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San Jacinto Centennial Association (1935-1938). San Jacinto Centennial Association : Records, 1935-1938 1935-1936.

Title: San Jacinto Centennial Association : Records, 1935-1938 1935-1936.

The records contain almost a complete history of the San Jacinto Centennial Association and the Houston events of the Texas Centennial of 1936. Included are: minutes and correspondence of the Executive Committee and Executive Secretary; financial records including ledgers and payroll files; deed of gift and loans files for museum objects exhibited in the Museum of Houston and Texas History; Association publications as well as Texas Centennial News and Centennial Review, two official publications of the State of Texas; memorabilia such as ribbons created for participants in the Association's Water Carnival; architectural drawings of the proposed Pioneer Memorial later erected by the Association; photographs, including of billboards erected throughout the American Southwest to advertise the Association's events; and two scrapbooks of clippings from local newspapers covering the creation of the Association, the Centennial and the events hosted in Houston in 1936.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes (18.16 linear ft.) : some photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41351987 View

Biography -- Wharton, Clarence Ray.

Title: Biography -- Wharton, Clarence Ray.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310372173 View

Biography -- Wharton, Clarence Ray -- One Hundred Years Ago Today in Texas.

Title: Biography -- Wharton, Clarence Ray -- One Hundred Years Ago Today in Texas.

ArchivalResource: 2 file folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310372174 View

Wharton, Edward Clifton, 1827-1891. Edward Clifton Wharton family papers, 1819-1947 (bulk 1819-1901).

Title: Edward Clifton Wharton family papers, 1819-1947 (bulk 1819-1901).

Papers of four generations of the Wharton family are comprised of correspondence, manuscript writings, manuscript volumes, photographs, printed items and broadsides. Correspondence includes letters of Edward Clifton Wharton, his father; Franklin Wharton and other relatives, especially members of the Baylor family. The Baylor letters provide information on early Texas history, Mexican relations, the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas, Indian frontier wars and affairs, and the California Gold Rush. Correspondence of Edward C. Wharton reflects his close association with prominent writers and historians. Included is a long series of letters from Louisiana historian Charles Gayarre. Papers of Franklin Wharton pertain to his migration in 1825 from Frederickstown, Maryland, to the Arkansas Territory; his duties at Fort Smith including his service as postmaster; and as lieutenant colonel in the Crawford County Regiment of the Arkansas Territory. Among the manuscript volumes are an address book (1886-1887); notebook entries concerning the Confederate States Navy and Pierre Soule (1887); diaries of Edward C. Wharton with entries concerning the New Orleans Exposition (March 1886) and a visit to General Beauregard (June 1886); the travel diary (1825) of Franklin Wharton; and the diary (1893) of Jennie P. Wharton recording her illness, the birth and death of her infant daughter, and New Orleans opera and theater. Memorandum books of Edward C. Wharton pertain to his association with the PICAYUNE (1875) and newspaper advertising. Included is a list of letters to the TIMES-PICAYUNE, a travel expense account, orders for WAR of BACHELORS, a listing of advertisements, and genealogical notes concerning the Louisiana Goodmans and Franklin Wharton (1882-1884). Manuscript writings consist of published and unpublished novels, plays and articles by Edward C. Wharton. Among the photographs are several portraits of Wharton and Baylor family members including a daguerreotype of Colonel George Wythe Baylor, aide-de-camp to General Albert Sidney Johnson (1861), photographs of General John G. Walker, Lieutenant Richard Dowling and Albert Pike. Broadsides include the Louisiana Senate Roll for 1867, two form letters from Dozier G. Hebert and a list of military personnel taking part in the war "West of the Mississippi." Printed items contain newspaper clippings, principally from Texas,several Southern newspapers, pamphlets including BATTLE of SAN JACINTO and the SAN JACINTO CAMPAIGN by L.W. Kemp and Ed Kilman (1947), 1st Louisiana Regiment roster (n.d.) and a Baylor College commencement address (1884). Other printed materials consist of periodicals and printed volumes, among which are REPUBLIC of TEXAS by Clarence Wharton and Anne H. Wharton's GENEALOGY of the WHARTON FAMILY.

ArchivalResource: 1,130 items.12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244299948 View

B. Rice Aston collection MC136., 1887-1989, (Bulk: 1923-1954)

Title: B. Rice Aston collection 1887-1989 (Bulk: 1923-1954)

This collection contains copies of newspaper articles about Texas history.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/sjmh/00136/00136-P.html View

San Jacinto Centennial Association records MC001., 1935-1938, (Bulk: 1935-1936)

Title: San Jacinto Centennial Association records 1935-1938 (Bulk: 1935-1936)

The records contain almost a complete history of the San Jacinto Centennial Association and the Houston events of the Texas centennial of 1936.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/sjmh/00001/00001-P.html View

Wharton, Clarence, 1873-1941. The Goliad campaign [manuscript] : scrapbook, 1933.

Title: The Goliad campaign [manuscript] : scrapbook, 1933.

A series of 24 Dallas News articles by Clarence R. Wharton, serializing an account of the Texas Revolution, compiled by an unknown individual.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310567125 View