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Abstract This collection consists of Blanco Star School memorabilia gathered from alumni and records generated by reunions of former students. The Blanco Star School opened in 1922 as a two room building that served as a primary and middle school. The school operated until 1945 when the students began attending San Marcos and Kyle schools. Reunions for Blanco Star School began in 1982 when former teacher and principal, Audrey Jerles Herron, sought out alumni and former faculty. The final annual...

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Clara Marburg Kirk, was an American author married to a professor at Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University), Rudolf Kirk. This collection contains materials related to her book "Oliver Goldsmith" along with a small amount of personal papers.

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Digital images of photographs picturing Dan Garcia and Lyndon B. Johnson. Garcia was a student of Lyndon Johnson's during the time that he taught school in Cotulla, Texas. Images consists of Dan meeting with Johnson as well as images of Johnson's visit to Cotulla in 1966. Also includes a group portrait from 1928 of LBJ with some of the students he taught.

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Collection related to the life of Fred Richan and the history of the U.S. Fish Hatchery in San Marcos, Texas, as well as its relationship to Southwest Texas State University.

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Collection consists of one working manuscript version of a 1997 dissertation written by Patricia Louise Parker Thompson in pursuit of a doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin. That dissertation topic involves the speech writers that served Lyndon Johnson during his presidency in the United States, including Southwest Texas State University president Robert L. Hardesty.