- US TxAM-C C000295
- Collection
- 1921-1943
This collection contains old issues of the Battalion Magazine, beginning with the April 1921 issue, and ending with the March 1943 issue.
The Battalion
This collection contains old issues of the Battalion Magazine, beginning with the April 1921 issue, and ending with the March 1943 issue.
The Battalion
Gustav McKee Watkins: A Biography Collection
This collection contains a photocopy of Chapter 8 from the second edition of a book entitled Gustav McKee Watkins: A Biography, by John Bennett Watkins II, with additional references including a follow-up email of contents and extra biography materials.
Texas Aggie Countryman Publications
The Texas Aggie Countryman was a Texas A&M College monthly publication created in 1930 by students at the Texas A&M College Press. It is one of the first student-run publications at Texas A&M.
1908 Student Strike Hearing Transcript
This collection contains a transcript from the student strike in 1908.
1913 Hazing Investigation Collection
This collection contains items related to a hazing problem among undergraduate students at Texas A&M College in 1913. Records include accusation accounts from former students, parents, faculty, and staff. The Texas A&M College Hazing February 1913 Special Committee found twenty-two A&M undergraduate students guilty of hazing be dismissed from Texas A&M.
75th Anniversary Celebration at Texas A&M College Collection
This collection includes items, inks, and other material used by Mechanical Engineering students to make commemorative ashtrays for 75th-anniversary celebration for TAMC in 1954.
The collection contains various publications about Mebane's cotton, including pamphlets, and newspaper and magazine articles. There are many correspondences to A. D. Mebane complimenting and ordering his cottonseed. Because of the involvement with the Texas Cotton Breeders Association, the collection includes speeches given at the Association meetings.
Mebane, A. D.
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Wedgewood Plates Collection
Twelve Wedgwood plates with a cadet on back, not a collector's edition.
This scrapbook contains a World War II ration book, ration card, memorabilia of Texas A&M student life during the 1940-1950s with additional items in the 1960s regarding Texas A&M.
Andrew Douglas Jackson Collection
This collection includes photos, legislative bills, charts, minutes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence concerning his agricultural research in farming irrigation and flooding in the Brazos River. Highlights of the collection include information, minutes, charts regarding the Texas Legislative bill titled "The Brazos Reclamation and Conservation District" created in 1929 by the 39th Legislator of Texas.
Jackson, Andrew Douglas
Army Specialized Training Program Collection
This collection contains documents, class schedule, and requirement list for the completion of the Army Specialized Training Program for the ROTC at Texas A&M College during 1943. Included are course descriptions for the various classes in the program, along with schedules and requirements.
This scrapbook contains photographs and newspaper clippings dating from 1911-1915. Included inside is a copy of The Student Farmer (October 1914), photographs of the Old Main building, and the Mess Hall before and after they burned. A photograph of Old Main from the North showing the old stone walk and of a tree, possibly the Centennial Oak. Also, a photo of Uncle Dan who is marked as being the "oldest resident" on campus, which is noted in an early statement about his longevity.
Burgess, Austin E.
This collection includes documents, ledgers, expenses, and other items such as a World War I officers ledger containing signatures of the officers who attended or visited Texas A&M.
Bernard Sbisa Family Collection
The Bernard Sbisa Family Collection consists of photographic scrapbooks, personal correspondence, photographs of the Sbisa Family, and early Texas A&M College photographs along with other early college photographs of the campus of Perdue. The items included either have no date or are dated from between 1877 to 1919.
Bernard Sbisa was one of the first Texas A&M College professors who lived and taught the early Texas A&M College.
Sbisa, Bernard
This scrapbook contains news clippings from 1907 to the 1940s, especially about A&M events and Chemistry Programs.
This collection contains photographs and correspondence of Master Sargent C. G. Robson.
Robson, C. G.
C. S. Travis, "Ice Machinery" Collection
The "Ice Machinery by C. S. Travis" Collection contains a handwritten essay on Ice machinery written on June 16, 1882. Possibly, this was an essay for a class assignment or lecture by a student named C. S. Travis. The essay describes Ice machinery mechanics in 1882.
Travis, C. S.
Campus Life Photograph Album Number 2
Carroll G. McAdams '28 Scrapbook
This scrapbook contains clippings of Texas A&M Campus life from 1925 to 1928. Carroll G. McAdams was a Texas A&M College student who graduated in 1928.
