This archive collection contains photographs, intelligence reports, war diaries, documents, original drawings, maps, bulletins, and military memorabilia belonging to Thomas Harlan Ellett of the 302nd Engineer Regiment 77th Division, who served on the front lines of the Western Front first as a Lieutenant, and then as a Captain. This archive documents Ellett's entire military career, from basic training at Upton Camp, Plattsburg, NY, to his deployment to France and Belgium, and through the end of the war.

Most of the wartime photographs are vernacular and are unpublished. They show officers and soldiers of the 302nd Engineer Company surveying, building, and repairing bridges, roads, and other infrastructure; some of the men are positioned in trenches and dugouts, others are eating meals at the edges of the forests and fields or are simply at ease. Meanwhile, burned French countryside and destroyed villages are the primary backdrops. Other photographs include German machine gun emplacements, U.S. military supply and weapons convoys, railway lines ruined and rebuilt, and various scenes at the Front near Argonne, Laon, Stonne, Epies, Hindenburg line near Etain, and Chemin des Dames.

Documents included are of the classified information Ellet sent and received to and from the front lines. Materials consist of wartime correspondence, vernacular snapshots and official U.S. Military photographs, the account of the bridge repair (Villers devant Mouzon) for which Ellett was decorated, field correspondence, U.S. Army field message books, and personal daily and monthly diaries (1917 through the end of the war).

The personal Excelsior Diaries include the crucial summer months of 1918 and record Ellett's personal experiences. There are numerous examples of stark juxtapositions, such as surviving a gas shell attack followed immediately by the news of the birth of his daughter (respectively June 23 and June 24, 1918). In an August 1918 entry, Ellett celebrates his first wedding anniversary and on the next page he records the death of President Roosevelt's youngest son, Quentin Roosevelt.

There are eighteen Vintage WWI Maps (mostly folding), some of which are annotated with troop positions and movements. A French Resistance map, written in manuscript, complete with two Order Sheets (signed by the director of Resistance) directing the destruction of a bridge. The multi-colored sketch map it titled, "P.A. Touret, Plan nouvelle des Travaux" with a legend and a scale; three colors indicate the status of current projects in the engineering works.

Other materials include Ellett's own studio portrait, military training certificate, leave passes, official correspondence, nominations in support of his Distinguished Service Cross, his own numerous architectural and engineering drawings in France and Belgium, vaccination card, and official signed American Expeditionary Forces Identity Card with stamped embossed photograph.

Box 1
Descriptions provided by seller.
1/0: Studio portrait of Ellett in uniform

1/1: Six mounted photographs

1/2: Documents including appointment of Ellett as First Lieutenant, Engineer Section Officers' Reserve Corps (August 8, 1917), etc.

1/3: Three mounted photographs including Ellett's W

1/4: Photograph of training at Camp Upton depicting Ellett and others storming a trench, etc.

1/5: Six MS diagrams and notes concerning trench warfare (presumably written by Ellett at the Front).

1/6: Two leaves of MS sketches of French lodgings and one photograph of Engineering Regiment Headquarters

1/7: Three MS diagrams and maps of troop movement, one photograph of French ruins, Ellet's identity card as 1st Lieutenant in the 302nd Engineers.

1/8: Typescript, "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet" to Commanding Officer of 302nd Engineers (December 31, 1918). Includes five MS engineering diagrams, and a photograph of Ellet's wife and newborn daughter.

1/9: "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet" continued including photograph and architectural sketch

1/10: "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet" continued including photograph and three architectural sketches

1/11: "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet" continued including three photographs and two architectural sketches.

1/12: "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet" continued including one photograph, one architectural sketch, and one engineering sketch.

1/13: "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet" continued including medical documents.

1/13a-c: Corrected typescripts loosely inserted, concluding the "Personal Experiences of Capt. Thomas H. Ellet".

1/14: Photograph of the 170th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers (Belgium, December 1918). NB: The 107th Tunnelling Co. was occupied in offensive and defensive mining involving the placing and maintaining of mines under enemy lines, as well as other underground work such as the construction of deep dugouts for troop accommodation, the digging of subways, saps (a narrow trench dug to approach enemy trenches), cable trenches and underground chamber for signals and medical services. This appears to be the only known example of this photograph. It was presented "With the compliments of the Commanding Officer and Officers of 170th Tunnelling Co. R. E."
Photograph and presentation leaf torn and mounted on thick card.

Box 2
Descriptions provided by seller.
2/1: Four French bread ration cards

2/2: MS notebook (no longer bound) apparently all written at the Front, containing approximately 44 leaves; includes engineering diagrams, troop formation, sniper and scouting intelligence, trench fever, and trench location.

2/3: Officer's Record Book

2/4: Three U.S. Army Field Message Books, September, October and November 1918

2/5: Private Diaries written at the Front, and while on leave. 19 total
January, March, August-December 1917 (7 diaries)
January-December 1918 (12 diaries)

Box 5
Descriptions provided by seller.
5/1: Manuscript: P.A. Touret, Plan-Navalle des Travaux

5/2: Annotated: Fismes, June 2, 1918 - Proposed Trenches, Trench Lines, Positions of the Resistance

5/3: Secret: Fere-en-Tardenois, August 3, 1918

5/4: Secret: D'Argonne

5/5: Meuse-Argonne Offensive: 1st, 2nd, and Last Phases, November 20, 1918 - 29th Engineers U.S. Army

5/6: Mezieres - 29th Engineers U.S. Army

5/7: Preliminary Edition: Vendresse

5/8: Verdun - 29th Engineers U.S. Army

5/9: Annotated: Soissons/Reis - 302nd Engineers U.S. Army

5/10: Annotated: Chalons

5/11: Francheval - 29th Engineers U.S. Army

5/12: Vouziers - 29th Engineers U.S. Army

5/13: Bar-Le-Duc, 1911 - Civilian Map

5/14: Nouvelle Carte de France, Belgique, Bords du Rhin, Suisse, etc., 1918 - Civilian Map

5/15: Soissons, 1912 - Civilian Map

5/16: Tours - Civilian Map

5/17: Nouvelle Carte des Vosges/Lorraine, Basse-Alsace - Civilian Map

5/18: Est de La France - Civilian Map

Descriptions provided by seller.
4/1: Original Drawings: architectural renderings of Quarters at Camp Upton (1917-1918), sketches of interiors and exteriors of French domiciles, and the original drawings for Ellett's illustrations in The 302nd Engineers: A History (pp. 27 and 32).

