Audio Visual Collection | SHSU Special Collections & University Archives

By Trent Shotwell

Collection Overview

Title: Audio Visual Collection

Extent: 37.0 Items

Arrangement: The collection consists of audiocassettes that contain oral histories, poetry readings, radio broadcasts, music, and recorded lectures. The audiocassettes are arranged by subject. The audiocassettes are located in SHSU Special Collection’s file cabinets. Several audiocassettes in this collection have preservation issues, please contact SHSU Special Collections for access.

Subjects: Huntsville (Tex.) - History, Music, Oral history., Poetry, Sam Houston State University, Walker County (Tex.)

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Thomason Audio Visual Collection contains 41 individual audiocassette recordings. These audiocassette recordings include oral history interviews of several Huntsville and Walker County residents. The oral history interviews were recorded by Paul Culp, Charles Dwyer, and Dr. Gerald Holder. The collection also includes poetry readings, music, and radio broadcasts that concern Texas and past employees of Sam Houston State University.

Subject/Index Terms

Huntsville (Tex.) - History
Music
Oral history.
Poetry
Sam Houston State University
Walker County (Tex.)

Administrative Information

Repository: SHSU Special Collections & University Archives

Use Restrictions:

The materials represented in this finding aid have been made available for research, teaching and private use. For these purposes, you may reproduce (print, make photocopies, or download) these items without prior permission on the condition that you provide proper attribution of the source in all copies.

Please contact the Newton Gresham Library's Special Collections and University Archives department to request permissions to reproduce materials for any other purpose, or to obtain information regarding the copyright status of a particular digital image, text, audio or video recording.

Preferred Citation: Thomason Audio Visual Collection. Thomason Special Collections, Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Box and Folder Listing

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Series 1

Item 1: Grace Longino Cox Interview, 1993 October 26, 1994 February 9: Audiocassette Oral History recording by Paul Culp
Item 2: Winifred Longino Springfield, Grace Longino Cox, 1992: Audiocassette Oral History recording by Paul Culp
Item 3: Varniski, Alice, undated: Audiocassette Oral History recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 4: Vera McGlathery Moreley, 1982 December 4: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Charles Dwyer, Thomason Room Librarian.
Item 5: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sellers Part 1 and 2, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 6: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sellers Part 4, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 7: Saturday Night at the Shamrock, 1986: Audiocassette recording. Texas only nation-wide broadcast
Item 8: Dr. Janet Piper Reading Her Poetry, undated: Audiocassette concerning the New Deal, Evictions, Arrests, and other Running Stories. Honor and Humiliation, Two Women. Poor quality
Item 9: Dr. Janet Piper Reading Her Poetry, undated: Audiocassette recording. Songs of Eve McKleish - What Green Tree Said
Item 10: Dr. Janet Piper Reading Antiphony [1 of 3], undated: Audiocassette recording. Side 1 - The Commitment through JB, Side 2 - Strange Gods in Greece, Signature for Tempo to End. Extra Copy
Item 11: Dr. Janet Piper Reading Antiphony [2 of 3], undated: Audiocassette recording. Side 1 - Beginning to Closing Rose, Side 2 - Onlie Begettor to the Treason Crime. Extra Copy
Item 12: Dr. Janet Piper Reading Antiphony [3 of 3], undated: Audiocassette recording. Side 1 - Reflections on Immorality to Completion, Side 2 - Postscript to Omitted Poems. Extra Copy
Item 13: Dr. Janet Piper Interview, 1995 October 10: Audiocassette Oral History recording by Paul Culp
Item 14: Sue Thomason Noordberg & M.M. Buford, 1995 September 5: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Charles Dwyer, Thomason Room Librarian.
Item 15: Sue Thomason Noordberg & M.M. Buford, 1995 September 12: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Charles Dwyer, Thomason Room Librarian.
Item 16: Sue Thomason Noordberg & M.M. Buford, 1985 August 8: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Charles Dwyer, Thomason Room Librarian. SHNI, SHSTC, Sue Thomason Noordberg's travels and teaching experiences.
Item 17: Sue Thomason Noordberg & M.M. Buford, 1985 August 13: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Charles Dwyer, Thomason Room Librarian.
Item 18: Leadbelly - LC Recordings, undated: Audiocassette recording. 1 - Shorty George, 2 - Dallas and Fort Worth Blues
Item 19: Mary Estill, 1976 January 16: Audiocassette Oral History recording by Dr. Stewart Allen
Item 20: Houston for the People, undated: Audiocassette recording
Item 21: Elmina, TX Part 1 and 2, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 22: Robert Hightower Part 1 and 2, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 23: Robert Hightower Part 3 and 4, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 24: Goree McGlothen No. 1, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 25: Goree McGlothen - Trip to Tuskegee, Alabama, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 26: Goree Hightower Part 1, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 27: Goree Hightower Part 2, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 28: Goree Hightower Part 3, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 29: Major T.J. Goree Symposium Copy 1, 1986 April 17: Audiocassette recording of Dr. Donald Walker by Paul Culp
Item 30: Major T.J. Goree Symposium Copy 2, 1986 April 17: Audiocassette recording of Dr. Donald Walker by Paul Culp
Item 31: President-Emeritus Elliot T. Bowers Copy 1, 1997 June 9: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Bess Osburn and Paul Culp
Item 32: President-Emeritus Elliot T. Bowers Copy 2, 1997 June 9: Audiocassette recording by Dr. Bess Osburn and Paul Culp
Item 33: Danville, TX and New Waverly, TX, undated: Audiocassette recording by Gerald Holder, PH.D
Item 34: Actual Voices Famous Voices in Texas History, 1986: Audiocassette recording
Item 35: Paul Culp on John W. Thomason, 2001 October 11: Audiocassette recording Paul Culp on John W. Thomason at meeting of the Daughters of the Republic or Texas, Carriage Inn, Huntsville, TX
Item 36: Wilson, Logan, undated: Audiocassette recording
Item 37: Gresham, undated: Audiocassette recording

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