Dot Thornton Papers 1859-1976

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Dot Thornton Papers 1859-1976

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/aushc/00179/00179-P.html

Dot (Mary Fitzhugh) Thornton was a long time Austin, Texas resident and school teacher who died in 1971. The photographs, travel journals, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and photo album document her personal and professional life as well as provide genealogical information about the Fitzhugh and Thornton families.

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Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.

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