4/2: Documents: Typescript Intelligence Reports from the Front - Secret (1918). Includes detailed confidential Field Orders from - and Reports from the battlefront to - the CO of the 302nd Engineers; real-time statistics of enemy officers, soldiers, and material captured by the 77th Division; Conditions of Armistice (77th Division AEF, dated November 13, 1918); Summary of Intelligence (Confidential: Not to be taken into the Front Line Trenches).

4/3: Documents: Military Training - Iowa National Guard (1903) and Plattsburg, NY (1915).

4/4: Letters to the Front from home (wife Jane)

4/5: Military Appointments and Honors, 1917-1944

4/6: Administrative Documents: 77th Division 302nd Engineers, 1918-1919

4/7: Financial Documents: War Department, 1918-1920

4/8: Newspaper Clippings, 1916-1933

4/9: Document Portfolio (olive canvas tipped with leather) divided into two: Military and Personal. Soiled and worn. Likely used by Ellett at the Front

Descriptions provided by seller.
3/1: Binder containing 95 black and white photographs individually housed in clear mylar protective sleeves. Subjects include: Camp Upton training; engineering projects on the Front such as building and rebuilding bridges, roads, tunnels, trenches, railways, fences, and shelters; unexploded and/or abandoned enemy armament; ruined buildings; burned forests and fields; impromptu graveyards; officers and soldiers in trenches, in the battlefield, or at ease; mine craters; the foot-bridge at Villers-Devant-Mouzon, Meuse River which served as Ellett's model for the frontispiece of the 302nd Engineers: A History.

Box/Folder
1/1
"The Confidence-Man : his masquerade" by Herman Melville with an introduction by Roy Fuller. The Chiltern Library No. 19. 1948
Book with 1 leaf

1/2
"My Father and Myself" by J. R. Ackerley. Uncorrected proof copy. 1968
Book with 1 page

1/3
"Orion, A Miscellany". Nicholson & Watson. 1945
Book with 4 pages

1/4
"The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley" by Diana Petre. 1975
Book with 1 page

1/5
"The Poetry Library of The Arts Council of Great Britain : Short-Title Catalogue", 6th edition revised and enlarged. Compiled with a postscript by Jonathan Barker. Introduction by Philip Larkin. 1981
Signed by Jonathan Barker

1/6
"Roy Fuller : Essays and Poems in Honour of His Eightieth Birthday" edited by A. T. Tolley. undated
Comb bound unpublished book.

1/7
Biographical information regarding Wystan Auden written by Roy Fuller. 1956
12 pages

This collection contains research materials and notes that Lewis, along with Dr. Irvan M. May, used during their time with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES) to write TAES histories.

Box/Folder
2/1
Legislative Appropriates for Fiscal Years Ending August 31, 1962 and 1963. 1960

2/2
Notes. 1974-1977

2/3
Lists: Grant Gifts, proposed leaflets, addresses, Staff members, etc.

2/4
R. D. Lewis Writings
Pioneer Notes and Reminiscences, Recollections of Agricultural Research: 1946-1962, copied from Red River Valley Historical Review, page 109-118 (3 pages, 2 copies)

"The Soil on Our Dining Table", Sigma Xi Club, A&M College of Texas, January 17, 1950 (7 pages)

"What Do These Sones Mean", presented at the Annual Conference of the Staff of the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, October 12, 1962 (3 pages)

2/5
Miscellaneous Items
Helge Ness by Fred R. Brison, March 1977 (6 pages)

Texas A&M University Archives Annual Report, 1979-1980 (18 pages)

Copy of talk given by R. D. Lewis at Dedication of Foundation Seed Stocks Building, January 10, 1957 (2 pages)

Copy of letter from Lewis to Dr. Jarvis E. Miller re: comments on outline for Ag Experiment Station centennial book. December 12, 1973 (2 pages each, 2 copies)

Notes (8 pages)

Memo from Director Jarvis Miller to Dr. Irvin May. May 30, 1977 (1 page)

2/6
The Robert Donald Lewis Interviews, 1974 (84 pages)

2/7
Articles, Booklets, Clippings, Etc., 1953-1962

Tribute to Justin Morrill by Dorothy Canfield Fisher in Vermont Tradition - The Biography of an Outlook on Life. 1953 (copy)

Address of Dr. Carl W. Borgmann, President, The University of Vermont. Delivered at ceremonies at Strafford, Vermont, Sunday, August 12, 1956, honoring Senator Justin S. Morrill. (copy)

Letter from Nina A. Mason to Donald re: Senator Morrill and Trip to Strafford, Vt., August 20, 1957. August 29, 1957 (2 copies)

Booklet, Lincoln and the Land-Grant Idea, The University of Tennessee News Letter, Vol. XLI, No. 1, February 1962

Booklet, The Concept of Human Progress by Van R. Potter, South Dakota State College, March 1962

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company ad from The Saturday Evening Post, June 9, 1962

Book, Land-Grant Colleges and Universities: 1862-1962, by Henry S. Brunner, OE-50030, Bulletin 1962, No. 13

2/8
Agriculture Handbook No. 381 - Administrative Manual for the Hatch (Experiment Station) Act as
Amended. July 1970

2/9
Publications
Regional Agricultural Research: A Quarter Century of Achievement Through Cooperative Endeavor 1947-1972. Miscellaneous Publication No. 1273. May 1973

Texas Agricultural Progress, Vol. 21, No. 4, Fall 1975

2/10
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Administrative Handbook Index. May 1, 1974

2/11
Articles, Newspapers., 1974-1976

Texagrepor. Annual Report - The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - 1973-1974

Research News Report Summary, Southwestern Great Plains Research Center, 1975

Grain Sorghum News, Vol. 6, No. 5, August 1976

Flyer, 67th Annual Field Day, Lubbock, September 14, 1976

2/12
Irvin M. May, "The Origins and Development of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station: 1888-1892", Panhandle Plains Historical Review, 49 (1976), 55-79. (copy)

2/13
Book: Plants of Big Bend National Park. 1951 (with newspaper clipping and a note inside)

2/14
Book: State Agricultural Experiment Stations: A History of Research Policy and Procedure, Miscellaneous Publication 904. May 1962 (Inscribed to Lewis and signed by H. C. Knoblauch)

2/15
Book: Red Riber Valley Historical Review, Volume 3, No. 1. Winter 1978

Box/Folder
1/1
Correspondence. 1957-1962

1/2
Higher Education Commemorative Stamp, 1962

Letter with envelope to Lewis re: "First-Day Cover" and "Higher Education Stamp". November 14, 1962.

