The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956 Page: 272
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Register, Jacks and Stallions.
Papers pertaining to state owned jacks and stallions. Arranged in
numbered file packages from 1-290. Also contains register books and
a second numbered file from 2-290.
4 file drawers, about 10,000 pieces.
Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics, and History.
This department originated in 1875 as the Department of Insur-
ance, Statistics, and History and was reorganized under the above name
in 1887 when the Bureau of Agriculture was added to it. To Texas
historians this should be the most important department of the state
government, yet surprisingly little is known about it. With the crea-
tion of this department, the materials of Texas history, the archives
of the state and the republic, were given recognition. Most of the
spade work for the future writing of Texas history was done by this
department in the twenty years from 1887 to 1907. It was during this
period that men of such stature as V. O. King, C. W. Raines, and
E. W. Winkler worked to organize and classify the Texas archives
which were inherited from the State Department. It was during this
period that most of the indexing, classifying, and cataloguing were done
on the precious documents of Texas' past. The Department of Agri-
culture, Insurance, Statistics, and History printed thousands of heavy
file jackets, classified material, numbered the file jackets, and kept an
excellent set of indexes. The basic files for the archival material were
established at this time, and for hundreds of the documents, abstracts
of the contents were made and a workable calendar created. The
Nacogdoches Archives were received by the Department, numbered
and described, and arranged in proper archival organization. Mr. E.
W. Winkler, then History Clerk in the Department, made extensive
card catalogs of the files. Biennial reports were made describing the
work being done and the accession of new material. Newspaper files
were begun and early newspapers bound.
Had the work of this department been recognized and continued,
the Texas Archives would not be in the deplorable condition they are
in today. Unfortunately, during the past forty-odd years, most of the
work of the Department has been negated. The bulk of the index
cards has been thrown away, almost all of the file jackets have been
removed and separated from the material, and the indexes made use-
less by scattering and mixing the documents in the files.
Geological Survey. See Geological Survey, Texas.
Letters Sent, c. 188o-x9oo.
Unidentified letter press books.
10 letter press books, about 5000 pages.272
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956, periodical, 1956; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101162/m1/298/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.