Elton Miles collection, 1922-1984.

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Elton Miles collection, 1922-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26954429

Contains 16,100 leaves: correspondence, research files, student papers, oral history tapes and photographs on folklore, history of the Big Bend area and H. Allen Smith.

10 boxes (10 cubic feet)

Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library, Sul Ross State University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7173582

Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library, Sul Ross State University Library

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