DeGolyer Library Archival Collections: D-E

The Dallas Browning Club was a women's literary club that met to discuss the works of Robert Browning and other British authors. This collection is arranged chronologically and includes the minutes from each year's meetings, as well as programs, newspaper clippings regarding members, and photographs. An oversize group photograph is in a separate oversize box. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Davis Company, Ltd. was a Hong Kong and New York business directed by Paula Davis in the early part of the twentieth century. The company’s interests included construction, railroad development, mineral exploration, harbor improvement, mills, Dragon Car Motor Company, and the unsuccessful manufacture of arms for various warlords in China. This collection contains business correspondence and reports for prospective projects in China.

Dallas businessman, Everette Lee DeGolyer, Sr. (1886-1956), was respected and honored for his accomplishments in fields ranging from geophysical exploration to book collecting. Throughout his career, DeGolyer founded several major corporations including the Amerada Petroleum Corporation, the Geophysical Research Corporation and DeGolyer and MacNaughton. His collection provides rich documentation of his life and career as a geologist and businessman. The collection is divided into categories based on subject and includes biographical information, family correspondence, diaries, notebooks, genealogy, legal documents, awards, social and professional correspondence, articles, speeches, lecture materials, petroleum and energy subject files, scientific papers, maps, financial records, and photographs.

E.L. DeGolyer Jr. was the first director of DeGolyer Library. His papers include personal and railroad-related correspondence, railroad research, photographs, scrapbooks, and materials for Southern Methodist University business history courses he taught in the 1970s.

Helen Warren DeGolyer, wife of Everett L. DeGolyer Jr., was an eager bibliophile and actively passionate about both arts and politics. She travelled around the world and corresponded with close family and friends and former business associates of her father-in-law from his geology days. This collection focuses on the personal effects amassed from the activities she enjoyed most: travel, correspondence, the arts, and politics. The collection documents her involvement throughout the 1980s and 90s with women’s reproductive rights within the framework of the Republican Party.

Homer Lewis DeGolyer (1892-1963) had a varied career as soldier, historian and businessman. His collection represents the efforts of a man who held a wide variety of interests and access to a vast array of documents, records, newspapers and journals, and other items invaluable to the historical researcher. As a result, this collection contains little original material but consists primarily of copies of primary and secondary resources. The collection is divided into twelve major categories: personal papers; business papers relating to Southwest Microfilm, Inc.; Dallas history; La Reunion which includes material on La Reunion, Victor Considerant and French Socialism; notes of an unpublished manuscript on William Becknell; circus history; the history of geology and petroleum exploration; Texas history; extracts from Texas newspapers; U.S. history; a varied assortment of research materials; and other items (including the Charles Gates Sturtevant diary) which are cataloged separately. Chronological files of selected articles written about Texas and Dallas. DeGolyer transcribed numerous articles from various Dallas and Texas newspapers including the Dallas Morning News , Texas State Gazette and the Texas National Register and others. Topics general pertain to early history of settlers, transportation and the social and economic matters of Dallas. Among topics are the following: Peter's Colony, Indians, John Neely Bryan, J. B. Webb (memoirs), Farmers Branch, Dallas Pioneers, Dallas Railroads.

Nell Goodrich DeGolyer was a well known and respected civic leader and philanthropist. Her papers include manuscripts, letters, printed material, and photographs dealing with her childhood, schooling and married life with Everette Lee DeGolyer, Sr. Diaries document daily activities of Mrs. DeGolyer. The photographs and scrapbooks provide rich detail into the DeGolyer’s courtship, lifestyle, estate and gardens.

J. McCarty Dowell and Rosabel Greer Dowell lived in McKinney, Texas at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their twin boys, McCarty Jr. and Greer, attended Southern Methodist University before and after they served in the Navy during World War II. This collection includes the twins' letters to their mother from 1943-1946, Dowell and Greer family documents, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Elizabeth Kibbey was a schoolmate of Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, at National Cathedral School. Francis T. Evans, one of the earliest United States Marine Corps aviators, married Elizabeth Kibbey in 1917 and they had two sons. Elizabeth Kibbey Evans' World War II diaries, correspondence, and personal papers make up the bulk of the collection. Some of her papers also include mementos and correspondence about her visits with Ethel Roosevelt in the White House and Sagamore Hill. This collection also includes Kibbey and Evans family correspondence, photographs, manuscript notes, invitations, and greeting cards.