Special Collections Division the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Vol. XV * No. 2 * Fall  2001

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Special Collections Snags Two Grants
By Ann Hodges

The library has been successful in raising external funds in support of two projects to improve access to Special Collections materials. Hodges describes the two projects. The first, an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant, provides $3,839 to purchase supplies to rehouse a portion of the photographic negatives in the W. D. Smith, Inc. Commercial Photography Collections. Photographs from the collection are included. The second award is from the TexTreasures program of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission which awarded the division $20,000 to increase access to its holdings of oral history interviews with Tejano leaders. Photographs from the 

Special Collections Acquires L'Amerique Atlas
By Katherine R. Goodwin

An extraordinary seventeenth century atlas by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville, has recently been acquired by the division. Goodwin describes the atlas and its value to the collections at UTA. In addition, she relates the career of Sanson and his family as they came to dominate the map trade in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Libraries Reach Halfway Point in Endowment Campaign
By Gerald D. Saxon

The Endowment campaign is in response to the challenge that accompanied the 1998 donation of more than 900 maps of Texas and the Gulf Coast by Virginia Garrett of Fort Worth. The donation, the largest such collection in private hands at the time, stipulated that UTA guarantee the historic collection be processed, cataloged, enhanced, and the focus of public and academic programs. Saxon reports on the progress of the endowment campaign to raise the funds and, in the process, describes the assets that have made UTA a  leader in cartographic education.

Seek and You Shall Find
By Shirley R. Rodnitzky

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In this popular column, Rodnitzky describes the most recently processed collections available for research in the division. This time, she describes the Robert Hanks Brister Papers, 1890-1965; the C. A. (Ce Estus Adam) Sharp Papers, 1868-1954; the University of Texas at Arlington, Office of the President, 1954-1975 (in two separate collections); and the Ed Watson Papers, 1966-2001. The article, as usual, includes some intriguing photographs.

The Texas Electric Railway
By Gary Spurr

Through the courtesy of S. W. Johnson, the Texas Electric Railway Collection came to the division as a group of negatives largely taken in the late 1940s. Spurr describes the shots and notes that in the backgrounds are scenes of Dallas and other other Texas cities and locations. A sampling of the photographs are included in the article.

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