Pfeuffer Hall Student Scrapbook
- US TxAM-C 702
- Collection
- 1930-1931
Collection of student life photographs.
Pfeuffer Hall Student Scrapbook
Collection of student life photographs.
This collection consists of a clarinet owned by R.C. Leffel, Texas A&M College class of 1918.
Leffel, R. C.
This collection contains personal letters from Texas A&M student R. N. Conolly, along with a letter from the Dean of the School of Agriculture congratulating Conolly's parents about their son’s achievement.
Remote Sensing Center Collection
Richard J. Dunn Collection - Fighting Texas Aggie Band
This collection contains correspondence from the A&M College Bandmaster Richard J. Dunn. Other items in this collection include infantry music books dating from 1930-50s. The collection also contains original sheet music from the Fighting Texas Aggie Band and legal documents pertaining to Richard J. Dunn's song "Texas Aggie", "Spirit of Aggieland", "The Aggie War Hymn" and other Aggie Sheet music.
Dunn, Richard J., 1881-1961
This collections includes a brief biography of Barclay composed by his daughter, Louzelle Barclay, seven photographs concerning A&M College of Texas (Texas A&M University) including one image taken of several alumni by the R. Sullivan Ross statue on the A&M campus and a shot of B. Sbisa, Alumni letters spanning 20 years (1916-1936), and engineering notes taken by Barclay while attending A&M College of Texas.
Barclay, Rigsby L.
Robert Byrns Lafayette Lumpkin Foster Research Collection
This collection chronicles Robert's writing of his Masters' Thesis, "A Biography of L. L. Foster (President of A&M, 1898-1901)".
Included are around 100 letters to and from Byrns to help further his research. The recipients of these letters are from all over Texas and cover a wide range of persons from the military to librarians. Also included are pictures of L. L. Foster's children.
Byrns, Robert E., 1910-1999
This collection contains a number of papers on Chenoweth's research and observations during his time as one of four faculty members of the Texas A&M Electrical Engineering Department and Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering. Also included are multiple notebooks filled with numerous notes and folders with graphs, calculations, and lab reports.
Chenoweth, Robert D.
This collection contains papers dealing with the Texas A&M Library Council from the years 1973-1979 and includes papers written by Stewart while he was a professor at Texas A&M.
Stewart, R. E. (Robert Edwin), 1915-1983
This collection contains the works of Robert F. Smith pertaining to his work over the early history of A&M College called "Brief Sketch of A&M College". Included are his notes, rough drafts, and his original manuscript written in pencil, "History of the Agricultural and Mechanical College", 1895.
Smith, Robert F.
Robert Teague Milner 1912 Student Strike Collection
This collection contains information dealing with the 1912-1913 student strike at the College of Texas A&M where student cadets were accused of hazing on December 14, 1912. This collection also contains correspondence regarding the 1913 student strike written mostly to Milner, who was President of A&M during the strike.
This collection contains biographical data, publications, and data on the Biology Department at Texas A&M in which Sewell was a faculty member, as well as reports and other papers relating to oyster mortality research carried out through the Texas A&M Research Foundation Research Project 9 (February 1, 1947 - May 31, 1950).
The research project 9 was funded by six major oil companies and led by two Texas A & M University Professors, Sewell H. Hopkins (Head) and John G. Mackin (Associate Head).
Prompted by several lawsuits filed by Louisiana oystermen against major oil companies claiming damages to oyster fields as a result of drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico region, Project 9 was conducted under the auspices of the Texas A & M Research Foundation. Project 9 allowed researchers to design and implement field and laboratory studies seeking to determine the effects of oil production activities on oyster production. Eventually, a then as-yet-unknown parasite was discovered which preyed upon the oyster crop after they had begun to reach maturity.
Two other large research groups investigating the same allegations against oil production in the Gulf headed by H. Malcome Owen (Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission) and Albert W. Collier (Gulf Oil Company) compared notes with the Heads of Project 9, coming to the same conclusion. As a result of this collaboration, a description of this newly discovered parasite called Dermocystidium marinum was published in 1950. The lawsuits were subsequently dropped or settled out of court.
More importantly for the history of the Texas A & M University System, however, is the fact that Research Project 9 led ultimately to the creation and expansion of a Marine Sciences program, represented by the newly established (1949) Department of Oceanography at Texas A & M University in College Station. On 1 June 1950, after the termination of Research Project 9, Research Project 23 was begun to continue studies on oyster disease and maintain a Marine Laboratory at Grand Isle, La. The Texas A & M Marine Laboratory was established (1952) at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Tex. In 1968 Texas A & M University was named a Sea Grant College. The Marine Laboratory and the Texas Maritime Academy were merged in 1971, which is now known as Texas A & M University at Galveston.
