garden and women's clubs, her church and the Red Cross. She met and developed a good friendship with Lyndon Baines Johnson and his family.

Stevens G. Herbst Collection
Stevens G. Herbst, an alumni of Texas A&I University now Texas A&M University donated a collection of documents and photographs that details the name change of the university in the 1990s, the funding and creation of the Frank H. Dotterweich statue by Armando Hinojosa and the change of the name of the College of Engineering to the Frank Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Senator Carlos F. Truan Papers
Carlos F. Truan played an instrumental role in shaping the destiny of the Lone Star State, serving the citizens of South Texas with dedication and vision over the course of an impressive, and indeed unprecedented, career as a member of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senator Truan came from a humble, single parent home and worked hard to earn his college degree from a small South Texas college. He entered the work world in the early 1960s, before the Civil Rights movement had even hinted at including Mexican Americans in the quest for equality and justice. Through the legislation he authored and/or sponsored he worked to make government more responsive to the people it served.

Anse E. and Mary Windham Photo Collection
The Anse E. and Mary Windham Family collection chronicles the career of Anse as a Chief Air Traffic Controller in the Navy and the life of both Mary and Anse in Kingsville, Texas. During his enlistment, Anse served aboard the USS Hornet. In 1969 he was a witness to the recovery of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 space capsules. After his retirement from the Navy in 1978 Anse continued to work as a civilian Air Traffic Controller for an additional twenty years. Both Anse and Mary were active in Kingsville’s local organizations. Anse continued to fly his plane, flying students who were tracking animals for the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute and taking aerial photographs of South Texas.

Larry Running Turtle Salazar Collection
Larry Running Turtle Salazar, a Native American of Cherokee and Apache descent donated a collection of digital images of Native American artifacts, gatherings, and rallies. Included is an oral history of his life growing up in San Antonio and Corpus Christi, his spiritual beliefs and his connection to other Native Americans. He is a strong advocated for Native American issues and recognized as a wisdom keeper by his people.

Dr. Z.T. Scott Family Collection
Dr. Zachary Thomson Scott was the director of the Texas Tuberculosis Association in Austin, Texas. This collection contains 46 photographs of the Mary Kleberg’s maternal family (Masterson), publications, books, genealogical information, and one soil map of Corpus Christi. The genealogical information are on various members of the Scott family and their lineage, along with biographical information on members of the King, Kenedy and Kleberg families.

Lon C. Hill Collection
Lon C. (Leonidas Carrington) Hill, Jr. was an early developer in the South Texas region. He was extremely instrumental in the growth and development of Corpus Christi and is known as the pioneer of irrigation in South Texas.

Dr. Columbus Vandiver Mooney Collection
Dr. Columbus Vandiver Mooney Collection consists of his professional and scholarly papers, correspondence and reports during his time as a Professor of Chemical and Natural Gas Engineering and chair of the Frank H. Dotterweich Committee at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville).

John Salisbury House Family Collection
The House family moved to Texas from Illinois in 1905. At first John Salisbury House, his wife Ellen Victoria Comeau, his sons Edmund Walter and Charles Percival and his daughter Clara Comeau settled on a farm near the town of Alfred in South Texas. All three of the House men went to work for the railroad, but each one moved on to enterprises that tied them closely to the growth of Kingsville. J. S. House went on to be postmaster and later the city treasurer. Walter and Percy House both went to work for the R. J. Kleberg and Co. Bank for many years. All three speculated in residential and farm real estate and each of them participated in many civic groups. The members of the House family arrived in Kingsville just after it was first created. As the town grew and prospered so did the House family and the records in the House Family Collection trace the growth and prosperity of the town through that of the House family.

Port of Corpus Christi Photograph Collection
Aerial photos of the Port of Corpus Christi. Photos are of different views of the port, city of Corpus Christi, North Beach, and the bascule bridge.

