Finding Guide

La Retama Club, Collection No. E1

Box 1

1.01          Minutes Book 1910-1911

1.02          Minutes Book 1911-1912

1.03          Minutes Book 1914-1915

1.04          Minutes Book 1919-1921

1.05          Minutes Book 1921-1922

Box 2

2.01          Minutes Book 1922-1925

2.02          Minutes Book 1925-1928

2.03          Minutes Book 1928-1929

2.04          Minutes Book 1929-1930

2.05          Minutes Book 1930-1931

2.06          Minutes Book 1931-1932

2.07          Minutes Book 1932-1933

Box 6      (part of Mary Carroll collection (B9 Box 8)

6.01          Scrapbook La Retama Library and La Retama Club Vol. 1 (ca. early 1900’s – 1919)

6.02          Scrapbook La Retama Library and La Retama Club Vol. II (ca. 1917-1920’s)

6.03          Scrapbook La Retama Club and Library (1910 and early 1920’s)

6.04          Scrapbook La Retama Club and La Retama Library 1924-1929 (includes clippings added  

                     later from 1959 and 1963 – added by Mary Carroll)

6.05          Scrapbook La Retama Club and La Retama Library Vol. III (1929-1930)

6.06          Scrapbook La Retama Golden Anniversary Coffee May 4, 1959

6.07          Collection of La Retama Program Drafts 1922-1923

6.08          La Retama Histories (March 1955) and Petition for City Library (February 1, 1930)

Box 7

7.01         "Girls in Cadillac Cars” and “W. W. Jones House” – La Retama Library

7.02          Clippings Scrapbook 1915-1922

7.03          La Retama Scrapbook 1941-1952

Box 8

8.01          La Retama Club Brown Scrapbook (ca. 1920’s – 1970’s)

Box 9

9.01          Scrapbook La Retama Club and La Retama Library (ca. 1980 – 1985)

9.02          Scrapbook La Retama Club and La Retama Library (ca. 1985 – 1987)

Box 10

10.01        Scrapbook La Retama Club and La Retama Library (ca. 1987 – 1996)

Box 11

11.01      Resolutions and Reports

11.02      Correspondence to 1940

11.03      Correspondence 1949-1969

11.04      Correspondence 1970-present

11.05      Undated

11.06      Miscellaneous Performance paraphernalia

11.07      Club Constitutions Adopted October 9, 1907

11.08      Pamphlets, Newsletters, Etc. – April 21, 1928 and May 4, 1932

11.09      La Retama Club Report to Corpus Christi City Federation 1962

11.10      1963 Correspondence and 1906-1919 Club history from Mary Carroll

11.11      History of La Retama Club 1919-1927 (from minutes) by Emma Koepke

11.12      History of La Retama Club 1905-1985 by 1985 History Committee

11.13      Memorial to Nellie Blucher Derry and Club History by Nellie Blucher Derry

11.14      “A Mighty Library from Little Peanuts Grew” by Mrs. Joseph (Patty) Muellar, October 1975

11.15      A tribute to La Retama Club

11.16      Library Location Information 1909-1955

11.17      Documents regarding 1983-1984 new library, proposal, exist in Friends of the Library 

              Papers

11.18      Copy of City Ordinance #1889

11.19      Miscellaneous Library Pamphlets and information

11.20      Address to La Retama Club by Moxie Martin (3-21-1984)

11.21      Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs Newsletter and Convention Programs

11.22      Miscellaneous Corpus Christi Organizations’, pamphlets, information sheets

Box 12

12.01      La Retama study programs 1910-1911, 1911-1912

12.02      La Retama study programs 1912-1913, 1913-1914, 1914-1915

12.03      La Retama study programs 1915-1916, 1916-1917

12.04      La Retama study programs 1917-1918

12.05      La Retama study programs 1918-1919

Box 13

13.01      Programs 1920-1921, 1921-1922, 1922-1923

13.02      Programs 1924-1925, 1925-1926

13.03      Programs 1926-1927, 1927-1928, 1928-1929

13.04      Programs 1929-1930, 1930-1931, 1931-1932

13.05      Programs 1933

13.06      Programs 1934

Box 14

14.01      Programs 1935-1936

14.02      Programs 1936-1937

14.03      Programs 1937-1938

14.04      Programs1938-1939

14.05      Programs1939-1940, 1940-1941

Box 15

15.01      Programs 1941-1942, 1943-1944,1944-1945, 1945-1946

15.02      Programs 1946-1947, 1947-1948, 1948-1949

15.03      Programs 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1951-1952

15.04      Programs 1952-1953, 1953-1954

15.05      Programs 1954-1955, 1955-1956

15.06      Programs 1956-1957, 1957-1958

15.07      Programs 1958-1959, 1959-1960

Box 16

16.01      Programs 1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1963-1964

16.02      Programs 1964-1965, 1965-1966, 1966-1967

16.03      Programs 1967-1968, 1968-1969, 1969-1970

16.04      Programs 1970-1971, 1971-1972

16.05      Programs 1972-1973, 1973-1974

Box 17

17.01      Programs 1974-1975, 1975-1976

17.02      Programs 1976-1977, 1977-1978

17.03      Programs 1978-1979, 1979-1980

17.04      Programs 1980-1981, 1981-1982, 1982-1983, 1983-1984

17.05      Programs 1985-1986, 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 1991-1992

17.06      Programs 1993-1994, 1994-1995,1995-1996

Box 18

18.01      Corpus Christi Caller and Times Articles concerning 1955 move to new library on

                Mesquite Street

18.02      Corpus Christi Caller Articles regarding La Retama Members ca. 1931-1971

18.03      Newspaper articles 2 copies regarding library Art Collection named after Sarah and Julia

                Caldwell ca. 1968-1970

18.04      Newspaper article regarding City Council and Library Board Disagreement ca. 1968-1970

18.05      Corpus Christi Caller Times article regarding La Retama Club’s 75^th Anniversary April 6,

                1980

18.06      Newspaper articles: 1984 move to new Central Public Library on Comanche