Program from Higher Education Commemorative Stamp Ceremony, November 14, 1962

Complete set of 50 Higher Education 4 cent stamps.

Three "First Day of Issue" JFK envelopes with stamps and postmark, Boston, May 29, 1964

1/3
Correspondence. 1976 (1 of 2)

1/4
Correspondence. 1977 (2 of 2)

1/5
History, 1975 - Project H-1924. 1975 (1of 3)

1/6
History, 1975 - Texas Feed and Fertilizer. 1968-1975 (2 of 3)

1/7
History, 1975 - Project #460, Evaluation and Improvement of Legumes. 1950-1958 (3 of 3)

1/8
History - Notes, work, articles, etc. 1976

1/9
Research: Some Recollections of Agricultural Research, 1946-1962. 1967-1975 (1 of 2)

1/10
Research: Some Recollections of Agricultural Research, 1946-1962. 1974-1977 (2 of 2)

1/11
Research: Significant Contributions and Research Findings. 1974-1975

1/12
Research Project Reviews, 1962-1973

Suggestions on Writing a Research Review (1 page)

Letter to State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors

Circular Letter No. 1138 to Heads of Department and Field Units re: Annual Reports and Reviews of Federal-Grant Projects - New System, November 28, 1962 (4 pages)
Suggestions for Preparing Annual Progress Reports of Federal-Grant Fund Research Projects, CSESS-OD-1006, Rev, 1-10-62 (2 pages)

Proposed New Program for CSESS Review of Research at the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, November 1962 (2 copies, 10 pages each, 1 copy with handwritten edits)

Cooperative Regional Research, November 9, 1962 (2 pages)

Tentative Review Schedule for 1963 (6 pages)

Progress Report to National Aeronautics and Space Administration. October 1973

1/13
Minutes of the Southern Directors Meeting - Working Papers. 1962-1964 (1 of 2)

1/14
Minutes of the Southern Directors Meeting - Working Papers. 1963 (2 of 2)

1/15
Research: Forestry, Facilities and Water Resources (copies)

This collection was compiled to preserve the sentiments of people in many walks of life across Texas A&M University and the surrounding area of Bryan-College Station.

This collection was intentionally developed, pulling together political documentation and radical writings of people of African descent from around the country.

Killer Switches
[Travis Millard and Michael Sieben, auth., 2006]
Comics, Artzine

Objects:

Mailing envelope from Volcom Art Loft
Sealed fanzine
T-shirt (L): "Volcom Stone Presents: Kitten Switches, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX, June 24th, 2006"
Outlet covers (2) with Kitten Switches design

The Texas A&M University Zine Collection is a generalized "floating" collection of zines tied to a set of particular collecting criteria:

• Zines created by Texans, Southwesterners or other Southerners and/or concern Texas, the Southwest and the South; zines created by minorities across Texas, the Southwest or the South; zines created by TAMU students or former students; and Artzines concerned with printing and/or designed as print art objects.

The collection has "Texas A&M University" in the title to reflect the collecting criterion of zines created by A&M students or former students. More importantly, however, the inclusion of the A&M name in the collection title reinforces the collection's connection to the university as well as its major purpose, to help make TAMU a center for the preservation of regional alternative voices.

Future Fantasteek #22
[Jac Batey, auth., July 2023]
Artzine

Anti-Heist: A Willem Dafoe Stuck in An Apartment Fanzine
[Catherine and Lea, auth., November 2024]
Film

Are You Filipino?: Collection of True Stories That Sometimes Hurt Me
[Jean Marie Pilaro Munson, auth., Fall 2021]
Comics, Race

Because The Boss Belongs To Us: Queer Femmes on Bruce Springsteen
[Somerville, MA: Alana Kumbier, ed., March 2011]
Music, LGBT, Perzine

Bookshelf Voyeur: On Scrapbooks #8
[L.J. Williams, auth., undated]
History, Reading

Circle Hills Mall Food Court: Desirous Chomp Season 2, Episode 1
[Piecemeal Fortress, auth., 2025]
Fiction

Circle Hills Mall's Patron Season 2
[Piecemeal Fortress, auth., 2025]
Fiction

Citizen's Guide to Project 2025
[democracyforward.org,, auth., 2025]
Politics, Activism

Dirt In A Cog: Small Ways to Resist Fascism That Make A Big Difference
[Invisible Histories, auth., 2025]
Politics, Activism

Don't Just Do Nothing to Counter Fascism
[November 2024]
Politics, Activism

Doris #29
[Athens, OH: Cindy Crabb, auth., Winter 2012]
Perzine

Frequezine #75
[Undated]
Perzine

L.A. Sucks...And So Do You
[Yolie C., undated]
Poetry

Look-Alike
[Day and Age, auth., undated]
Comics, Race

Lower East Side Librarian 2024
[New York, NY: Jenna Freedman, auth., January 2025]
Perzine, Politics, Activism, Reading

Lululand #3
[Van Nuys, CA: Amy Adoyzie, auth., undated]
Perzine

Lululand #4
[Amy Adoyzie, auth., undated]
Perzine

A Manual For The Immaterial Worker
[Bureau For Open Culture, auth., 2011]
Artzine, Politics

Never Stop Rowing
[Austin, TX: Michael Sieben, auth., November 2009]
Comics

No One Touches Me. I Am Invisible.
[New York City, NY: Printed Matter, pub., 2008]
Politics, Military, Perzine, Antiwar

