An extensive collection of materials on Henri
Castro and his colonists. Includes 12 of the 27 shipping lists recorded
by Henri Castro and copies of many of the Medina County Court records from
1844 to 1898. Named for the donors, Frank X. Vance and Dorothy Lobitz Vance
of Castroville.
Individual files - brief biographical information
Subject files
American Council of Catholic Women
Art: “Bringing them home
for Christmas”
Castroville: various articles about…
Castro
colony: names, ships, histories
Castroville: History
Court
Records
Correspondence: Mrs. Frank V. Vance; Publishers
County
histories
Fort Parker
Hass files: Miscellaneous articles;
notebook
Hondo Air Base
Indianola
Land Survey:
1832
Lutheran Church
Maps
Medina County Road
Law
Railroads
Recipes
Research : articles
Research:
Catholic sources
Research: France
Research: Huth
papers
Research: Jewish sources
Research: Rosenberg
Library
Research: State Archives
St. Louis Church
San
Antonio
Schiwetz, E.M.: Texas sources
Texas: Constitution,
committees, financial compensation
Record Book
1. Primary sources - Henry Castro, etc. - where
located
2. List - volumes - Texana in our collection
3.
Documents with original signatures, notes & instruments
4.
Index of H. E. Hass material
5. Pioneer families - Medina
County
Notebook 3
Handwritten notes of various court cases
Notebook 4 (handwritten)
Reminiscenses of a Texas Missionary -
Parisot
History of Catholic Church - Parisot (letter from Dubuis
about Castroville)
Pioneers in sack cloth -Castañeda
Pamphlets
of Lazarists - letters
Domenechs - Missionary
Adventure
Olmstead grocery
Personal narrative - John Russel
Bartlett
Texas in 1848 - Bracht (Viktor), translated from the
German by Charles Schmidt
History of the German Settlement in
Texas
Castro’s Colony - M.A. thesis, A. Goldthorp
State
Archives information
100th anniversary 1846-1946, firs
Presbyterian Church
Old and New San Fernando -
Torrente
Presidios de Texas - Chabot
Vote (DLV) on Mex.
attending Church from paper at Alamo
Southern Messenger - about
Odin, Dubuis
Vote (DLV) Witte Museum
James Paul
papers
Bishop Dubuis - L. V. Jacles
Notes from “The Anvil” in
Castroville
Bexar Transcripts
Blessing cornerstone
Davis
visit
Conversation at Witte Museum
“The Morning Star”, Texas
newspaper
Church bells in Castroville
Random notes, Houston
library
Medina Co. District Court files
Notebook 5
handwritten notes relating to Castroville taken
from various publications
Notebook 6
same as above; Certificates issued by J. M.
Carolon, Commissioner of Castro’s Colony
random notes: e.g.
report of horses stolen by Indians, short biographical notes of
settlers
Two-ring folder: 7
random notes from various sources, mainly
books: some typed, some handwritten
Unpublished novel manuscript: “Land of Promise”
120
photographs, mainly of buildings, nature scenes (6 of people: owner
of “Anvil Herald”, Carl Reidinger, Mrs. Carl Reidinger, Lucy
Maverick & Mrs. R.J. Noonan, Ruth Lawler)
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