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.

Flato Family Collection
The Flato family was one of the first families to reside in the newly created town of Kingsville, Texas. Charles H. Flato Jr. moved with his wife Eleanor Louise von Roeder Flato to Kingsville from Shiner, Texas in 1904. During the early years of Kingsville Charles H. Flato Jr. was instrumental starting the education system, establishing businesses, acquiring the "Normal School" (now Texas A&M University - Kingsville), creating many community organizations and promoting Kingsville and Kleberg County. His family carried on his legacy after his early demise.

South Texas Hispanic Farm Labor Communities Oral History Project
The South Texas Hispanic Farm Labor Communities Oral History Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration which incorporates oral history, archaeology, archival analysis, and public humanities to document and preserve the perspectives of individuals in South Texas who lived and worked as Hispanic farm laborers in the region from 1930-1990. A partnership between the Nueces County Historical Commission, Del Mar College, and Texas A&M University-Kingsville, the project brings together community members, faculty, and college students to record an under-represented aspect of regional history. The project began in 2012, and is directed by Dr. Mark Robbins (Associate Professor of History, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas) and Dr. Christine Reiser Robbins (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas).

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.

Kingsville Tri-City Retired Teachers Association Records
This collection consists of records from this non-political organization of retired teachers from Bishop, Kingsville and Robstown organized in 1971 for the purpose of serving as a local unit of the Texas Retired Teachers Association, to help retired teachers maintain identity with the teaching profession, to further the cause of education, to help advance the interests and welfare of the retired teachers, to foster good fellowship, and to cooperate with the National Retired Teachers Association by promoting membership, legislation, national projects and programs of the National Association. Miss Ruby Gustavson was the organizer and first president.

Samuel Preston Doughty Family Papers
Samuel Preston Doughty compiled the genealogy records of his family dating back to the 1600’s to the time when they first immigrated to South Carolina. Doughty, a Certified Public Accountant in Corpus Christi, donated his personal family documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings of his professional activities and accomplishments. He was a Texas A&I graduate and involved with the Alumni Association. His book, Our Doughty Families was published in 1969.

Juan Nevares World War II Photographs
Juan Nevarez of Robstown, Texas first worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps in Wyoming to support the family after his father died. He enlisted in the army in 1941; his infantry position was first machine gunner. Overseas Juan was injured badly by mortar fire and spent over a year recovering at the V.A. hospital in San Antonio. He received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his service. While in training he took these photographs, later his grandson John Navares attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 1998. He took Dr. Hunter’s history class which required a special project: “La Castana, A Survey of Hispanic Historical and Cultural Resources of South Texas.” For this project John submitted a paper and the 13 photographs that comprise this collection.