Related Collections

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.

Homer C. Givens Collection
Homer C. Givens was a mechanical engineer and instrumentation man who worked as a Superintendent for the La Gloria gas plant outside of Falfurrias, Texas for most of his career. The collection consists of one hundred and forty-two slides of the La Gloria gas plant, papers, and an autobiographical account of Homer C Givens. Givens had a long career working with and designing equipment used at the plant and was awarded recognition and esteem by his colleagues in the petroleum industry

Vicente Salazar, Sr. Family Collection
A collection of digital Photographs and documents that tell the story of Vicente Salazar Sr.'s life and family opening and working at the Salazar Store on 6th and Richard Street in Kingsville, Texas, in the early 1900s.

Marie Bennet Alsmeyer Collection
The Marie Bennet Alsmeyer Collection is two stories, one about the life of Marie Bennet Alsmeyer, a freshman in the journalism department of Texas College of Arts and Industries in 1941, she left to join the Navy as a Wave after Pearl Harbor. The other story is about Dr. Otis Malvin Montgomery, a journalism professor at Texas College of Arts and Industries who influenced Marie Bennet Alsmeyer and also joined the Navy during World War II. He tells of his experiences in letters he wrote to his daughter, Linda, titled "Who Me, Stories from a Charmed Life." Marie Bennet Alysmeyer tells her story in the published monograph, "The Way of the Waves, Women in the Navy," and "Well Done, Mr. Monty... Carry On! Letters from O. M. Montgomery" by Marie Bennet Alsmeyer. The two became friends in 1941 and remained friends throughout their lives.

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.