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•    Selected manuscript collections from the TCU Special Collections
  Thu, 19 Apr 2018
  

  You can find these collections and more on the TCU Special Collections website.

  William Jackson Hammond Papers

  Hammond taught history at TCU from 1929 to 1966. He became mayor of Fort Worth in 1937. The collection consists of items related to university and city affairs and includes correspondence, newspapers and newspaper clippings, course materials, writings, speeches, and documents from various clubs and associations.

  Joseph Warren Hays Papers

  Joseph Warren Hays was a pilot in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He served from January 1943 through November 1945. Hays flew missions over Europe in 1945 as a co-pilot of a B-24 Liberator with the 446th Bombardment Group. After the war, he returned to TCU to complete his degree in Economics. The collection includes a complete set of letters written by Joseph Warren Hays to his family while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

  Jarvis-Van Zandt Family Papers

  Includes legal documents, land titles, photographs, personal correspondence, news clippings, genealogy notes, and ephemera. The papers begin with correspondence from Ida Van Zandt Jarvis and James J. Jarvis. Subsequent accessions contain records pertaining to various family members including Daniel Beall Jarvis, Khleber Miller Van Zandt, and Ann Day McDermott. The papers do not include substantial information about Texas Christian University, although some correspondence and administrative materials related to Ida Van Zandt and her son Van Zandt Jarvis pertain to TCU students’ life at the turn of the century.

  Ruth Millett

  Correspondence, photographs, printed material, programs, invitations, announcements, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and newspaper slicks document Ruth Millett’s life and career as a newspaper columnist from 1927 through her retirement in 1967.

  Originally posted 2017-05-01 05:51:26.

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Spotlight

Celebration of Faculty Research & Creative Scholarship

During the month of April 2018, the Library is partnering with The Office of Sponsored Programs to showcase faculty journal articles, books, book chapters and multi-media published 2016-2018. Items are displayed in the Sumner Heritage Room and Reference Area.