Related Collections

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.

Jimmy Dodd Photograph Collection
This collection includes photographs and negatives; over 500 images, taken by pioneer Kingsville, Texas Citizen, James (Jimmie) Andrew Dodd. The photographs are mostly of Kleberg County and the surrounding areas throughout the first half of the 20th century.

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?"

Carrie Northway Coleman Collection
Mrs. Carrie N. Coleman was a long time public school teacher and active in Kingsville community affairs. The sister of a prominent King Ranch veterinarian she left a collection of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, photographic and printed materials, sound recordings and many local and school newspapers.

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.

Gray & Jesse Golden Collection
The collection of 2,325 Texanna volumes contains many rare and out of print editions that tell the history of South Texas from San Antonio to the Rio Grande Valley.

Agnes G. Grimm Collection
Agnes Grimm was an author and collector of area history. An area school teacher of Texas history, she kept extensive notes, photographs and maps about the history of South Texas and her personal effort to document it. Her book, Llanos Mestenas, was published in 1968.

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.

Antonio & Diana Franco Bill Family Collection
The bulk of the materials are photos from La Raza Unida meetings. The other materials are Texas A&M University-Kingsville graduation programs, and a Lantana Duchess award.