John Rollo’s Collective Research of South Texas Pioneer Ranching
John Rollo, a citizen of Australia, donated his collection of digital files relating to the pioneer ranching families of South Texas. These include materials on the King Ranch in Australia, images of newspaper clippings, and publications concerning the activities of the King Ranch in the United States. Materials also cover Mr. Rollo’s genealogical work on important families of the South Texas region including the James Bryden Family, the King Family, the Kenedy Family, the Chamberlain Family, and the Chapman Family. Included in the collection is the background leading to the litigation of Chapman vs. King Ranch Inc. concerning the Rincón de Santa Gertrudis property which involved James Bryden. The genealogical timelines for the various family connections, though not complete, are their footprints from the past and add another dimension to the historical context of the area.John Rollo complied genealogical information of the James Bryden Family, the Chapman Family, and background of the Chapman vs. King Ranch Inc. ligation over the Rincón de Santa Gertrudis property which James Bryden had a part in. The collection also has some nonrelated series about Chet Downs estate sale that includes King Ranch items, Australian sales catalogs from the King Ranch, a King Ranch 1950’s era slideshow and other materials on the King Ranch in Australia.

Corpus Christi 1917 High School Photographs
This collection consists of twenty-one photographs of the 1917 class of Corpus Christi High School. It includes photos of Madelyn Fisher, Carrie Stevens, Bernard Gussett, Estelle Weil, Parnot Donigan, Edwin Austin, Holworthy Hearh, Henry Manella, Donald Barnard, T. D. Wilson, Mauda Davis, and Ed Carney Sanders and was donated in 1992 by Lillie Mae Rogers and Nancy Gilliam.

Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz Collection
This collection contains one audio, video tape and twenty handwritten letters of Ramiro Muniz, known as Ramsey Muniz, founder of La Raza Unida in Texas, an incarcerated Hispanic political activist who ran for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, each time as the nominee of the Raza Unida Party. Mr. Muniz writes from prison in 2002 to Texas A&M University-Kingsville student, Michelle Arevelo-Ketto, who is researching the Raza Unida Party for a term paper.

Rumaldo Z. Juarez Papers
This Small Scale Collection consists of reference materials concerning Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s proposal to implement a Mechanical Engineering department into their curriculum. These documents pertain to the controversy regarding the establishment of a School of Engineering at TAMUCC and duplication of these types of programs in the South Texas geographic region.

Murphy Givens Papers
Corpus Christi Caller Times “Viewpoints” articles written by Murphy Givens.

Samuel Preston Doughty Family Papers
Samuel Preston Doughty compiled the genealogy records of his family dating back to the 1600’s to the time when they first immigrated to South Carolina. Doughty, a Certified Public Accountant in Corpus Christi, donated his personal family documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings of his professional activities and accomplishments. He was a Texas A&I graduate and involved with the Alumni Association. His book, Our Doughty Families was published in 1969.

JoRene Cochran Newton Collection
The JoRene Cochran Newton Collection accumulated while Mrs. Newton taught art in Kingsville, Texas, first at H.M. King High School and subsequently at Epiphany Episcopal School. Her students did the artwork for the Descant, the literary publication of the high school. Some students have continued as art teachers and as artists.

Bill and Marjorie Walraven Collection
The Bill and Marjorie Walraven Collection is the library of former Corpus Christi Caller-Times columnist Bill Walraven and his wife, Marjorie K. Walraven. The collection contains more than 700 books Mr. Walraven gathered over his lifetime, his columns for the Caller-Times , speeches he made throughout his career as a journalist and author, and other research notes. The Walravens have had an abiding love for Texas and respect for telling its story and wanted to honor Bill’s memory by making his collection available for use.

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
This Small Scale Collection consists of reference materials from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

Vernon Wuensche Collection
This collection consists of photographs taken by Vernon and a book centering around events and presentations given by the American Society of Civil Engineers - Corpus Christi Branch between 2003 and 2016.