The following items are currently held in Special Collections at Logan Library.

To access these materials, please contact Sara Schmidt, the Special Collections/Reference Librarian.

Currently access is restricted to appointments only.


The J. Frank Dobie Collection


SERIES I: Art, Artifacts, and Photographs

Box B&W or Color Description Size
1 B/W Sketch, side view of Dobie by Tom Lea, 14x18, Dec. 1969, signed by Lea for Herbert Arbuckle 14x18
1 B/W Caricature of Dobie - by B. Matheus Whitehead  ("I have come to value liberated minds and the supreme good of life on Earth")  
1 color "Fighting Bull" print signed by Tom Lea  
1 color "White Horse with Dark Clouds" print signed by Tom Lea  
1 color "Trail Herd" print signed by Tom Lea  
1 color "The Hills of Mexico" print signed by Tom Lea  
1 B/W Cartoon by J.R. Williams about Dobie  ( horse, cowboy, and two indians figures - photocopy from UT Archives)  
1 B/W Poster w/ photo of Dobie & Tracks on the Land Editorial (matted)   
1 N/A Vinyl Record:  Spoken Arts:  An Informal Hour w/ J. Frank Dobie.  Stories of the Southwest; directed by Arthur Luce Klein; New Rochelle, NY, 1963  
1 N/A Vinyl Record; Westminster Spoken Arts:  An Informal Hour w/ J. Frank Dobie.  Stories of the Southwest; directed by Arthur Luce Klein; New York, NY, 1956  
1 N/A Vinyl Record; J. Frank Dobie tells "The Ghost Bull of the Mavericks" and other Tales."  Recorded in Austin, Sept. 1960; signed by Dobie; taped along the edges; record in excellent shape  
2 color Framed "Canon de Chelly"  
3 color Photo of Alamo; "Remember the Alamo" text, written by J. Frank Dobie, on back; from "See Your West" Program  
4 color Masterson C1:  "The Well that Ushered in the Vast Panhandle Oil and Gas Field in 1919"  Painted by Ben Carleton Mead for Pioneer Natural Gas Co., 1965  
5 N/A Trail Log.  May 1, 1919  
5 N/A "Come Hungry, Come Thirsty" Documentary:  Sam Houston State University; Program, Mailer, and fan  
5 N/A Southwester Yearbooks:  1907 and 1908  
5 N/A Celebrity Cookbook, [1957-1958]  
6 B/W Photo of Bertha and Frank Dobie looking at a book 8x10
6 B/W Photo Tom Lea & J. Frank Dobie with longhorns  11x14
6 B/W Sketch of" The Prayer "by Ben Mead  ( drawing from life)   3/6/1978  
6 B/W Sketch of "Silent Night…west Texas style"  by Ben Mead  signed & dated 5/14/1979  
6 B/W Sketch of Dobie in later years  -  side profile, dated 1953 by Tom Lea  
6 B/W Photo of Dobie in  U.T. Coop, 3.5x5 in., 10/1960 3.5x5
6 color Photo - Arbuckle and Henry Faulk in library (5x7 in.) 5x7
6 color Photo of Arbuckle, Kincaid, & Gomez at El Chico 6/ 1983 (los tres caballeros) 5x7
6 color Photo of Jeff Dykes " The Old Buckaroo" 1900-1989 3x5
6 color Photo of George Smyer playing guitar with Dobie 6x9
6 color Photo (to Cynthia from Uncle Ben, 1978)  3x4
6 blk & yellow Patriarch of Palo Duro by Ben Carlton Mead   5/14/1979  
6 B/W The longhorns limit page for the Rawhide Edition( portrait of Dobie & Tom Lea (signed by Tem Lea)  1988  
6 B/W Dobie is his later years  Suit and tie; COPY  
6 N/A Mini-book:  Frontier Tales of the White Mustang.  1979.  Signed by unknown individual  
6 N/A Mini-book:  J. Frank Dobie:  Biography  by Valentine J. Polska. 1989, with slipcover.  
6 N/A Mini-book:  J. Frank Dobie:  Biography  by Valentine J. Polska. 1989.  
6 color Photos (4) in collage of Tom Lea (older) and with Sitting Bull drawing and painting of young woman  3x5
6 color Illustrations (4) from "On the Open Range;" signed by Mead, 5-14-1979  
6 N/A Mini-book:  The James Boys' Loot.  By J. Frank Dobie, 1990. (2 copies; one is a pamphlet style)  
7 N/A Black framed 5X7 sketched side picture of Dobie?  Signed by Tom Lea (in pencil)  
8 N/A J. Frank Dobie's straw hat  
9 N/A Ben Mead's Hat  
Display B/W Photo of Ralph W. Yarborough for H. Arbuckle (fellow Dobie collector; 5 June 1982 in Austin TX)  
Display blk & gold Sketch of" Church of St. Agnus" by Ben Mead signed 5/14/1979  
Display B/W Photo of Tom Lea,  Dobie, &  Frank Hertzog ( right to left) 8x10
Display B/W Photo of J. Frank Dobie Southwestern University 1910 (matted)  
Display B/W Photo of Dobie in his studio  by book shelf and wood stove w/ black shiny boots 8x10
Display N/A Cane  
Display N/A Bison statue (says decorated study of Dobie) (presented to Ben Mead)  
Display N/A Glass Bottle (maybe whiskey) says Hiram Walker and Sons Limited  
Display N/A Orange, clay, glass water jug with strings on either side, colored spiral in the middle  
Display N/A Buffalo skinned chair  
Display N/A Wooden gourd scoop  
Display N/A Wooden mixing spoon  
Display N/A Dobie Hat (not in box) - grey  
Display N/A Can of Edgeworth ready-rubbed pipe tobacco  
Display N/A Cowbell (hung at "Paisano" Dobie retreat)  
Display N/A Black cowboy boots  
Display N/A Pipe, in display box, with a bag of tobacco  
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Revised: 31 May 2006