One By One
[Sabrina C., auth., 2004]
Poetry

Operation Recovery
[Iraq Veterans Against the War and Just Seeds Artists' Cooperative, auth., 2011]
Politics, Antiwar, Artzine

Paper Tigers Smash Media Myths!!!
[Paper Tiger Television, auth., 2011]
Media, Politics

Security
[Sabrina Chaoadjiev, auth., 2005]
Fiction

Strong Arms
[Mel Kadel, auth., 2006]
Comics, Artzine

The Surface of Each Day: Questions for Cosmonauts
[Rags Media Collective, auth., 2008]
Artzine

Texas Hairdid
[Mel Kadel, auth., undated]
Comics

Upon Making Love to a Mermaid
[Russ Kazmierczak, Jr., auth., undated]
Poetry

Visiting Artist
[New York City, NY: Amy Sillman, auth., undated]
Artzine, Perzine

Wipe #35
[Geelong, Vic., Australia: Field Study, auth., undated]
Artzine

Wish You Where Here #1
[Alt Press: 2017]
Travel

Wishes
[R. Mariontell, auth., 2006
Military, Artzine, Antiwar

Zine Librarian Pets #8
[June 2024]
Zine Culture, Pets

Outlaws

Wanted #1
[J. Edwards, ed., May 1997] [g] [h]

The Professionals

The Not-Quite Amateurs
[Salome, auth., 1991] [g]

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
[V.L. Martin, auth., 1991] [s]

Sebastian Collected #2
[Dog House Press: Sebastian, auth., January 2002] [s]

The Professionals/Blake's 7

Bene Dictum #2: Half 'N Half
[Oblique Publications: C.K. Corbis, ed., February 1995] [s]

Quantum Leap

Green Eggs and Ham #3
[Whatever You Do, Don't Press!: Mystery Frank, ed., May 1993] [g]

The Imaging Chamber #1
[Kitty Woldow, ed., October 1989]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #2
[Kitty Woldow, ed., January 1990]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #3
[Monte Cristo-Amethyst Press: Kitty Woldow, ed., April 1990]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #4
[Monte Cristo-Amethyst Press: Kitty Woldow, ed., August 1990]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #5
[Kitty Woldow, ed., November 1990]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #6
[Monte Cristo-Amethyst Press: Kitty Woldow, ed., February 1991]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #7
[Monte Cristo-Amethyst Press: Kitty Woldow, ed., June 1991]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #8
[Kitty Woldow, ed., December 1991]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #9
[Kitty Woldow, ed., April 1992]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #10
[Monte Cristo-Amethyst Press: Kitty Woldow, ed., October 1992]
Letterzine

The Imaging Chamber #11
[Monte Cristo-Amethyst Press: Kitty Woldow, ed., May 1993]
Letterzine

Quantum Quandaries
[Undated] [h]

Quantum Quirkiness
[K. Resch, ed., January 1994] [s]

Robin of Sherwood

Herne's Son #1
[L. Patterson, ed., March 1988] (4th printing April 1989) [g] [h]

Herne's Son #2
[Dragonbane Press: Fall/Winter 1988] [h]

Sunset Over Sherwood
[Dragonbane Press: D. Linn, auth., 1988] [g]

Tales From Sherwood
[Otter Limits Press: Paulie and Tami Marie, ed., August 1988] [g]

Under The Greenwood Tree
[Great Raven Press: Sue Bursztynski, ed., 1989] [g]

Wolfshead
[Jody Lynn Nye, ed., 1986] [g]

The Sandbaggers

First Principles #2
[Michael Macomber and Caryn Dunkel, ed., 1992] [s]

A Sense of Occasion #5
[Pat Nussman, ed., January 1991]
Apazine

The Sentinel

Lost and Found
[Bodacious Press: G. Middleton, auth., April 1998] [s]

New Beginnings
[The Presses: J. Eaglefeather, auth., October 2001] [s]

Simon and Simon

Gettin' Frisky with Simon/Simon
[Almost Foolproof Press: D. Fisher, ed., May 2000] [s]

More Than Brothers #6
[Rowena G. Warner, ed., July 1986] [g]

More Than Brothers #7
[Rowena G. Warner, ed., May 1987] [g]

Sime/Gen

Of Simes, Gens, Adepts, Kren: The Universes of Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah
[Catherinr A. Filipowicz, ed., 1980]
Fanzine

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Eridani #1
[Randall Landers, ed., 1988] [g]

The Hive
[Ankh Press: R. Debono, auth., 1987] [h]

NCC-1701D #2
[J. Edwards, ed., Summer 1988] [h]

NCC-1701D #3
[J. Edwards, ed., November 1988] [h]

1701-D#1
[J. Edwards, ed., January 1988] [h]

Star Wars

Bloodstripe #3
[Carolyn Golledge, ed., May 2002] [g]

Bloodstripe #4
[Carolyn Golledge, ed., May 2003] [g]

Han Solo: Musings: A Corellian Pamphlet
[L. Sauder and L. Bowland, auth., 1980] [h]

Matrix One
[Titan Press: Nikki Caldwell and J. Randon Smith, ed., 1984] [g]

Never Say Die #4
[Carolyn Golledge, auth., May 2003] [g]

Starsky and Hutch

Intermission #2
[Magic Carpet Press: S. Chapman, ed., July 1985] [g] [s]

One More Manhattan
[Chris Power and Terri Beckett, auth., 1981] [g]

Postscript
[Requiem Press: Rebelcat, auth., September 2005] [h]

Starsky and Hutch Episode and Character Guide
[Undated]

Supernatural

Route 666 #2
[Ashton Press: Ann Wortham, ed., May 2010] [g]

Valdemar (Mercedes Lackey)

Arrow's Message #1 - 6 (March/April 1990 - January/February 1991) [Stephanie Wong, ed.]
Fanzine

Arrow's Message #7 - 11 (March/April 1991 - November/December 1991) and vol. 3 #1 (Spring 1992) [Stephanie Wong, ed.]
Fanzine

War of the Worlds

Alien Sushi #1
[Cosmic Travelers: 1989] [g]

