Category Archives: Baylor at Independence

Research Ready: January 2013

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Amanda Norman

Each month, we post a processing update to notify our readers about the latest collections that have finding aids online and are primed for research. As we did in December, we have a few special entries from the Archival Collections … Continue reading →

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Research Ready: December 2012

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Amanda Norman

Each month, we post a processing update to notify our readers about the latest collections that have finding aids online and are primed for research. This month we have a few special entries from the Archival Collections and Museums class … Continue reading →

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An Independence Commencement: How Baylor's Earliest Graduates Celebrated

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Amanda Norman

We introduced Margaret Hall Hicks, a Baylor alumna from the 1870s, this summer in our “Looking Back at Baylor: Simple Pleasures in Independence” post. We encourage you to read it for a view of Christmas celebrations in Baylor’s early years. … Continue reading →

Posted in Baptist history, Baylor at Independence, Baylor Female College, Baylor University, Carroll Chapel, Commencement, Margaret Hall Hicks, That Good Old Baylor Line, Waco, Washington County Texas | Leave a comment

Research Ready: October 2012

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Amanda Norman

Each month, we post a processing update to notify our readers about the latest collections that have finding aids online and are primed for research. Here’s the scoop for October: Bolt Family Homestead and Legion Valley Indian Massacre Collection, 1985: … Continue reading →

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The Baylor Bear Facts: Fun and Games at The Texas Collection

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Amanda Norman

The Texas Collection’s holdings include many weighty academic tomes and important archival records. Even the paintings that hang in our reading room tend to the serious side—neither Samuel Palmer Brooks nor Pat Neff look amused in their portraits. But we … Continue reading →

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Research Ready: July 2012

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Amanda Norman

Each month, we post a processing update to notify our readers about the latest collections that have finding aids online and are primed for research. Here’s the scoop for July: Andrew Joseph (A.J.) Armstrong papers: The Andrew Joseph Armstrong papers … Continue reading →

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Looking Back at Baylor: Simple Pleasures in Independence

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Amanda Norman

This piece by former Texas Collection director Kent Keeth originally was published in The Baylor Line in November 1978, then was reprinted in Looking Back at Baylor (1985), a collection of Keeth and Harry Marsh’s historical columns for the Line. … Continue reading →

Posted in Archives, Baylor at Independence, Baylor Female College, Baylor Line Camp, Baylor University, Christmas, Independence columns, Kent Keeth, Looking Back at Baylor, Margaret Hall Hicks, Rufus Burleson, San Jacinto Day, The Baylor Line, William Carey Crane | 5 Comments