Oscar S. Gray Papers

Photographs, abstracts, business literature, biography, publications, memorabilia, and newspaper and article clippings. Important in the collection are abstracts tracing property on Division Street in Arlington, Texas, from the January 1858 original W. W. Warnell 320 acre survey through Middleton Tate Johnson and descendants, J. W. Ditto and heirs, J. A. Elliott, George Luttrell, and others to Oscar S. Gray. Other papers trace or pertain to the development of the O. S. Gray Nursery business on the Division Street property. Publications include: THE O.S. GRAY NURSERY catalog, n.d., published by Gray; NEW PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF PLANT NAMES, 1939/1950, published by Gray; and THE TEXAS NURSERYMAN, January 1972, with Gray on cover. The publications contain articles by or about Gray and the O.S. Gray Nursury.