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“Unmistakably Tyler II” | Magazine of the TEDC

May 22, 2024 | Archives, General, Smith County Women

Normally, we wouldn’t dedicate an entire blog post to a single item—but this find is just too special not to share. At an estate sale last year, I...

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Katie A. Stewart Collection, 2011.37.001

May 2, 2024 | African Americans, Archives, Collections, General, Smith County Women

KAS ~ Manuscript | 5/20/2024 Category: Communication ArtifactSubcategory: Documentary ArtifactAccession #: 2011.37.001Received As: DonationReceived...

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Portraits of Louise Marsh, Frances Prestwood, Lovie Roberts and Ruth Hambrick, 1915

Aug 19, 2019 | Photographers, Smith County Women

In my previous blog, Alma Woldert Spence Letter dated June 4 1915, I mentioned the portraits found in the 1915 Alcalde school annual. We have...

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Alma Woldert Spence Letter dated June 4 1915

Aug 10, 2019 | Archives, General, Smith County Women

Recently SCHS employee Candis Lively was entering information in our museum software from a donation I made to the Archives of a 1915 Alcalde...

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Alliene Gaston Coker: The First Woman Elected as an Officer of a Tyler Bank

Alliene Gaston Coker: The First Woman Elected as an Officer of a Tyler Bank

Apr 8, 2019 | Archives, Collections, Events & Meetings, Museum, Programs, Smith County Women

At our April 2019 monthly meeting, Kathy Gaston, a Smith County Historical Society Board member, spoke about Alliene Gaston Coker, the first woman...

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World War Nurse Buried (Gertrude Brogan)

May 11, 2018 | Archives, Military, Smith County Women, World War I

Roses Dropped By Planes While World War Nurse Buried The following, taken from the Tyler Courier-Times in connection with the death and funeral of...

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