Blucher: A Family, a Legacy, and a Research Resource at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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dc.contributor.authorKreneck, Thomas H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T18:53:00Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T18:53:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-31
dc.descriptionThis publication was accomplished as a collaborative effort among the author, the Special Collections & Archives Department of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science.
dc.description.abstractThis publication explains concisely who the Corpus Christi, Texas Blucher family was, outlines some of its most important imprints on the city, highlights its mark on surveying, and speaks to the family’s broader donations to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, including establishment of the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science. It especially reveals the development of the massive body of research materials that bears their name and is housed within the Mary and Jeff Bell Library’s Special Collections & Archives. It narrates the story of the Blucher collection, its proper title being the Charles F.H. von Blucher Family Papers (Blucher Family Papers) and the series within those holdings called the Conrad Blucher Surveying Collection (CBSC). This work chronicles the entire collection’s growth, management, and use from the first paper donations by the family to the university in the 1980s until that institution made substantial portions of the CBSC accessible to researchers on the Internet. This monograph, with captioned illustrations, aims to foster further study of this important family. It also enhances continued use of these materials by the variety of audiences they address. By presenting an archival history of the massive Blucher Family Papers and the CBSC, it likewise will assist curators in doing their own work handling similar large family papers and/or surveying records.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/90253
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouth Texas Imprintsen_US
dc.subjectBlucher Family History
dc.subjectSurveying in Texas
dc.subjectSurveying records
dc.subjectArchives and archival practice
dc.subjectCorpus Christi, Texas history
dc.subjectCharles F. H. von Blucher Family Papers
dc.subjectConrad M. Blucher
dc.subjectConrad Blucher
dc.subjectSurveying Collection
dc.subjectFelix A. Blucher
dc.subjectMaria Augusta Imme von Blucher
dc.subjectGerman Texans Immigration to Texas
dc.subjectGerman-American Acculturation
dc.subjectTexas History Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science
dc.subjectThomas H. Kreneck
dc.subjectLori Atkins
dc.subjectAmanda Kowalski
dc.titleBlucher: A Family, a Legacy, and a Research Resource at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
dc.titleBlucher: A Family, a Legacy, and a Research Resource at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
dc.typeBooken_US

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