East Texas Family Records, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1981 Page: 4
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East Texas Family Records Summer 1981
SMITH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILMf
By James Wilkins, Tyler, TX
One of the 1980 projects of the Jack T. Greer Memorial Fund Committee of the Smith
County Historical Society was the cataloging and microfilming of back issues of the
Troup BANNER and Tyler JOURNAL at the newspaper office in Troup.
A total of 28 rolls of film contain all the known copies of the two weekly papers
published by the Edwards family. The original mastercopywasstoredin a vault in
Dallas and copies have been placed in Tyler Public Library, Texas State Archives,
University of Texas at Austin Library, TIMES-BANNER office, and at the Archives of
the Smith County Historical Society, making 5 copies of this film available.
Other activities of the Greer Fund Committee include the gift of amicrofilm reader
to the Tyler Public Library and the funding of a full-time professional archivist
for two months work on the Society's archives holdings.
Below is a list showing dates of each microfilm roll. (Gaps appearing between
dates is due to water damage, resulting in a loss of some of theoriginal newspapers.)
BOX NUMBER NAME OF NEWSPAPER DATES
1 Tyler Journal May 8, 1925 - Dec 31, 1926
2 Tyler Journal Jan 2, 1927 - Dec 28, 1928
3 Tyler Journal Jan 4, 1929 - Dec 26, 1930
4 Tyler Journal Jan 2, 1931 - Dec 30, 1932
5 Tyler Journal Jan 6, 1933 - Dec 28, 1934
6 Tyler Journal Jan 4, 1935 - Dec 25, 1936
7 Tyler Journal Jan 1, 1937 - Dec 30, 1938
8 Troup Banner Sep 4, 1903 - Dec 22, 1905
9 Troup Banner Jan 5, 1906 - Dec 19, 1907
10 Troup Banner Jan 2, 1908 - Dec 23, 1909
11 Troup Banner Jan 6, 1910 - Dec 26, 1912
12 Troup Banner Jan 2, 1913 - Dec 30, 1915
13 Troup Banner Jan 6, 1916- Dec 26, 1918
14 Troup Banner Jan 2, 1919 - Dec 27, 1921
15 Troup Banner Jan 12 1922 - Dec 27, 1923
16 Troup Banner Jan 3, 1924 - Dec 27, 1925
17 Troup Banner Jan 14 1926 - Dec 29, 1927
18 Troup Banner Jan 5, 1928 - Dec 26, 1929
19 Troup Banner Jan 2, 1930 - Dec 31, 1931
20 Troup Banner Jan 7, 1932 - Dec 28, 1933
21 Troup Banner Jan 4, 1934 - Dec 26, 1935
22 Troup Banner Jan 2, 1936 - Dec 29, 1938
23 Troup Banner Jan 5, 1939 - Dec 31, 1939
24 Troup Banner Jan 6, 1955 - Dec 29, 1955
25 Troup Banner Jan 2, 1964 - Dec 28, 1966
26 Troup Banner Jan 5, 1967 - Dec 31, 1970
27 Troup Banner Jan 7, 1971 - Dec 31, 1974
28 Troup Banner Jan 9, 1975 - Dec 22, 1977
James Wilkins, Art Director for Finn Advertising Agency where he has been employed
25 years is a past president of the Smith County HistorieaZ Society. During the
past 20 years, he has been largely responsible for CHRONICLES, the Society's semiannual
magazine which has won several state and national awards.
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