Wiseguy

Unfinished Business
[Almond Press: Elizabeth Ford, ed., November 1988] [g]

Hawaii Five-O

Force of Waves #1
[1992] [g]

Highlander: The Series

Highland Fling #1
[Solstice Press: Peggy Spaulding and Carol J.E. Schorn, ed., 1994] [g]

Highland Fling #2
[Solstice Press: Peggy Spaulding and Carol J.E. Schorn, ed., 1995] [g]

Highland Fling #4
[Solstice Press: Peggy Spaulding and Carol J.E. Schorn, ed., 1998] [g]

Rules of the Game #4
[Of Dreams and Schemes Press: Catherine Schlein and Debi Barbich, ed., May 1998] [g]

White Rabbit
[Bound in Leather Press: Dargelos, auth., February 2000] [s]

Indiana Jones

Tales For The Telling
[Solo Ventures: Karen Ripley, auth., June 1983] [g]

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

That Was Zen, This Was Tao #1
[Whatever You Do, Don't Press!: Mysti Frank, May 1995] [g]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Dark Encounters
[C. Willard, auth., 1985] [s]

11 & 2 #5
[Otter Limits Press: Paulie and Tami Marie, ed., May 1990] [g]

Exposures #1
[deaux Emes Press: K. Clarke, ed., January 1988] (Reprint) [s]

Exposures #2
[Otter Limits Press: K. Clarke, ed.,1988] [s]

Exposures #3
[Nopett's World Press: L. Howlett, J. McCoy, I. Murphy, and K. Clarke, ed., August 1989] [s]

The Paladins Affair #2
[undated] [g] [s]

Tales of Two Uncles #2
[Novelty Shop Press: D. Arellanes, ed., undated] [g] [s]

Miami Vice

Vice Verse #1
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, ed., October 1989] [g]

Vice Verse #2
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, ed., February 1992] [g]

Multimedia

Don't Blink #1
[Sockii Press: Nicole Pelegrini, ed., October 1988] [g]

Frisky: Above and Beyond
[Almost Foolproof Press: A. Teitelbaum and D. Fisher, ed., May 1996] [s]

A Frisky Out Of Water
[Almost Foolproof Press: D. Fisher and A. Teitelbaum, ed., October 1995] [s]

Our Favorite Things #5
[Elan Press: April 1989] [g]

Our Favorite Things #6
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1990] [g]

Our Favorite Things #7
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1991] [g]

Our Favorite Things #8
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1992] [g]

Our Favorite Things #9
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1993] [g]

Our Favorite Things #10
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1994] [g]

Our Favorite Things #11
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1995] [g]

Our Favorite Things #12
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1996] [g]

Our Favorite Things #14
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1998] [g]

Our Favorite Things #15
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 1999] [g]

Our Favorite Things #17
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 2001] [g]

Our Favorite Things #18
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 2002] [g]

Our Favorite Things #19
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 2003] [g]

Our Favorite Things #21
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 2005] [g]

Our Favorite Things #22
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 2006 [g]

Our Favorite Things #24
[Elan Press: Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, 2008] [g]

Our Favorite Things #25
[Elan Press: Elaine M. Batterby and Anne E. Batterby, 2009] [g]

Our Favorite Things #26
[Elan Press: Elaine M. Batterby and Anne E. Batterby, 2010] [g]

Our Favorite Things #27
[Elan Press: Anne E. Batterby and Elaine M. Batterby, 2011] [g]

Our Favorite Things #29
[Elan Press: Anne E. Batterby and Elaine M. Batterby, 2013] [g]

Our Favorite Things #30
[Elan Press: Anne E. Batterby and Elaine M. Batterby, 2014] [g]

The Sonic Screwdriver #2
[Osiris Publications: Joy Harrison, ed., 1987] [g]

The Sonic Screwdriver #5
[Osiris Publications: Joy Harrison, ed., June 1989] [g]

What You Fancy #1
[Clean Slate Press: Sharon Monroe, ed., February 1988] [g]

Wide Open Spaces #1
[Roberta Rogow and Leah Rosenthal, ed., October 1978] [g]

Wide Open Spaces #2
[Roberta Rogow and Leah Rosenthal, ed., March 1979] [g]

Beauty and the Beast

'One Day, A Rapture'
[P. Garrett, auth., November 1989] [h]

Tunneltalk #1
[Barbara L.B. Storey and Victoria H. Clark, ed., March 1990]
Letterzine

Blake's 7

Down and Unsafe #3
[Kathy Hanson, ed., undated' [g]

E-Man-Uelle #1
[undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #2
[undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #3
[undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #4
[undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #6
[undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #7
[undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #8: Puppeteer
[B. Lantry, auth., undated] [s]

E-Man-Uelle #9: The Final Chapter
[undated] [s]

54124 #1
[TASAS/Avalon: Sheila Paulson and Kathy Hintz, auth., undated] [g]

Gambit #6
[Peacock Press: Jean Graham, ed., August 1990] [g]

Gambit #7
[Peacock Press: Jean Graham, ed., June 1991] [g]

Gambit #11
[Peacock Press: Jean Graham, ed., March 1994] [g]

Gambit 12
[Peacock Press: Jean Graham, ed., November 1994] [g]

Horizon #1
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., undated] [g]

Horizon #2
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., undated] [g]

Horizon #3
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., undated] [g]

Horizon #5
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., undated] [g]

Horizon #6
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., 1984] (2nd printing April 1987) [g]

Horizon #7
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Ann Steele, ed., 1985] (3rd printing February 1989) [g]

Horizon #8
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Diane Gies, ed., March 1986] [g]

Horizon #9
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., December 1986] [g]

Horizon #10
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Pat Thomas, ed., April 1987] [g]

Horizon #11
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Ann Steele, ed., January 1988] [g]

Horizon #12
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Ann Steele, ed., October 1988] [g]

Horizon #13
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Ann Steele, ed., June 1989] [g]

Horizon #14
[Blake's Seven Appreciation Society: Ann Steele, ed., March 1990] [g]

