DeGolyer Library Archival Collections: S

Sabine Royalty Corporation was a Texas business that invested in the exploration, drilling, and development of oil and gas properties. This collection contains Sabine Royalty Corporation’s minutes, financial information, annual reports, stock certificates, materials celebrating the company’s fiftieth anniversary, scrapbooks, and ephemera.

Annette Sanford (1929-2012) was a Texas author of short stories, book reviews, and paperback romances. After teaching high school English in Ganado, Texas for 25 years, she devoted the rest of her life to writing. Included in her papers are her published and unpublished works, journals, business files, correspondence, and photographs.

Sanger Brothers was a family retail business in Texas from the 1850s until it was sold in 1926. This collection of Sanger Brothers records includes real estate documents regarding the land owned by the Gouffe family behind the Sanger Brothers store in Dallas, property maps, financial documents, and several promotional items for the store. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Lillian Clark Sappington was an advertising manager for McGaugh Hosiery Mill and Airmaid Hosiery in Dallas, Texas from the early 1930s to 1946. Included in her collection are her marriage license to N.V. Sappington, personal correspondence, business correspondence, commission statements, Airmaid Hosiery promotional materials, photographs with captions for the company newsletter, personal photographs, and newspaper clippings. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Julius and George Schepps were brothers in Dallas, Texas known for their family bakery, dairy, and liquor businesses. This collection contains the transfer contract of the Dallas Baseball Club from Sol Dreyfuss to George Schepps (1938); charter of Greenville Baseball Enterprises of Texas (1949); photographs of the brothers; and photographs of Schepps Bakery. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

This collection includes genealogies, family photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings of the Schoellkopf family in Dallas, Texas. A large portion of the collection are Henry Coke III's letters to his future wife Anne Schoellkopf while they were engaged college students attending General Theological Seminary and Smith College. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Blackie Sherrod was a noted Texas sports writer for almost six decades, writing for several newspapers, including both the Dallas Times Herald and the Dallas Morning News . This collection contains his notes, drafts, and articles; correspondence; artwork; photographs; sports publications; press passes; and newspaper clippings.

Contains files on traction roads, photographs, and periodicals and newsletters on American traction and railroad lines.

Aldo Shults was a railroad dining car steward and union grievance representative. This collection contains correspondence regarding grievances, negotiations, and other union business; official releases and directories of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; memoranda, ledgers, receipts, menus, and other printed material concerning Shults' work on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Sivils was a drive-in restaurant with female carhops in West Dallas. At the height of the restaurant’s popularity, it was featured on the cover of Life magazine before it closed in 1967. These two boxes contain business correspondence, menus, matchbook covers, publicity, a 1940 Life magazine with Sivils carhop on cover, and an aluminum Sivils car tray. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Arthur Alvin Smith served as Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University and head of the Department of Economics from 1938 to 1950. From 1950 to 1970 he held the positions of Vice President and Economist at the First National Bank in Dallas. His papers chronicle his career as an economist, and include his speeches, articles, clippings, and an unpublished manuscript entitled “History of the Dollar.”

Charles Smith was an insurance investigator for the Texas City disaster that occurred on April 16-17, 1947. Many files in this collection document the aftermath of that disaster, as well as other insurance cases in the Southwest ranging from home fires to oil field lightning strikes. Materials include claims, appraisals, general correspondence, and photographs.

T.W. Snow Construction Company was founded by Theodore Wilbur Snow in Illinois in the late nineteenth century. The Chicago-based company built structures such as trestles, watering stations and coaling towers for the railroad industry, and held several patents for some of the equipment. This collection contains patents, technical drawings, business correspondence, photographs and illustrations for a publication. Files include information on Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad water treatment plant; Council Bluffs, Iowa lime soda treating plant; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad contracts; Lakeside Bridge and Steel Company at Table Rock, Nebraska; and various drawings for the Zephyr 9900

Southern Methodist University Press was founded in 1937, and in its seventy-eight-year history it specialized in the publication of works on the history and culture of the Southwest. The collection spans eighty-five years, with most of the material dating from the 1940s through the 1980s. Included in the collection is correspondence, book production and promotion materials such as review copy lists and mail-outs, manuscripts and book proofs, material from the Texas Folklore Society, and SMU Press financial records.

This collection contains records from the Southwest Review , a literary and artistic journal published at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1924. Included are correspondence with contributing authors, drafts of material for the journal, subscription information, promotional mail-outs, and financial records detailing costs for subscribing, advertising, and back issues. The dates for the material in the collection spread fairly evenly from the 1920s through the 1970s.

The papers of: Annie Lee Sprawls (1872-1931), Velma Fletcher Madden (1901-1993) and Martha Madden (1937-2019) document the lives and careers of three generations of educators from Louisiana and Texas. The bulk of the material centers on Martha Madden, who was a professor counselor, dean, author and lecturer who also served as the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, and worked as an environmental consultant. Materials comprise: scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, report cards and academic papers.

The collection illustrates the life and times of a United States Army soldier stationed in Europe in the latter half of World War II who worked in the office of a U.S. Army chaplain. Opie M. Stanfield was the son of rural Arkansas farmers. He served in the United States Army in England and France during 1944 and part of 1945. At the time of his discharge in 1945, Stanfield was a sergeant. It is apparent through the reading of his personal correspondence that he was bisexual or homosexual. The collection primarily consists of correspondence with family and friends as well as some photographs and ephemera. Correspondents include Loue Stanfield, Irene Campbell, Carolyn Hackman, Evelyn Toso, and Chaplain Albert A. Behnke.

This collections includes three Texas centennial cowboy hats, silk broadsides, pennants, and various official state fair pins and badges. Box 56X contains mostly print materials from the various events at the State Fair of Texas from its beginnings until the late 1960s. The last item is a sketch for a mural by noted Texas artist Tom Lea. George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

The Paul P. Steed, Jr. collection consists of correspondence, official documents, wills, petitions, edicts, dispatches, reports, expense records, ecclesiastical certificates, royal provisions, land grants, and other papers relating to the conquest and administration of Spanish America (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru) and the Philippines. Included are papers related to San Juan del Rio; Durango, Mexico land disputes (1659-1764); court records from Coahuila, Mexico (1814-1840); Viceroyalty letters from Peru (1603-1822); Pedro Sanchez de Olivera correspondence (1611-1678) related to Mexico and the Philippines; Central American colonial entrepreneur Juan Fermín de Aycinena collection (1761-1777); Quetzaltenango records (Guatemala, 1783-1785); Doña Ana de Arrollave y Beteta expedients (Guatemala, 1760-1784); Josef Insaurrandiaga papers (Nicaraugua, 1780s); estate inventory for conquistador of Mexico Gonzalo Cerezo (d. 1568 Spain); a Gregorio Moneo patent signed by King Ferdinand VI of Spain in 1747; and Martin Fernandes de Navarrete manuscripts (Villa de León, Spain, 1765-1844).

James J. Strang became the leader and "king" of a schismatic Mormon group based in Voree, Wisconsin, and Beaver Island, Michigan, often referred to as the Strangites, shortly after the death of Joseph Smith in 1844. The Strang collection contains letters (addressed primarily to Strang and his family members), essays by Strang and various members of his church, a tithing book and other documents regarding church business, miscellaneous printed matter, and correspondence involving his descendants.