James E. "Monk" Vance Photograph Collection, 1949-1985

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was born on January 6, 1882, in a rural area of Roane County, Tennessee. At age five, Rayburn, along with his parents and nine siblings, moved to a forty-acre cotton farm in Flag Springs, Texas. One more child was born after the move to Texas, and every member of the family had to do their share to make the farm profitable. Rayburn's interest in government coincided with the family's move, and it has been suggested that his curiosity intensified due to the "great golden...

Texas A&M University System

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Matthews, Watt

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Shivers, Allan, 1907-

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Mahan, Larry

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Hurd, Peter

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YO Ranch

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Holly Sugar Corporation

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Building located in Colorado Springs, Colo. From the description of Architectural renderings, 1963. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 43422102 ...

Vance, James E.

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Physician, surgeon, and bird hunting enthusiast who practiced medicine in El Paso, Texas, from around the turn of the century until his death in 1955. From the description of James Vance manuscript. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37720735 James E. "Monk" Vance, longtime Texas agricultural writer and photographer, was born in Iola, Texas, in 1918 and was raised in Bryan, Texas. Vance graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in agriculture in 1941, and served in the U...

Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996

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Ralph Webster Yarborough (b. June 8, 1903, Chandler, Tex.-d. Jan. 27, 1996, Austin, Tex.), U.S. Senator from Texas, attended West Point and the Sam Houston State Teachers College, taught school in Texas, and spent one year in Germany as assistant secretary for the American Chamber of Commerce. He served in the Texas National Guard for three years before graduating from the University of Texas law school in 1927. He was assistant attorney general of Texas in the early 1930s and was elected distri...

Kelton, Elmer

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Texas Agricultural Extension Service

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Vance, James E., 1918-1987

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James E. "Monk" Vance, longtime Texas agricultural writer and photographer, was born in Iola, Texas, in 1918 and was raised in Bryan, Texas. Vance graduated from Texas A & M University with a B.S. in agriculture in 1941, and served in the Air Force from 1941 to 1946. He went to work for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service in 1946, but left in 1949 to become the farm and ranch editor at the Beaumont Enterprise. Vance returned to Texas A & M in 1954 as the ass...

Ramsey, Ben

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