Oracle #15
[Jane M. King, ed., February 1988]
Newsletter

Oracle #16
[Jane M. King, ed., May/June1988]
Newsletter

Oracle #17
[Jane M. King, ed., 1989]
Newsletter

Oracle #21
[Spring 1990]
Newsletter

Rebel Destinies #1
[P. Kennedy, ed., January 1994] [g] [h] [s]

Shaman
[Space Rat Press: Joe Nazzaro, auth., July 1990] [g]

Something Unfriendly #1
[Cathi Brown, ed., May 1988] [g]

Southern Comfort #7.5
[Ashton Press: A. Wortham, ed., 1993] [h] [s]

The World Turned Upside-Down
[Spice Press: Sandy Hall, auth., July 1987] [g]

Crossover

[Dark Shadows/Star Trek: The Original Series Shadows Trek
[J.M. Lane, auth., 2002] [g]

[The Sentinel/Quantum Leap] Storm Sign
[The Presses: Legion, auth., May 2000] [s]

David Warner

Roscius Maximus #2
[Otter Limits Press: Paulie Gilmore, ed., May 1983] [g]

Doctor Who

Who-rotica#1
[RAJ Productions: A. Haskell, ed., 1981] [h]

The Media Fanzine Collection is comprised of numerous pre-Internet fan-produced publications that document their involvement in a particular fandom. Fandoms are based around media productions such as movies (i.e. the Star Wars film series) or television shows (i.e. Star Trek in its various iterations). Although traditionally most media fandoms involve productions from the science fiction and fantasy genres, there are numerous exceptions.

The majority of the contents in this collection consists of fan fiction. Fan fiction is the name given to literary or artistic productions created by fans about the characters, settings and events of the media universe in which they are interested. A substantial portion of the fanworks in the Media Fanzine Collection is identified as "slash”. "Slash" refers to fanworks that feature same-sex relationships and are sometimes (though not always) sexually explicit. In slash, sexual identity, sexuality and/or romance are often the centers of the story, rather than the conventional adventures featured in more traditional fanworks.

A small portion of the collection consists of "het" material. "Het", like slash, refers to fanworks featuring sexual or romantic content, but with opposite-sex relationships.

Slash and het items are identified as such on the item folder. If an item is not identified as slash or het, it is to be assumed that the item is “gen” (containing no sexual or romantic content. Both slash and het items have been specifically identified because of their importance as highly visible fan fiction subcultures. (s) indicates slash material. (h) indicates het material.

Fanzines are organized alphabetically by fandom name, and thereunder by title. The term “Multimedia” refers to anthologies of material from different fandoms. The term “Crossover” refers to stories in which characters from one or more media universes interact with those from another. (For example, a story in which Mal Reynolds' ship Serenity passed through a wormhole and encountered Captain James T. Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise would be a Firefly/Star Trek crossover.)

The October 2016 Addendum includes several "friend books", tiny zines used by pre-teens and teens in the 1970s and 1980s as a way of finding other like-minded fans in the pre-Internet era. Some "friend books" were sized small enough to fit into an international envelope (2-3 inches), and consisted of no more than a few pages. The covers were pages cut from magazines or advertisement and were stapled or taped into a booklet shape. Many were multi-fandom, but some focused on single fandoms like Star Wars. Fans would write their name and address, and list their interests. The book would then passed along to the next fan. When the booklet was filled it was to be mailed back to the original fan. Often times questions were asked (ex: Who is your favorite Star Wars character?)

There are several additional items, including materials from genre conventions, ads and flyers, professional publications that relate to various fandoms, and various items of printed realia. The Christina Pilz February 2024 Addendum contains a number of fanzine advertisements and documentation devoted to fanzine and fanfic productions.

Sub-Series 1 of the Georgia Barnes Addendum contains maps of the Star Trek universe, and has therefore been filed with other items in the Maps Of Imaginary Places Collection.

Audio-Visual Materials

The collection also contains non-print materials. There are a significant number of fanvids in the collection (and the fandoms for those vids are noted in the finding aid). There are also several DVDs that contain recordings of fanfiction podcasts, from a number of different fandoms.

On Star Trek

Since 1966 there have been 5 non-animated television iterations of the television franchise Star Trek. Each one has its own dedicated fandom (although certainly many Trekkers are fans of multiple series), and each one has a generally accepted denotation. Those denotations are used in this collection, as follows:

Star Trek [TOS] refers to the original series(1966-1969).

Star Trek [TNG] refers to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994).

Star Trek [DS9] refers to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999).

Star Trek [VGR] refers to Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001).

Star Trek [ENT] refers to Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005).

On The Professionals Circuit Archive:

There are several boxes of fanfiction from The Professionals Circuit Archive. The Circuit Archive is a singular form of fannish creative association, that for The Professionals fans actually predates the creation of more typical zines. In a standard fanzine distribution, a fan or group of fans will write, edit and publish a fanzine, and the publication will be printed and made available for sale. With The Professionals fandom, things began much more informally. Fans would place their stories 'on the circuit'. That is, they would write their stories and then produce photocopies; the copies would then be circulated among one another via standard mail. In time, certain fans began collecting copies together into 'circuit libraries'. Interested fans could become members of these informal lending libraries, and would receive titles on request, which they could read and /or photocopy and then return to the library. Although, in time, The Professionals fans began producing zines in the same ways that other fans did, much of the fanfiction remained (and remains) on the circuit.

By the late 1980s, two large circuit libraries were in place: one in Great Britain, and another in the United States. They enjoyed considerable overlap in their contents, but because of geographical distance and the informality of circuit distribution did not duplicate each other. In the early 1990s, as zines started entering the electronic era, fans began working to convert the vast number of paper stories into an electronic format that would encourage and increase access (as well as help preserve the much-used paper originals). In 1996, the Circuit Archive went online and continues to periodically increase its contents with new stories. The Circuit Archive, sprung from humble beginnings, now holds more than 1000 individual stories, which form the backbone of The Professionals creative fandom.

To quote Morgan Dawn, "the circuit library in the Professionals fandom is a unique tradition of women writing and sharing fan fiction (often anonymously) without going through the editorial and fanzine publication process. In many ways, it is the precursor to the fan fiction on the Internet where people would read a story, photo-copy it and send it on to someone else, and then write a response story, copy that and mail it on in an endless flow...and because The Professionals was a UK show, you have the unique situation where this communication was crossing both cultural and geographic barriers." Stories in these folders include both gen and slash.

