Special Collections Division the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Vol. XV I* No. 2 * Fall 2002

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Thoughts on A.C. Greene
By Gerald D. Saxon

In this article, Saxon pays tribute to Greene, and recounts how he met the author in 1980. Saxon outlines Green's career beginning with his service in WWII, his life as a newspaper columnists and later editorial page editor, his owning a bookstore, driving a Coke truck in Dallas, graduate studies at UT-Austin and spending a year at J. Frank Dobie's Paisano Ranch.

Remembering A.C. Greene
By Christopher Ohan

Ohan, Greene's personal archivist and friend, remembers the author first from the papers donated to UTA's Special Collection and later as his friend and mentor. Ohan uses Green's own words to reveal the Texan's passion for this work, his views on the world and himself. 

NEH Awards Special Collections Second Grant
By Maggie Dwyer and Sally Gross

Dwyer and Gross report on the grant received by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve the W. D. Smith, Inc. Commercial Photography Collection housed in Special Collections. The grant will be used to re-house the Fort Worth photography firm's negatives from the 1950's. A selection of the photographs are included in the article.

Norman Alan Cohen Collection of Texas Postal Issues Texas Sesquicentennial Series
By Colin Toenjes

Toenjes, Photograph Curator for Special Collections, describes the recent acquisition of postal issues for the Texas Sesquicentennial by the division. The collection of materials relating to the issuance of the Texas Sesquicentennial stamp in 1986, includes a number of stamp collecting cachets with cancelled stamps of numerous designs as well as items related to the stamp's release. Toenjes also writes about Cohn's collecting interests and his passion for philately. 

Courthouse Mystery Solved
By Shirley R. Rodnitzky

In the last issue, Rodnitzky asked readers to help identify the courthouse pictured at the left. See who came up with the identification and how the mystery was solved.

Seek and Ye Shall Find an Aid
By Shirley R. Rodnitzky

In her final column prior to her retirement, Rodnitzky describes the Texas Confederate Gravesite Project Records in detail compiled by Jimmy Bryan, a former UTA graduate student. In addition she list, with a brief summary, the collections in the division that contain letters, diaries, and journals by soldiers whose home was Texas, or elsewhere in the Confederacy, during the Civil War, 1861-1865.

Seek and You Shall Find - Retirement!
By Sally Gross

Long time archivist and author of the feature column  "Seek and You Shall Find an Aid" in the Compass Rose retired on August 31, 2002. Gross, her supervisor in the division writes about the popular staff member recounting here accomplishments.

Special Collections Exhibition

The Third Coast: Mapping the Gulf of Mexico  and the Caribbean Sea Exhibition Sponsors Center for Greater Southwestern Studies  and the History of Cartography Special Collections, UTA Libraries Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Endowment October 4, 2002 - January 15, 2003 Special Collections * Sixth Floor * Central Library The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

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