Marion Day Mullins Collection
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection includes postcards of Texas courthouses. Some are actual photo postcards and others are artist renderings. Most are blank but a small number are written and addressed to Mr. Ben Hearne. Two are addressed to Rebecca W. Smith.
Dates
- 1909-1945 and undated
Creator
- Mullins, Marion Day, (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Ms. Mullins was a noted genealogist-historian and researcher. In 1927 she earned both bachelor's and master's degrees and a teaching certificate from TCU. Her longtime friend Rebecca Smith Lee established two TCU scholarships in her name.
Summary Biography
Ms. Mullins was a noted genealogist-historian and researcher. In 1927 she earned both bachelor's and master's degrees and a teaching certificate from TCU. Her longtime friend Rebecca Smith Lee established two TCU scholarships in her name.
Extent
0.50 Linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection includes postcards of Texas courthouses. Some are actual photo postcards and others are artist renderings. Most are blank but a small number are written and addressed to Mr. Ben Hearne. Two are addressed to Rebecca W. Smith.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by county seat.
Physical Location
Vault BF 2
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Marion Day Mullins.
Separated Materials
Portrait of a Girl by Murray Bewley TCU permanent art collection number 467.85 MCB Library Special Collections inventory number 35 Located in Special Collections room 3133
- Courthouses -- Texas -- Pictorial works Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hearne, Ben
- Lee, Rebecca Smith,
- Photographic postcards Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Picture postcards Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Texas -- Historic buildings Subject Source: {:aat=>"Art & Architecture Thesaurus", :cash=>"Canadian Subject Headings", :gmgpc=>"TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms", :ingest=>"Unspecified ingested source", :lcgft=>"Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms", :lcsh=>"Library of Congress Subject Headings", :lcshac=>"Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings", :local=>"Local sources", :mesh=>"Medical Subject Headings", :nal=>"National Agricultural Library subject headings", :ram=>"Répertoire d'autorités RAMEAU", :rbgenr=>"Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing", :rvm=>"Répertoire de vedettes-matière", :tgn=>"Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names"}
- Texas Christian University -- Alumni and Alumnae Subject Source: {:aat=>"Art & Architecture Thesaurus", :cash=>"Canadian Subject Headings", :gmgpc=>"TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms", :ingest=>"Unspecified ingested source", :lcgft=>"Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms", :lcsh=>"Library of Congress Subject Headings", :lcshac=>"Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings", :local=>"Local sources", :mesh=>"Medical Subject Headings", :nal=>"National Agricultural Library subject headings", :ram=>"Répertoire d'autorités RAMEAU", :rbgenr=>"Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing", :rvm=>"Répertoire de vedettes-matière", :tgn=>"Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names"}
Source
- Mullins, Marion Day, (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Marion Day Mullins Texas Postcard Collection
- Author
- Compiled by Lisa Peña
- Date
- 2014
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library Repository
TCU Box 298400
2800 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001
Fort Worth Texas 76129
(817) 257-4566
(817) 257-7282 (Fax)
LibSpecialCollections@tcu.edu