These papers, therefore, form a picture of the ground-breaking research in oyster mortality conducted by Sewell H. Hopkins as head of Project 9, which led to increased sensitivity of the interplay of industry and the ecosystem, and to the formalized study at the university level of marine biology in the Gulf area.
Other researchers whose work is represented in the papers include Jay Donald Andrews, A. D. Bajkov, Harry J. Bennet, James L. Boswell, Clair Brown, Sidney O. Brown, M.D. Burkenroad, Fred Caulthron, C. Ray Elsey, I. I. Gardescu, Gordon Gunter, C. K. Hancock, Harold W. Harry, Joel W. Hedgpeth, Willis G. Hewatt, A. A. Jakkula, Fred W. Jensen, P. Korringa, Louis Lambert, Hugh B. Lofland, Elmer J. Lund, G. Robert Lunz, Jr., John C. Aull, Alvin F. Dodds, Shirley Alfred Lynch, John G. Mackin, Wiley G. Lastrapes, H. A. Marmer, R. Winston Menzel, Thurlow C. Nelson, Joseph F. Prokop, W. C. Rasmussen, Sammy M. Ray, J. H. Roberts, Fred W. Sieling, John J. Sperry, Victor Sprague, and Claude E. ZoBell.
* Bibliography
* Ray, Sammy M. "Historical Perspective on Perkinsus Marinus Disease of Oysters in the Gulf of Mexico." Journal of Shellfish Research. Vol. 15, No. 1:9-11.
* Ray, Sammy M. "Texas A & M University's Contributions to Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Research." [Viewed 2002-10-10 at: ]
Hopkins, Sewell Hepburn, 1906-1984
Texas A&M Athletic and Event Ticket Collection
This collection contains tickets, season ticket books, a game passes for A&M athletic games and events including men's and women's Basketball, Baseball, Football, Track and Field, Sports Day, Roller Derby, Huntsville Prison Rodeo, and the Fiddler's Festival Dance. The majority of the tickets are from A&M Football, followed by men's Basketball and Baseball.
Texas A&M Athletic Programs - Football
This collection contains gameday programs for the Texas A&M Football team.
These calendars function as planners or nostalgia tokens for their previous owners, with a collection of events and pictures. The covers of the Texas A&M College (TAMC) are authentic leather with the years pressed into them. The college calendars consist of past time pictures of A&M's campus, students, and faculty. The calendars cover events that were important to A&M specifically and were created in Bryan/ College Station, Texas. These calendars showcased important events for the A&M community to come together. A couple of these calendars were formerly owned by former students and may contain sensitive information (i.e. address), so please be mindful of their privacy.
Texas A&M Centennial Commemorative Metal Plates Collection
This collection includes commemorative metal plates with Texas A&M College logos and an engraving of Sull Ross dating from 1976, which is the commemorative centennial of Texas A&M's founding in 1876.
Texas A&M Club, Manila Records
This collection contains meeting documents from the A&M Club, Manila 1945-1946.
Texas A&M College 75th Anniversary Plate
This collection includes a Texas A&M College 75th anniversary porcelain commemorative plate made by John C. Treuhart Architecture 1950 at Vernon Kilns USA. The plate is maroon and white with the names of the different buildings and halls named on the edges found at Texas A&M College.
This collection includes manuscripts discussing World War I (WWI) propaganda cartoons, an essay on war and physicians, and other essays written by students at Texas A&M College in 1919-1920.
Texas A&M College of Texas General History Scrapbook
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings regarding A&M College of Texas.
Texas A&M College Student Correspondence Collection
This collection contains letters written by two A&M College students and general information about the collection. The first two letters are written by David Gordon Miller to his mother in 1877 (folder 2), and tell of Gordon's desire to be with his family at Christmas including a few words about A&M College and life. The third letter (folder 3) was written by E. G. Mills to his sister A. H. Sears on March 30, 1878, with a small section expressing the tedious life of an A&M student at the time.
Texas A&M Dance and Banquet Collection
This collection consists of the university's dance and banquet invitations dating back to the beginning of Texas A&M College. These invitations were once owned by students who attended the university/college. Most invitations were produced as a means of communication, due to the limited means of communication in some eras. The invitations cover dates and times that were important to the TAMU/TAMC student body. They can be used to research the sociality of people of the 20th century as well as the late 19th century.
