This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Letters to Santa with gift requests across Texas towns
A collection of handwritten Christmas wishes from children in Stamford and Houston in 1973 requesting toys such as a peppermint stick, patrol cycle, seat car, guitar fireman truck, sleeping bag, baby items, building blocks, Nerf-Mobile, riding toy, plush pals, stove, ice box, record player, bicycles, pinball machine, and SSP race car addressed to Santa at the post office with family signatures and travel plans.
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Santa
Santa Claus
Brett Mathews
Stamford
Pa Pa
Grandma Bredthauer
Poppy
Nanny Hirscher