Services Offered

• Microflim readers and one microfilm printer
• Microfiche readers and one microfiche printer
• lnternet access
• Interlibrary loan
• Film Rental
• Reference Assistance
• Census Forms (free) (limit of 20 each)

Hours of Operation

Local History Collection

Consists of materials on/about Tyler and Smith County, Texas. City directories, telephone books, previous city budgets, and books written by local authors.

The most popular titles in demand include:

• Smith County Chronicles
• Cemeteries of Smith County (5 vol. set)
• Smith County Marriages (1846 - 1899)
• Abstract District Court Minutes (1847-1857)
• Obituaries of Tyler, Texas Newspapers (1905-(1915)
• Smith County, Texas Marriage Records (1902-1905)
• Smith County Probate Records (l846 - 1880)
• Abstracts of obituaries mid-1982 thru 1992

Texana Collection

Consists of over 400 titles collected on/about the state of Texas. Some of the subjects represented are almanacs, histories, economics, biographies, architecture, flora & fauna, etc. Some of the more notable titles include:

• East Texas Historical Journal - 1963 - current
• New Handbook of Texas (6 vols)
• Handbook of Texas (1952) (2 vols + supplement)
• Texas Almanacs - 1857, 1939 thru 1993
• Papers of the Texas Revolution (10 vols), by John Jenkins
• Southwest Historical Quarterly: In Rare Books: Vol. 1 - 1897 thru Vol 60 April 1957; In Texana : Vol.61 July 1957 to current

Newspapers on Microfilm

• Troup Banner - September 1903 - December 1977 Texas
• Republican, Marshall, Texas - May 1849-June 1869
• Early Tyler Newspapers (these are not complete runs) 1859 - 1935
• Some County Newspapers (Ex: Grayson, Hood, Fannin)
• Tyler Courier-Times - March 1905- October 1995
• Tyler Morning Telegraph - September 1973, January 1984 - Current (The library is planning to purchase all previous issues of the TMT - the next year purchased will be 1983)

Tyler City Directories (Polk)

• In Rare Book case: 1882, 1887,1893, 1904,1910,1913,1918, 1923 thru 1925, 1927 thru 1930
• On Shelves: 1932 thru 1940, 1942, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960 thru 1963, 1965 thru 1969, 1971 thru 1989, 1991 thru 1995

Tyler Telephone Books

• In Rare Book case: 1920, 1922, 1920 thru 1921, 1924, 1927, 1953 thru 1959
• On Shelves: 1960 thru current

Kriss Kross Directories

• 1958, 1959 (A.K. Wagner & Co.)
• 1962 thru 1969 (Wagner & Cole)
• 1971 thru 1973 (Coles)
• 1974 thru 1988, 1993-94

Rare Book Case

Contains some 600 plus books and other materials that are no longer in print as well as materials written about Texas (A.C. Greene's Fifty Best Books) and the Tyler/Smith County area that were printed in limited numbers or difficult to locate.

• Tyler High School: 1929, 1937 thru 1940,1958, 1960
• John Tyler: 1965, 1968, 1971 thru 1974,1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984
• Robert E. Lee: 1959 thru 1965, 1971, 1974 thru 1976, 1980 thru 1982
• Tyler Jr. College: 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972 thru 1976

Some of the most retrieved items from the Rare Book case include:

• Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas Books on Camp Ford/Glover & Lawrence
• History of Tyler and Smith County, Texas Woldert
• Killough Massacre Moore
• Smith County Justice Ellsworth
• Tyler City Directories
• Yearbooks
• History of the Caddo Indians Glover, William

Census on Microfilm (Federal Decennial Census)

Other Selected Items on Microfilm

• Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served from Texas
• Texas Almanac 1857-66, 1868-73, 1904, 1910, 1911, 1914 (plus book copies)
• Some Texas Mortality Schedules
• Texas Marriages in Early Counties 1835-1880's
• Tax Rolls of Texas Counties (mostly East Texas) 1900 & prior.
• Index to Texas Births Records 1903-1976
• Index to Texas Death Records 1903-1973 on microfilm 1974-1996 on Fiche
• Voter Register of Texas 1867-1869