The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 440
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The Association's genuine interest in the project is indicated
in Professor Webb's reply.
I am in receipt of your letter of September 17 relating to the collection
and filming of cattle brand books. It is my belief that both the Texas State
Historical Association and the University of Texas would be interested
in this project and can be of some assistance in making it possible, or
in carrying it out.
The Association is a sort of service organization which is in position
to give real assistance in administering such an undertaking. The Uni-
versity would certainly want to share the records, and if so would be ready
to defray a part of the expense. You will, of course, understand that I
can not be more specific in reference to either organization, but I do feel
that both the Association and the University would be willing to help in
collecting these records.
On investigating, I find that we do have a microfilm machine which
was purchased some years ago and is not too well adapted to making
large pages. There are much better machines now, and the University
should have one.
I would suggest as a starter that some outside organization might start
this by underwriting to some extent. With this as a base we could approach
the University for a commitment and possible assistance. The Association
would consider administering the work and in combination with the Uni-
versity can, I believe, do this on a more economical basis than any other
organization. The Association is only an agency and does not itself keep
any records or archives. Therefore service is all it can offer. It would
need to have money for the machine and field man and technician. The
University needs a machine, and it might be induced to buy one.
Again a wholly worthy historical project is faced with the
need for adequate financing. Perhaps the next Legislature may
be persuaded to finance the project. Those persons who have
the know how in matters of finance should advise with the
office and the Ways and Means Committee of the Association.
In the past ten years Sunshine Neely, in the office of the
Dean of the Graduate School, has become known to hundreds
of graduate students in history. She has also been a familiar
figure at the annual meetings of the Association. Some called
her "Dean" Neely, others spoke of her as the perfect telephone
voice, but all testified to her uniform helpfulness. For the
Association's office she was uniformly expert in furnishing bib-
liographies or biographies. She served faithfully year after
year as one of the judges in the Junior Historian Writing Con-
test.440
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