The Sam Moskowitz collection consists of his research files, correspondence, manuscripts, many of his books, and working documents related to his study of the history of science fiction and fantasy.  Drafts of two unpublished books are included.

1-9/1: 2025 Winners: Medrado (1st); Adkins (2nd); West (3rd)

1-9/2: 2025 Honorable Mentions: Roberts; Truong; Li

1-9/3: Other 2025 Entries: Barnhardt - Juranek

1-9/4: Other 2025 Entries: Kane - Vu

This collection contains short story entries made by Texas A&M students in the Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Creative Writing Contest, co-sponsored since 2017 by the Department of English and Cushing Memorial Library & Archives.

Entries include Winners, Honorable Mentions, and all other entries.

Box/Folder
36/1: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. January 4, 1992 - February 12, 1992

36/2: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. February 6, 1992 - March 26, 1992

36/3: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. March 27, 1992 - May 28, 1992

36/4: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. June 4, 1992 - August 31, 1992

36/5: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. September 1, 1992 - October 12, 1992

36/6: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. October 14, 1992 - January 4, 1993

36/7: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. February 25, 1993 - June 15, 1993

36/8: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. April 26, 1993 - August 27, 1993

36/9: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. October 19, 1992 - February 18, 1993

36/10: Correspondence - Don Adam. September 18, 1989 - May 4, 1992

36/11: Correspondence - Elaine Adams. January 29, 1989 - February 1989

36/12: Correspondence - Phil Adams. January 15, 1991 - February 14, 1991

36/13: Correspondence - John Adrias. October 31, 1988

36/14: Correspondence - Charles Albert. October 26, 1990 - November 30, 1990

36/15: Correspondence - Albert Alkek. October 25, 1989 - January 4, 1993

36/16: Correspondence - Gary Anderson. December 5, 1988 - February 10, 1989

36/17: Correspondence - James W. Aston. February 15, 1993

36/18: Correspondence - Bubba Bean. August 30, 1989 - February 19, 1990

36/19: Correspondence - Senator Lloyd Bentsen. February 1, 1989 - May 2, 1991

36/20: Correspondence - John Bockris. April 7, 1992 - June 1, 1992

36/21: Correspondence - Cathy Bonner. September 18, 1992 - November 30, 1992

36/22: Correspondence - Bum Bright. February 9, 1989 - March 5, 1991

36/23: Correspondence - Barry Brummett. April 11, 1990 - April 19, 1990

36/24: Correspondence - Milton Bryant. March 21, 1991 - May 20, 1991

36/25: Correspondence - George H.W. Bush. January 24, 1992 - May 28, 1993

36/26: Correspondence - Neil Bush. August 6, 1991 - August 26, 1991

36/27: Correspondence - Gershon Canaan. December 14, 1989 - September 18, 1992

36/28: Correspondence - Kent Caperton. December 31, 1990

36/29: Correspondence - Lauro Cavazos. January 28, 1991

36/30: Correspondence - Bob Cherry. August 10, 1988 - November 24, 1992

36/31: Correspondence - Henry Cisneros. December 7, 1992 - June 15, 1993

36/32: Correspondence - Bill Clayton. September 25, 1989 - December 7, 1991

36/33: Correspondence - Bill Clinton. February 22, 1993 - March 1, 1993

36/34: Correspondence - Keith Cole. February 4, 1991 - February 11, 1991

36/35: Correspondence - Dick Connolly. November 15, 1990 - December 11, 1992

36/36: Correspondence - F.A. Cotton. April 7, 1989 - July 9, 1991

36/37: Correspondence - Dean Corrigan. January 23, 1989 - December 12, 1990

36/38: Correspondence - John David Crow. April 12, 1989 - April 7, 1993

36/39: Correspondence - John Cozart. April 27, 1989 - May 27, 1991

36/40: Correspondence - Cozart Communications. February 19, 1990 - November 15, 1990

36/41: Correspondence - Michael DeBakey. August 11, 1988 - September 21, 1988

36/42: Correspondence - Representative Wilhelmina Delco. January 30, 1989

36/43: Correspondence - Dianne Delisi. September 10, 1990

36/44: Correspondence - Frank Denius. October 2, 1988 - October 26, 1988

36/45: Correspondence - Richard DeVaul. December 21, 1992 - February 18, 1993

Box/Folder
1/21: Photos. circa 1860s-1884
-Gov. James W. Throckmorton. circa 1860s-1880s (1 photo)
-General Hardiwan. circa 1860s-1880s (1 photo)
-J. R. Cole. 1883-1884 (1 original, 2 reprints)

Box/Folder
1/16: Correspondence. 1970-1971 (3 pages)
-To Ernest Langford from Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor). December 19, 1970 (2 pages, handwritten and typed)
-To Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor) from Ernest Langford. January 5, 1971 (1 page, typed)

Box/Folder
1/15: Correspondence. 1960 (3 pages)
-To David Brooks Cofer from Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor), "Granddaughter of J. R. Cole". January 29, 1960 (1 page, handwritten)
-To Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor) from David Brooks Cofer. February 3, 1960 (2 pages, typed)

Box/Folder
1/11: Correspondence. 1951 (3 pages)
-To M. T. Harrington from J. R. Cole II. August 24, 1951 (2 pages, typed)
-To J. R. Cole II from M. T. Harrington. August 27, 1951 (1 page, typed)

Box/Folder
1/2: Clippings. 1884-1970 (2 with xerox copies, 2 pasted/adhered)
-"At the College". May 2, 1884 (1 plastine with 1 xerox copy)
-"Monday Night, June 19". circa 1884 (1 plastine with 1 xerox copy)
-"Gen. Lewis Draws Out An Explanation" from The Statesman. March 25, 1881 (Pasted)
-"James Cole Opened School in 1889" from Dallas Morning News. November 2, 1970 (Pasted)

Box/Folder
1/1: Teaching Certificates. 1871-1872 (2 pages, typed)

