DeGolyer Library Archival Collections: T-V

Most of this collection consists of offprints. Highlights of the collection include a letter from John J. Abert to John James Audubon, an original lithograph from Audubon's Birds of America depicting the Texan Turtle Dove, and photographic prints.

A rancher, conservationist and bibliophile, Carter Taylor was born in Martinsburg, Missouri in 1890. Taylor served in France during World War I. After the war, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas with his wife Frances Yates Taylor to go into the cotton business. About 1919, Taylor inherited land in Baylor County, Texas and began a ranching career. He followed conservation practices with soil and water and improved the Hereford herd on his ranch, the C Lazy T. Taylor collected books on the southwest and also examples of barbed wire. The Carter Taylor Collection includes six detailed ranch notebooks with notations regarding cattle, horses, cotton, correspondence, maps, photographs, a Republic of Texas 1839 land grant, a State of Texas 1863 land grant, magazines, cattle brands and registries, and miscellaneous printed material.

The Technical Club of Dallas was formed in Dallas, Texas on June 2, 1919. This society of engineers was involved with the Kessler plan for Dallas City planning, helped to support the co-op plan at Southern Methodist University School of Engineering, and sponsored the Student Engineering Society at North Texas Agricultural College (which would later become University of Texas at Arlington). This collection contains minutes from 1919, copies of their publication The Technician from 1944-2009, financial statements, and membership directories.

The Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. is an organization devoted to furthering the development of girls and young women as productive citizens and individuals. The Dallas Girl Scout Council was established in 1920 and later merged with other area councils to become the Tejas Girl Scout Council. This collection consists of the correspondence of Mrs. Margaret Scruggs Caruth, one of the first Tejas Girl Scout Council members; minutes, financial records, printed materials, which include Girl Scout handbooks, training guides, camping guides, activity guides, and newsletters; photographic material; scrapbooks; and audio recordings.

Virgil Willard Teufel was a surveyor for Geophysical Service Inc. in the 1940s-1950s. His papers contain diaries, business correspondence, and surveys.

Lon Tinkle was a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Southern Methodist University, and book critic for the Dallas Morning News . He is best known for his book Thirteen Days to Glory , which became a film starring John Wayne in 1960. Tinkle’s papers include his manuscripts, correspondence with authors, and faculty papers.

An illustrated journal of a trip to North America (July-November 1860) written by an anonymous author. The author of this journal accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on the first tour of North America by a British heir to the throne. Texas, including San Antonio and Austin, is described in detail on p. 59-63. A photograph of the author precedes p. 71.

Orley Hosmer Truman was an inventor of a gravity meter for oil exploration. His scientific papers include his manuscripts, correspondence, technical drawings, and photographs regarding his work with the Lowell Observatory in Arizona and Humble Oil in Texas.

Phyllis Tucker was a women’s rights advocate, and leader in the Movement. She served as president of the Texas chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1980 and 1990, and was instrumental in the development of the Houston Area Women's Center, a women's shelter, and WIRES, a call center for abused women. Her papers comprise: ERA buttons, t-shirts, bumper stickers, and posters; National Organization for Women newspapers and newsletters from the Houston/Bay Area chapter, Texas chapter, and national level; printed papers and articles related to women’s rights issues and the ERA; and women's conferences and meeting materials.

Samuel Matthews Vauclain was a lifelong employee of the Baldwin Locomotive Works Company. He was a locomotive manufacturer, inventor, salesman, and international businessman. One of his many achievements was the invention of the compound locomotive in 1889. The collection contains business and personal notebooks, business correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, charts, and sketches. Approximately 90% of the collection concerns Vauclain's business career with the other 10% pertaining to his personal life. Of the business papers about half relate to Baldwin Locomotive Works' foreign affairs.

This collection includes Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr.'s 1896 engineering notes while a student at Central High School; 1904 diary while in Japan; 1904 diary on Japan and Australia; 1904 carbon copies of letters from Sam to his father about Japan; negatives and glass plate negatives of Hawaiian locomotives and Japan; photograph of Samuel Matthews Vauclain Sr.; photographs of Toboggan, New Mexico.; and a Jaffa Temple twenty year debenture bond dated 1929.

This collection contains materials related to the Veteran Feminists of America-Dallas Chapter and the 2010 conference "Pursuing Women's Rights at Home and Abroad." Honoree files consist of registration forms, biographical information, and papers written by noted feminists in Dallas. Also included in this collection are VHS tapes of chapter meetings and talks, papers on various women's issues from the "Work in Progress" series from Wellesley College, and printed materials from various women's organizations in Dallas.