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
KAS ~ Manuscript | 5/20/2024 Category: Communication ArtifactSubcategory: Documentary ArtifactAccession #: 2011.37.001Received As: DonationReceived...
Portraits of Louise Marsh, Frances Prestwood, Lovie Roberts and Ruth Hambrick, 1915
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...
Alma Woldert Spence Letter dated June 4 1915
Recently SCHS employee Candis Lively was entering information in our museum software from a donation I made to the Archives of a 1915 Alcalde...
Alliene Gaston Coker: The First Woman Elected as an Officer of a Tyler Bank
At our April 2019 monthly meeting, Kathy Gaston, a Smith County Historical Society Board member, spoke about Alliene Gaston Coker, the first woman...
World War Nurse Buried (Gertrude Brogan)
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...