Texas A&M Embossers Collection
This collection includes four metal embossers of Texas A&M College and Texas A&M University. Two embossers contain original leather coverings for them.
Texas A&M Forest Service Publications
This collection includes the following publication titles from the A&M Texas Forest Service:
This collection includes flower show information, historical club materials, minutes, club yearbooks and scrapbooks, and club reports.
Texas A&M Grade Reports Collection
This collection includes some personal grade reports from former students at Texas A&M. It also includes average semester grades for freshmen, sophomores, or by department for sessions 1925-1926 to 1939-1940.
Texas A&M Heritage Preservation Oral History Program Collection
The Heritage Preservation Oral History Program was designed to preserve for future generations of Aggies the history and traditions of Texas A&M as experienced by a diverse group of people.
The oral histories were largely collected by Haskell Monroe, the director of the program and the Dean of Faculties Emeritus, through an interview process. Haskell Monroe was a history professor at Texas A&M University as well as the President of the University of Texas at El Paso and the Chancellor of the University of Missouri. While at A&M he served as the secretary of the Aspirations Committee. This Committee wrote crucial reports advising changes that would help create the diversity experienced at A&M to this day including racial integration, co-education, and the elimination of the compulsory Corps of Cadets service.
The interviewees, for the Heritage Preservation Oral History Program, ranged from faculty, staff, students, and people highly involved in the university. This was intentionally done to give a diverse and well-rounded history and perception of life at Texas A&M University. These people ranged from university Presidents and their wives, yell leaders, student body presidents, and professors. In the Early Years of the program's history the focus was on A&M in the 1930s and the impact of the Corps. While in later interviews conducted professors and students were interviewed about more specific facets of A&M and individual programs and departments. While the program initially was supposed to only interview about 24 important people to the intuition it grew considerably throughout the process. The interviews were conducted from 1998 to 2002 totaling up to over 200 individual interviews and interviewees.
Texas A&M Library History Collection
This collection contains documents pertaining to library guides, history, correspondence, and general information about Sterling C. Evans library from 1968-1976.
Sterling C. Evans Library was built in 1968. Evans library became a member of the Center for Research Libraries as a first member in the region. In 1979, Evans expanded with two additional floors built and an expansion of the facade and floors.
Texas A&M Miscellaneous Memorabilia
This collection contains collectible items from A&M College (AMC, TAMC) and A&M University (TAMU) such as buttons, medals, hat pins, watch fobs, nails, etc.
Texas A&M Skin and Scuba Diving Club Collection
This collection contains materials from the Skin and Scuba Diving Club at Texas A&M during the 1970s.
This collection contains speeches that function as records of prominent speakers and mark the days of Commencement, Muster, and dedications at Texas A&M. This collection covers a range of years as far back as 1877 to 1997. The location of every speech given was at the A&M Campus.
Texas A&M Stationery Collection
This collection includes an assortment of Texas A&M blank stationary and special envelopes (some still in their packages) from both Texas A&M College and, later, Texas A&M University. Cartoon envelopes illustrating rivalries of both LSU and Rice versus TAMC (with mascot illustrations) are included in this collection.
Texas A&M Student Concern Records
This collection deals, in part, with the issue of hazing at Texas A&M which is defined as:
“Any act that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or that destroys or removes public or private property; and/ or assisting, directing, or in any way causing others to participate in degrading behaviors and/ or behavior that causes ridicule, humiliation, or embarrassment.”
Included are files relating to student complaints about hazing incidents at Texas A&M, enrollment trends, housing, reports of conditions and inspections, and resignations of students between 1932-1962.
Texas A&M Student Government Association (SGA) Records
This collection contains documents from the Student Government Association (SGA) including bills, constitutions, agendas and minutes of specific committees and councils, and much more regarding the university's government system.
Most of the documents consist of primary sources that were either handwritten or typed. The collection is mostly made up of agendas, minutes, bills, and correspondence of various A&M student committees and councils. There are a few documents on various university programs and issues that occurred between the 1970s and early 1990s. The entire collection covers the time period from the late 1960s to the early 1990s respectively. These documents only address Texas A&M ventures and concerns regarding the student system.
The collection also includes various traditional events (i.e. Muster) and important people (i.e. Dr. Koldus) that was a result of or contributed to Texas A&M's Student Government.
Texas A&M Student Receipts Collection
This collection is of various receipts noting payment on a note, lab fee, and deposit slips, from the years 1922 to 1923 at Texas A&M College from old records accumulated and saved by Mr. David E. Lamb. These were sent to fill some gaps in the documentation of Texas A&M history.
Lamb, David E.