Tyrrell Historical Library Digital Collections
Tyrrell Historical Library Digital Collections
This collection consists of 3,677 photographs that pertain to the history of the greater Beaumont area. The images can be categorized into many general subject related themes that include such things as: street scenes, aerial views, agriculture, churches, schools, libraries, restaurants, hotels, banks, businesses, commerce and …
Herbert Herman Fiedler was the personal chauffer of Mrs. Frances Ann Lutcher of Orange, Texas. The Lutcher family owned vast tracks of timber in and around the Orange area and ran the Lutcher Moore Lumber Company. As prominent citizens of Orange, the Lutcher family owned two Pierce and Arrow touring automobiles and traveled …
This collection consist of photographs from 1902 to 1904 related to the Hogg-Swayne tract, Flores gusher, and Batson oil field, all three once a part of Spindletop. Other images include an oil field fire at Spindletop that occurred between September 12 and 14 of 1902. In addition, there are a few images for the 1940s that show …
This collection consists of approximately 994 photographs from the Fire Museum of Texas, which opened in 1984 in Beaumont, documenting firefighting in Southeast Texas from 1856 to 1993, with heavy emphasis on the first half of the twentieth century. The Fire Department of Beaumont was established in 1881 and images in this collection …
This collection consists of 149 photographs from the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce Records. The Beaumont Chamber of Commerce was formed on January 22, 1903, during the Spindletop Oil Boom era, with 165 individuals interested in civic projects, city promotion, and economic development projects. Most of the photographs in this …
This collection of postcards was compiled by a local collector by the name of Don Kelly. These postcards consist of views and images of Beaumont and Southeast Texas for the period from the 1890s to the late 1980s. The topics of these images include aerial views, agriculture, business and shopping, homes, hospitals, hotels, the Neches …
The John Dollinger Jr. Inc. Records cover the time period from August of 1902 to 1995. These records are arranged in the following record series order: 50th anniversary celebration activities in 1952, job photographs related to company project files, minutes of Board of Directors and stock holders, early photographs of products …
The John H. Walker Papers represent a unique and varied collection focused primarily on the history and people of the City of Beaumont and the outlying rural area situated in Jefferson and Orange Counties, Texas. Contained within this collection is a wealth of information captured in photographic images. The photograph section of …
This small collection includes among other things fifty-six photographs of Dodge trucks sold by the Jackson Motor Company in Beaumont, Texas, with logos of local area businesses painted on them. Some of the businesses displayed on the trucks are for bakeries, coffee companies, feed companies, the fire department, florists, funeral …
The Tyrrell Historical Library is a unique library in that it collects and preserves the history of the greater Beaumont area, which includes the history of southeast Texas. The library as a historical research repository was established in 1975. Restoration of the library building began in 1989 and was completed in July of 1990. The local history archives section of the library consists of personal papers, business, civic, fraternal, and city records. The collections capture a wide array of material including family letters, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, business reports, minutes and correspondence, along with thousands of photographs.
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