Related Collections

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.

Garcia-Smith Family Collection
The Donor, Dr. Julia Smith is a retired professor of Language and Literature at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Julia Garcia and George Smith were married in 1929 and joined two long time Texas families. Mr. Smith was the descendant of Canary Islanders.

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.

Alonso S. Perales Papers
Materials accumulated about Alonso S. Perales, a founder of LULAC, a Nicaraguan Consul General, and a longtime civic leader in San Antonio. Perales was Consul general for twenty-five years and had served as counsel to the Nicaraguan delegation to the United Nations in 1945. He was a founder of the League of United Latin-American Citizens and was the author of two books, "In Defense of My Race" and "Are We Good neighbors?"

Thien Wah Papers
Dr. Thein Wah, a Professor of Engineering from 1971 to 1984 at Texas A&M University-Kingsville donated his profession papers to South Texas Archives. He authored over fifty original papers and two books in the field of civil engineering. This collection consists of 34 of his published papers.

Maggie Blanco Salinas Papers
This collection describes Maggie Salinas’ community involvement and contributions to Kingsville during the last half of the twentieth century and first part of twenty-first century. A business owner, Salinas volunteered her time and resources to many local and regional organizations. The projects range from La Posada de Kingsville to being a member on the Advisory Board with the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Engineering Department.

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.

Roy D. Barlow, Jr. Photographs
The Barlow photographs were taken in 1929 mostly of images of San Antonio, Texas. The Swafford Company, Municipal Auditorium, Fox Company, and Smith Young Tower are featured. The last photo in the collection is of the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

Joe Stanley Graham Jr. Collection
Joe Stanley Graham, professor of Anthropology and folklore at Texas A&M University-Kingsville from 1988 until shortly before his death in 1999 lived and worked on ranches in southwest Texas ultimately studying at the University of Texas, Austin with Dr. Amerigo Paredes, a leading folklorist from south Texas. Dr. Graham continued Dr. Paredes work of collecting materials about the rural Mexican and Mexican American communities, the people and their folkways. Hundreds of photographs, interviews, student term papers, and research materials used for museum exhibits have been saved for future researchers of his favored topic.

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.

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.

Don Nereo Navarro Collection
Don Nereo Navarro came from a family long prominent in the State of Texas. The history of the family, a copy of the last will of Jose Antonio Navarro, Don Nereo’s grandfather and photographs piece together the family history of this family from late 1700’s to late 1800’s.

Carolyn Regan Collection
Carolyn Regan was Carolyn Stromberger when she attended Texas College of Arts and Industries (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) from fall of 1949 to spring of 1954. Carolyn was involved in many activities and clubs and created scrapbooks of her years at college. This collection contains three scrapbooks illustrating her involvement with the students and faculty of Texas College of Arts and Industries during the years of 1949 to 1954.

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.

Ricardo and Debbie Backal Mexican Art and Rare Book Collection
Ricardo and Debbie Backal Mexican Art and Rare Book Collectionat the South Texas Archives is comprised of digital files of the loan of Crypto-Judaism monographs dating back to the 1500s, paintings of Spanish and Mexican culture, and Mexican calendars that were created from the paintings.

Irma Lerma Rangel Collection
The legislative and personal law collection of Irma Lerma Rangel, the first Mexican American legislator elected to serve in the Texas House of representatives. Representative Rangel served the Forty-ninth and Thirty-seventh legislative districts of Texas for twenty-six years as a legislator. Papers and cases from her law office in Kingsville are included. The collection was given in three accessions one each in: 1989, 1999, and 2003. The collection includes all of her papers from government proceedings, correspondence concerning the bills, and a log with constituent opinions from the 65th legislature to the 78th legislature. Representative Rangel considered her greatest achievements as a legislator, the introduction of House Bill 1755 designed to provide employment and educational programs for mothers on welfare with dependent children; House Bill 1629, the Good Faith Donor Act, designed to exempt retailers and manufacturers from liability when food was donated to the needy and to the Food Banks; House Bill 588 requiring all state colleges and universities to automatically admit all students who graduate in the top ten percent of their high school class and Merging Texas A&I with Texas A&M. She tirelessly promoted education as a way to break the cycle of poverty.

Norman Laird (Brownie) McNeil Music Collection
Professor Norman Laird (Brownie) McNeil was a folklorist, scholar, and educator who studied and collected the ballads and literature of the Mexican people in South Texas. The collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, literary productions, newspaper clippings, photographs, printed materials, and sound recordings of corridos, ballads, and folk songs of Texas and Mexico, as well as articles and manuscripts on curanderos and folk medicine in South Texas.