1/2: Clippings. 1884-1970 (2 with xerox copies, 2 pasted/adhered)
-"At the College". May 2, 1884 (1 plastine with 1 xerox copy)
-"Monday Night, June 19". circa 1884 (1 plastine with 1 xerox copy)
-"Gen. Lewis Draws Out An Explanation" from The Statesman. March 25, 1881 (Pasted)
-"James Cole Opened School in 1889" from Dallas Morning News. November 2, 1970 (Pasted)

1/3: Correspondence - To J. R. Cole from J. A. Gilmer. June 12, 1876 (1 page, handwritten)

1/4: Correspondence - To J. R. Cole from Thomas S. Gathright. August 27, 1878 (5 pages, handwritten)

1/5: Correspondence - To J. R. Cole from Thomas S. Gathright. November 4, 1879 (2 pages and 1 envelope, handwritten)

1/6: Correspondence - To "My Dear Wife" (Mary P. Cole) from J. R. Cole. November 23, 1879 (2 pages, handwritten)

1/7: Correspondence - To "My Dear Wife" (Mary P. Cole) from J. R. Cole. December 9, 1879 (1 page, handwritten)

1/8: Correspondence - From J. R. Cole, "Action of the Faculty on receiving intelligence of the death of Lieutenant Governor E. B. Pickett". January 1882 (1 page, handwritten)

1/9: Correspondence - Letter of "Endorsement of Louis L. McInnis (for J. R. Cole), Chairman of Faculty. January 1886". December 29, 1885 (1 fragile page in mylar with xerox copy, handwritten)

1/10: Correspondence - To J. R. Cole from T. M. Scott. July 8, 1887 (1 page, handwritten)

1/11: Correspondence. 1951 (3 pages)
-To M. T. Harrington from J. R. Cole II. August 24, 1951 (2 pages, typed)
-To J. R. Cole II from M. T. Harrington. August 27, 1951 (1 page, typed)

1/12: Correspondence - To David Brooks Cofer from J. R. Cole II. October 30, 1952 (1 page, typed)

1/13: Correspondence - To David Brooks Cofer from J. R. Cole II. December 9, 1954 (1 page with 1 envelope, typed)

1/14: Correspondence - To David Brooks Cofer from J. R. Cole II. May 6, 1955 (1 page with 1 envelope, typed)

1/15: Correspondence. 1960 (3 pages)
-To David Brooks Cofer from Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor), "Granddaughter of J. R. Cole". January 29, 1960 (1 page, handwritten)
-To Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor) from David Brooks Cofer. February 3, 1960 (2 pages, typed)

1/16: Correspondence. 1970-1971 (3 pages)
-To Ernest Langford from Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor). December 19, 1970 (2 pages, handwritten and typed)
-To Grace D. Taylor (Mrs. Paul Taylor) from Ernest Langford. January 5, 1971 (1 page, typed)

1/17: Photostatic Copies of Certificate and Correspondence. 1872-1879 (10 pages)
-Teaching Certificate for J. R. Cole. September 26, 1871 (1 page)
-To J. R. Cole from J. A. Gilmer. June 12, 1876 (2 pages, handwritten)
-To J. R. Cole from Thomas S. Gathright. August 27, 1878 (5 pages, handwritten)
-To J. R. Cole from Thomas S. Gathright. November 4, 1879 (2 pages, handwritten)

1/18: Diaries. 1883-1884 (14 pages)
-Diary on J. G. James Letterhead. March 15-19, 1883 (5 pages, handwritten)
-Diary of J. R. Cole. August 1884 (9 pages, handwritten)

1/19: Notes - "Report of J. R. Cole, Third Administrator for A & M Students". August 1884 (7 pages, handwritten)

1/20: Notes - "Checking Reproductions against Originals". undated (3 pages, handwritten)

1/21: Photos. circa 1860s-1884
-Gov. James W. Throckmorton. circa 1860s-1880s (1 photo)
-General Hardiwan. circa 1860s-1880s (1 photo)
-J. R. Cole. 1883-1884 (1 original, 2 reprints)

1/22: State Agricultural and Mechanical College Letterhead featuring J. R. Cole Jr.'s name. circa 1800s (1 in plastine, typed)

1/23: Publication - Testimonials Endorsing Prof. J. R. Cole, A. M. of the A & M College of Texas (original copy). March 1882

1/24: Publication - Seven Decades of My Life by James Reid Cole (J. R.) (original copy). 1913

1/25: Publication - The Christian Advocate (original copy). September 4, 1952 (Cole article on page 8-10)

1/26: Publication - Southern Union News - Southern Union Gas Company (original copy). November 1952

1/27: Publication - The Kings and The Coles (genealogy, original copy with notations). 1954

1/28: Publication - Supplement to First Five Administrators of Texas A. & M. College - James Reid Cole, 1879-1885 by David Brooks Cofer (original copy). 1955

This collection contains the checks, personal correspondence, and promissory notes of Lafayette Lumpkin Foster. He was the former president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) from 1889 until his death in 1901. Additionally, this collection includes his funeral notice and the resolution of death by the A&M Board of Directors.

Box/Folder
4/1: Clippings. August 1 - September 7, 1908 (19 pages)
-Farm and Ranch. "A Student's View". August 1, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 2 pages. 3 pages total)
-The Houston Post, "Proposed Engineering Building A. and M. College". August 2, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-The Houston Post, "Harrington Resigns Presidency of A. & M.". August 8, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-The Galveston Daily News (?), "Harrington Quits, Milner Successor", "Alumni to Support Milner". August 8, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-The Eagle, "New President of A. and M.", "Harrington Resigns, Milner Appointed". August 8, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-Farm and Ranch, "New President of A. & M.". August 15, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-"Outlook Good - President Legett Talks of the Coming College Year", "Dr. Harrington will accept Directorship". circa August 16 - September 7, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-The Houston Post, "Captain Julius A. Penn of the Army makes Report", "Further Developments in the A. and M. College Affair Prospective". August 19, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)
-"A. & M. Patrons - Issue Addressed in the Interest of the College". August 20, 1908 (1 page of clippings in mylar with xerox copy, 1 page. 2 pages total)