Smoot Speeches, Manuscripts, and Newspaper Clippings
- TxAM-CRS 333-S2
- Series
- 1930-1995
Part of Dan Smoot Collection
This series contains 12 folders in box 03, and boxes 04-06.
Smoot Speeches, Manuscripts, and Newspaper Clippings
Part of Dan Smoot Collection
This series contains 12 folders in box 03, and boxes 04-06.
Part of Dan Smoot Collection
This series contains 12 folders in box 07.
Part of Dan Smoot Collection
This series contains 9 folders in box 07, and boxes 08-09.
Part of Dan Smoot Collection
This series contains boxes 10 and 11.
Part of Dan Smoot Collection
This series contains box 12.
Part of H. O. "Cowboy" Kelly Collection
Texas A&M University Correspondence
Part of H. O. "Cowboy" Kelly Collection
Part of H. O. "Cowboy" Kelly Collection
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
These records begin with the personnel files (1929-1972) Turner retrieved from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 1995. Correspondence about these files includes reference to FHWA personnel killed in the Oklahoma City bombing that year. Turner's Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) reports are arranged in chronological order, as are his BPR correspondence and reports.
S1-01/1-4: Bureau of Public Roads and Federal Highway Administration Personnel Files, 1929-1995 (bulk: 1929-1972)
S1-01/5-14: Bureau of Public Roads Reports, 1930-1939
S1-01/15: Textbooks and Thesis, 1940
S1-01/16-31: Bureau of Public Roads Correspondence and Reports, 1939-1968
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
As Executive Secretary of both the President's Committee on a National Highway Program (the so-called "Clay Committee") and the Inter-agency Committee, Turner collected administrative materials and correspondence for both committees. Series 2. also includes correspondence, background materials, and reports. Subseries 2.1 contains collected correspondence, background materials, and policy statements on the highway program by interested industry groups, associations, and politicians. The files are arranged alphabetically by the association name. Subseries 2.2 consists of files containing background information on financing the highway program and publicity and public reaction to the program. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Subseries 2.3 concludes the series with the official statements and testimonies heard by the Clay Committee, arranged chronologically.
Federal Highway Administration
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
This series is comprised of several subject files, such as a file with internal memoranda about bicycle lanes, and a file that contains notes for speeches Turner made as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration. A 1973 letter referring to Turner's retirement and materials on Turner's participation in an FHWA 100-year time capsule dedication ceremony on June 14, 1994, are also included.
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
This series is comprised of 4 folders in box 6 (6/20 through 6/23) containing published writings and official remarks and statements, bound in four volumes.
Transportation Issues and Legislation
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
This series contains subject files collected by Turner on various transportation issues of the day and on the legislation related to his field.
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
This series is comprised of 9 folders in box 7 (7/18 through 7/26) containing correspondence, certificates, and publicity about a few of the honors received by Turner over the course of his career. Similar material may be located in Series 7 if the award was bestowed by a transportation association.
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
This series contains correspondence, speeches, and conference materials. Turner belonged to a large number of transportation associations, both formal and informal, from national organizations, such as the Highway Users Federation, to lunch groups such as " The Road Gang." Many of the groups share the same key leaders, an attribute that is especially apparent in the intriguingly entitled "No Name Group."
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
Immediately upon his retirement from the Federal Highway Administration, Turner was commissioned by the International Road Federation to help conduct a three-year study of 31 urban areas in 14 countries. The information he and co-author Harmer E. Davis gathered from cities in Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States make up the bulk of this series. However, Turner acted as a consultant, both paid and unpaid, for many other agencies and associations. Correspondence, notes, maps, photographs, speeches, and reports on this work.
Part of Francis C. Turner Collection
This series contains studies from several individuals and organizations that recorded the history of the development of the interstate highway system. The most extensive research was carried out by the Public Works Historical Society, under the sponsorship of the American Public Works Association and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials.
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Coaching and Teaching Materials
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Commissioner of the General Land Office
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of James Earl Rudder '32 Collection
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
This series consists mainly of social and informal correspondence, including letters, greetings, and Christmas cards. Also present are spiral-bound guest notebooks containing names and contact information for people who visited Evans at his various ranches through the years. Also included with their related correspondence, is an annotated draft of the foreword composed by Evans for the biography of Gus Wortham, Gus Wortham: Portrait of a Leader, written by Fran Dressman (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994).
Personal Financial and Legal Information
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
This series contains mostly personal correspondence, including a few notes, pertaining to Evans' personal financial and legal affairs, particularly referring to family wills and estates. Financial documents include bank statements, tax forms, canceled checks, ledgers, receipts, and materials about credit card accounts. Files are arranged with general correspondence, financial and legal materials presented first, followed by two groups of subject files, the first arranged alphabetically by names of persons, the second alphabetically by names of business or other corporate bodies.
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
This series details the development of Evans' ranching enterprises. Correspondence records Evans' incisive decision-making and the strong friendships he made and maintained within the cattle industry. Particularly noteworthy is the record of Evans' successful partnership with Gus Wortham, from the early growth of their association and friendship, through to the partnership's amiable dissolution in later years. In particular, information found in subseries 3.3. Little Eva Plantation, Chopin, La., 1864-1991 (bulk: 1941-1970) highlights the importance Evans placed on cultivating the historical context of many of his ranches.
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
This series is comprised chiefly of correspondence between Evans and several administrative units of Texas A&M University, as well as the Aggie Club and Former Students Association. Also present is a telegram of the then U. S. senator from Texas, Price Daniel, a program for the 1973 Texas A&M University commencement exercises, and a file of clippings. Files are arranged first by format with correspondence files sub-arranged alphabetically by name of a university group, followed by three separate files for a telegram, the program, and clippings. Subseries 4.1. Sterling C. Evans Library, (1975-1994) contains materials more directly related to Evans' patronage of the Texas A&M University Libraries.
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
This series contains a journal kept by Evans from March 22 - June 1939, recording a trip to Brazil to study that country's cotton industry, daily diaries, clipped and handwritten or typed quotations and poems, published books, booklets, and brochures collected by Evans, as well as business cards, draft cards, a library card, advertising postcards, and certificates recording honors bestowed on Evans, along with a few personal artifacts such as an engraved penknife, and a card enclosing a handkerchief.
Part of Sterling C. Evans Papers
This series contains many photographs depicting Evans as a businessman, as well as with his family, as well as numerous news clippings detailing aspects of his career.
Part of General Comic Book Collection