This collection contains papers dealing with agricultural topics at the A&M College of Texas during Alvord's service from 1899-1945, along with a picture of the first General Agricultural and Livestock Train in Texas (1910).
Alvord, Charles H.
This collection contains letters about Judge Charles Rogan's life at A&M, and other materials relating to A&M during the time that Rogan was a student there.
Rogan, Charles
Charles Woodward Hutson Collection
This collection includes biographical notes about English Professor Charles Woodward Hutson, an excerpt from a letter of W. J. Walden, Class of 1900 (August 19, 1954), and a chant of the Texas A&M Class of 1898 (2 copies).
Hutson, Charles Woodward, 1840-1936
Chemical Engineering Wives Club Scrapbook
Class of 1922 - 45th Class Reunion Collection
Class of 1945 Anniversary Reunion Collection
This collection includes documents from the Texas A&M Class of 1945 Anniversary Reunion, which took place in 1995. Materials include muster programs from 1995, a schedule of events, and a registration list.
Commencement Invitations Collection
This collection contains the formal invitations to commencement ceremonies. The invitations record the time, day, and place of each commencement ceremony. This collection has invitation from the late 19th century till the early 1990s. These invitations were not exclusively made in College Station/Bryan, Texas. These invitations were formerly owned by students, their family, and friends.
Corps of Cadets Caps Collection
This collection contains 5 Corps of Cadets caps/hats from individuals from the class of 1908, 1977, and other unknown years.
This scrapbook contains autographs, memorabilia, and photographs of A&M College buildings during the span of 1917 to 1921 when Finn was a student at the College.
D. Yarbrough Texas A&M College Scrapbook
This scrapbook shows "Early Views", mostly buildings, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas through photographs taken by D. Yarbrough, Co. "A" Engineers (most dated 1938 on the back).
Included is a photo of the "Duncan House, College Station" which is probably the house of the Board of Directors (W. A. Duncan, as director of food services, was assigned a living space in that building). Photographs of several community buildings are also included: The Boyett Apartments (North Gate), A&M Methodist Church, Baptist Church, Christian Church, St. Mary's (Catholic) Chapel, A&M Consolidated High School, and A&M Consolidated Grammar School (both schools were located on campus). There is also a close-up photo of a "typical" project house, and a long-distance shot of a group of project houses.
This scrapbook contains clippings on the Student Cooperative Housing at Texas A&M between 1932-1940 from local and state newspapers.
This collection contains materials that were part of the work done by David Woodcock through the Center for Heritage Conservation as well as the Design Review Sub-Council (DRsc), which reports to the Council for Built Environment and is responsible for ensuring all construction and renovation on the Texas A&M Campus. The materials focus on DRsc review, the Campus Houses that A&M faculty lived in, the Riverside Campus, formerly the Bryan Air Base and the Annex, and historic Bryan and College Station.
Woodcock, David G.
David M. Kelly Texas A&M College Postcard Collection
This collection consists of colored postcards of Gathright Hall, Administration Building, Foster Hall, Chapel, Ross Hall, Milner Hall, and Goodwin Hall. Also included are letters from Kelly to family members in Greenville, TX which give glimpses of campus life. One postcard mentions the death of a student from meningitis.
Department of Agronomy 1940 Summer School Special Courses
This collection contains articles, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, and other materials from the special courses offered by the Department of Agronomy during the 1940 summer session. Included are the lecture notes and related materials for Agronomy 526, Fundamentals of Grass & Pasture Improvement taught by Dr. Franklin D. Keim (University of Nebraska); the complete outline and references for Agronomy 525, Range Management and Ecology taught by Dr. William G. McGinnies (Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station, Tucson, AZ); the complete outline and references for Agronomy 527, Forest Soils taught by Dr. Robert F. Chandler, Jr. (Cornell University); and a tentative outline with proposed lab and field practice for Agronomy 410, Soil Classification and Mapping by E. A. Norton (USDA).
Department of Oceanography Research Reports
This collection of reports was assembled by a staff member who worked in the department from 1949 to about 1974. Some reports were added after 1974, but that was not done as consistently as before. Thus, for the first twenty-four years, the collection should be at least virtually complete.
All of the reports are in good condition. The earliest ones were published as mimeograph copies while the later ones seem to be published as photo-offset copies.
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings about Dr. Brandt, and his manuscripts about Texas Fever.
Brandt, Louis
This collection contains eighteen letters from Duward to his parents dating from February to November 1953 during his time at Texas A&M College.