VERTICAL FILES

• Biographies
  
• Subject Headings
  
• Cemeteries
  
• Obituaries
  
• Photographs and Negatives
  
• School Census Data Sheets (Students' names, addresses, parents, siblings, etc.) 1933, 1948-1970
  

• County, Community, Texas, and General Histories
  
• Handbook of Texas and other reference books
  
• Family Histories - Book form
  
• South Texas Genealogy & Historical Society Quarterlies and Index - 1966-1985 (Gonzales)
  
• Surname Index from Gonzales Inquirer Newspaper - 1853/4-1905
  
• Plum Creek Almanac (Caldwell Co.) - 1984-1997 (not inclusive)
  
• Cemetery Records Books - Gonzales, Caldwell, and Lavaca Counties
  
• Hotel Registers - Bound and Indexed
  
• Gonzales City Minutes with Index - 1847-1881
  
• Various periodicals and publications
  

• Gonzales County Land Grants & Patents - 1838-1839, transcribed & indexed
  
• Gonzales County Commissioners' Court Minutes - 1839-1857
  
• Gonzales County Probates and Index books A & B - 1830-1904
  
• Marriage Licenses and Applications - 1829-1994
  
• Tax Rolls - Real Estate - 1925-1995
  
• Tax Inventories of Real and Personal Property - 1939-1982 (not inclusive)
  
• Poll Tax Lists - 1919-1969
  
• Voter Lists - 1970-1995
  
• Criminal and Civil Court Records/Documents - JP, County, & District - 1847-1979
  
• Brands and Marks - 1830-1971
  
• Naturalization Papers - 1887-1924 (not inclusive)
  
• Professional Registers - Teachers, Doctors, Chiropractors, Medical - 1988-1968 (not inclusive)
  
• Lunacy Minutes - 1907-1913, 1915-1916
  
• Inquest Records - 1923-1983
  
• Sheriff's Register of Prisoners - 1893-1963
  
• Gonzales County District Court Minute Book #1 1834-1835, transcribed w/index
  
• Gonzales County Probate Docket 1876-1896 with index
  
• Gonzales County Probate Minute Book "B" Supplement 1844-1859 with index
  
• Gonzales County District Court Execution Book 1839-1841 with index
  
• Gonzales County Probate Fee Book "A" 1834-1836 with index
  
• Gonzales County Probate Fee Book 1845-1846 with index
  
• Gonzales County District Court Civil Docket Apr 1841-Apr 1853 with index
  
• Gonzales County District Court Minute Book 1845-1846 with index
  
• Gonzales County District Court Fee Book 1835-1855 with index.
  

• Jahnke, Emma & Mary
  
• Davis, B. Duncan-Reuter, Carl
  
• Johnson, J.M.-Ledbetter, I.A.
  
• Holmes, Vernon
  
• Mason, W.H.
  
• Parr, Andre D., Doctor
  
• Reese, Edward & Dorothy
  

• Abstracts and land deeds
  
• Academic record cards
  
• Advertisements
  
• Albums
  
• Announcements
  
• Appointments
  
• Architectural plans - buildings, homes, etc.
  
• Awards
  
• Briefs
  
• Broadsides, posters, etc. of political rallies, sales days, fairs, mass meetings, etc.
  
• Brochures
  
• Bulletins
  
• Business Records - journals, daybooks, catalogs, bills of lading, ledgers, accounting records, correspondence, etc.
  
• Bylaws
  
• Cables
  
• Calendars
  
• Cards
  
• Census rolls
  
• Charts
  
• Christmas cards
  
• Church records - minutes, rosters, anniversary programs, histories, etc., including those records of disbanded or abandoned Churches
  
• Circulars
  
• City records
  
• Class books
  
• Clippings
  
• Clubs, Lodges, Civic Groups, etc. Minutes, Committee Files, Financial Records
  
• Collections
  
• Committee Files
  
• Contracts
  
• Correspondence and letters
  
• Diaries/Journals
  
• Diplomas and certificates
  
• Directories - old city or county phone books, business directories
  
• Documents
  
• Drawings
  
• Family Bibles
  
• Field notes
  
• Files - personal, research, family
  
• Interviews
  
• Letter books
  
• Lists
  
• Maps - early maps of the county, Sanborn, County Soil Conservation Quadrants, Aerial, etc.
  
• Membership Rosters
  
• Memoirs
  
• Memorials
  
• Military records
  
• Militia lists
  
• Mortgages
  
• Music
  
• Muster rolls
  
• Newsletters
  
• Newspapers, books, and magazines
  
• Oral Histories
  
• Pay vouchers
  
• petitions
  
• Poll lists
  
• Postcards
  
• Recollections
  
• Registers
  
• School records
  
• Scrapbooks
  
• Speeches
  
• Surveys
  
• Tax returns
  
• Telegrams
  
• Testimonials
  
• Wills
  

• Register of School Children - 1877-1948
  
• School Census - 1898-1970
  
• County Superintendent of Schools Finance record - 1930-1938
  
• County Auditor School Record - 1929-1930
  
• Common Schools General Account - 1927-1931
  
• School Board Minutes - 1916-1942
  
• School Finance record - 1967-1978
  
• School Field Notes Vol. I & II - 1916-1978
  
• Teacher Certificate Register - 1895-1951
  
• Teacher's Institute Minutes - 1906
  
• Teacher Retirement Finance Record - 1937-1975
  
• School Financial Records of Trustees & Teachers - 1930-1931, 1934-1967