United States Navy

Kenneth K. McCaleb was a newspaperman, writer, and World War II War Correspondent for the International News Service (INS). His papers include manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs. Also included are World War II artifacts and documents of Colonel James Williams Allison III.

This collection primarily consists of photographs taken by Lloyd Howard of the Texas City Disaster and its aftermath, and “day in the life” style photos of time spent training at the Ward Island Naval Air Technical Training Center. It provides a unique dichotomy into the first half of 1947 on the Texas gulf coast at both its most normal and most tragic.

Dr. Norman C. Delaney was professor at Del Mar College who wrote a book covering the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station.

Thomas Lloyd Goad was an active Corpus Christi luminary, businessman, academic, and man of many talents. He was a World War II veteran, the owner of Goad Cadillac, and helped create the Alumni Association for Corpus Christi State University before it was absorbed into the Texas A&M System. This collection covers much of his time in Texas before relocating to Virginia in the early 1990’s.

Collection mostly consisting of photographs from very early 1900s to 1980s from the life and times of the Corpus Christi Talbert family.