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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.

Luis Fuentes Family Collection
Luis Fuentes Sr. was a respected business owner and pioneer of the Kingsville community.He was born in Mexico, his family immigrated to the United States when he was a child. He was a hard working citizen who created his own opportunities and owned several respected clothing businesses in South Texas in the first half of the 20th century.

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.

Daniel Wallace Hunter Photographs
This small collection consists of photographs of abandoned and decaying buildings in Benavides, Roma, and Hebbronville, Texas and of the restored chapel on Randado Ranch near Hebbronville. All photos were taken in 1999 by Daniel Hunter a professional photographer from San Francisco, California.