THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS LIBRARY

 

Col 7674

Reynolds Andricks Papers 

1935-1977

 

♦

 

Collection information

 

Physical description: 2 document boxes, 51 scrapbooks

Acquisition: Gift of Dee Brock, 1994

Processed by: Warren Stricker, 2004

 

♦

 

Table of contents

 

 

♦

 

Biographical note

 

Born in Temple, Texas in 1902, Reynolds Andricks moved to San Antonio as a boy, making it his home for the remainder of his life.  He attended the University of Texas where he obtained a degree in civil engineering.  In addition to his private sector work as an engineer, he served at various times in city government in the public works department, on the planning commission, and as acting city manager.

 

Andricks began one of his most significant associations in 1947 when he was named to the board of directors of the Fiesta San Jacinto Association, the organization that organized the annual spring celebration.  Soon after his election he proposed a new event, an illuminated night parade to be called “Fiesta Flambeau.”  First staged in 1948, the Flambeau was an immediate success, and Andricks continued as its director into the 1980s.  During that period he instituted a number of other popular innovations, including the selection of a “Miss Fiesta” and increased military involvement in Fiesta.  He expanded Fiesta’s reach by initiating exchanges with like civic celebrations in other cities, sending representatives of San Antonio to the Tournament of Roses in California, the Minneapolis Aquatennial, and other events around the country.

 

In addition to his unbroken stint as Flambeau director, Andricks also served at various times as Fiesta San Jacinto Association president and executive director.  Following the creation of the Fiesta San Antonio Commission in 1959 as the new policy body for Fiesta, Andricks continued to represent the renamed Festival San Jacinto, the sponsors of the Flambeau, until his death.

 

Andricks and his wife, Thelma Trafton Andricks, were the parents of a daughter.  After his wife’s death in 1977, Andricks married Ann Edge.  He died at his home in San Antonio in 1982.

 

 

Scope and content note

 

Representing 30 years of his close involvement in Fiesta San Antonio, the Reynolds Andricks papers consist of scrapbooks and photographs detailing the annual event.

 

Scrapbooks make up the bulk of the papers, beginning with a few volumes dating from years prior to Andricks’ official involvement with the organization of Fiesta.  With his election to the board of the Fiesta San Jacinto Association in 1947, the scrapbooks become more systematic, gathering clippings of local and out-of-town newspaper coverage of Fiesta planning and events, Fiesta-related advertisements and other printed items.  There are also items related to other events sponsored by the organization, and the appearance of San Antonio representatives at other festivals.  While there are no chronological gaps in the annual series of scrapbooks from 1947-1976, there appear to be some missing items for years in which more than one volume was compiled.  Several of the later volumes included envelopes containing loose clippings; these have been placed in folders and housed with the scrapbooks.  A smaller sequence of scrapbooks gathers letters and some printed items received by Andricks in the course of organizing and promoting Fiesta events.

 

Several albums of photographs, dating from 1953-1968, consist primarily of professionally produced publicity photos of Fiesta participants and events, and photos of San Antonio participants in parades in other cities.  The numerical sequence used on a number of these volumes indicates that several albums are missing, and there are gaps in the chronological sequence.  Photographs have been removed from the albums and rehoused in folders in their original order.

 

 

Location

 

 

Scrapbooks

 

SB-A 40 

Letters to Reynolds Andricks 1947-1953

SB-A 41

Letters to Reynolds Andricks 1953-1954

SB-A 42 

Letters to Reynolds Andricks 1954

SB-A 43

Letters to Reynolds Andricks 1954-1955

SB-A 44

Letters to Reynolds Andricks 1956

SB-C 26 

Fiesta Publicity for 1935

SB-C 28

1936 (unbound)

SB-C 27

Publicity-Newspaper clippings, Fiesta San Jacinto, 1939, 1940

 

1946

SB-C 29

1947 Fiesta, Volume I

SB-C 30

1947 Fiesta, Volume II

SB-A 39 

1947 Fiesta: Out of town clippings

SB-C 31

1948 Fiesta, Volume I

SB-C 32

1948 Fiesta, Volume II

SB-C 33 

1948 Fiesta, Volume 3, advertisements

SB-C 34 

1949 Fiesta, Volume I

SB-C 35 

1949 Fiesta, out of town clippings, local advertisements

SB-C 36

1950 Fiesta, Volume I

SB-C 37 

1951 Fiesta

SB-C 38

1952 Fiesta, Volume II

SB-C 39 

1953 Fiesta, Volume I

SB-C 40 

1953 Fiesta, Volume 2, Reynolds Andricks, President

SB-C 41

1954 Fiesta, Volume I, Reynolds Andricks, President

SB-C 42

1954 Fiesta, Volume II, Reynolds Andricks, President

SB-C 43 

1955 Fiesta, Volume I, Reynolds Andricks, Chairman of the Board

SB-C 44 

1955 Fiesta, Volume 2, Reynolds Andricks, Chairman of the Board

SB-C 45 

1956 Fiesta, Rudolph W. Richter, President

SB-C 46 

1956 Fiesta, Reynolds Andricks, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 47

1957 Fiesta, Rudolph W. Richter, President

SB-C 48

1957 Fiesta, Reynolds Andricks, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 49

1958 Fiesta, Reynolds Andricks, Executive Director, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 50 

1959 Fiesta, Reynolds Andricks, Executive Director, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 51

1959 Controversy

SB-C 52 

1960 Fiesta, Reynolds Andricks, Executive Secretary, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 53 

1961 Fiesta

SB-C 54

1962, Reynolds Andricks, Executive Secretary, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 55 

1963

SB-C 56 

1963, Reynolds Andricks, Executive Secretary, Director of the Fiesta Flambeau

SB-C 57

1964 Fiesta

SB-C 58 

1965 Fiesta (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 59

1966 Fiesta (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 60 

1967 Fiesta (includes 2 folders loose items)

SB-C 61

1968 Fiesta (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 62

1969 Fiesta

SB-C 63 

1970 Fiesta, Volume I (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 64

1971 Fiesta, Volume 1-2 (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 65

1972 Fiesta (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 66

1973 Fiesta, Volume II (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 67

1974 Fiesta, Volume I (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 68

1975 Fiesta, Volume II (includes folder loose clippings)

SB-C 69 

1976 Fiesta, Volume 1-2 (includes folder loose clippings, 1976-1977)

 

 

Box/Folder

 

 

 

Photograph albums

 

1/1-2 

Book 2: July 1953-April 1953

1/3-4 

Book 5: May 1953-April 1954

1/5-6

Book 10: April 1956

1/7-8 

Book 11: April 1956-May 1956

1/9-10

Book 16: 1957-April 1958

1/11-12 

Book 20: April 1960

2/13

Book 21: 1961

2/14-16

24 1962-1963

2/17-18

25 1963

2/19-20

1965

2/21-22 

1967-1968

2/23

Loose photographs, undated

 

Photograph: unidentified group, from photograph album 24: transferred to oversize documents