Related Collections

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.

Tomas H. Molina Family Collection
The Molina Family was one of the earliest settlers of South Texas. Documents consist of family papers and photographs. Their love of baseball resulted in the collection of a large number of photographs and documents about the history of baseball in South Texas.

Wade Ranch Records
Financial records, legal documents, personal correspondence, trade catalogs pertaining to the Wade family of Nueces County, Texas (now Lake Corpus Christi), are included in this collection. The Wade Ranch Papers were donated to the South Texas Archives by Thomas Priestly, grandson of Ezella Buchanan Priestly, who was the sister of LouElla Buchanan Wade, the wife of Wallis D. Wade. The papers were donated July 24, 1984.

Seefeld Family Papers
The Seefeld Family was a proud and hardworking family in the early twentieth century in South Texas, most notably in Alice, Texas, the heart of the oil field industry. Successful and prosperous in Wisconsin, the Seefelds invested money into agricultural and oil interests in Jim Wells County. They were one of the first families to invest in oil, and on September 25, 1920 they formed the Diamond S Oil Company. The first oil well in Jim Wells County was drilled. Unfortunately it blew out resulting in the loss of much of the investment, the ranch and farming plots. The Seefeld Family will be remembered for their hard work,their ambitions and the risks they took in the oil and agricultural industries.

Texas Tropical Trail Region Records
This collection is the Texas Historical Commission’s Project: Texas Heritage Trails Program Records dating from 2002 to 2013. The South Texas Region, Tropical Trail Region, covers 20 counties including the Gulf Coast from South Padre Island to Refugio to the Brush Country from George West to Cotulla and Brownsville, all-encompassing the Wild Horse Desert in the heart of the region which includes Hebbronville and Falfurrias. The records reflect the site visits to this region.

Claudia Maldonado Postcard Collection
The collection of graphic material consists of postcards, promotional publications and miscellaneous correspondence cards dated in the early 20th century. Most of the materials are addressed to Claudia Maldonado of San Diego, Texas.

Lindermann Family Photograph Collections
Ben A. Lindermann of Alice, Texas gifted South Texas Archives with his family photograph collection dating from 1880 to 1937. The children featured are Cora Mae Lindermann Barden and Ben A. Lindermann Jr., but identification of photographs is not available.

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.