Special Collections Division the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Vol. XII * No. 1& 2 * Fall & Spring '98

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Fall and Spring 1998

Fall 1998

The W. D. Smith, Inc. Commercial Photography Collection
    By Gerald D. Saxon

Fort Worth flood of 1949.

The Division announces the acquisition of the W. D. Smith, Inc. Commercial Photography Collection of negatives dating from the early 1940s through 1989. The city of Fort worth's leading commercial photography firm during the last half of this century donated approximately 190,000 negatives documenting the growth and development of the Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and the North Texas region. The article relates the career of Smith and displays a number of historic Fort Worth photos.

 

 

Friends Celebrate First Decade
    By Gerald D. Saxon

Director of Libraries Tom Wilding and Friends' President Lannie Forbes.

A report of the Tenth Year Celebration of the Friends of UTA Libraries. The celebration focussed on the past, present, and future of the Friends. A number of the previus presidents were in attendance.

 

 

 

 

Joys of Processing: Finding Paper Jewels
    By Maritza Arrigunaga

Miguel Hidalgo.

Arrigunaga reveals the treasures found in a recently acquired Mexican collection. Of special interest are two folders containing thirty-three items from the Bishopic of Valladolid, Michoacán, Mexico, dating from 1778 to 1845. Valladolid had been the cradle of the Mexican independence movement and a large number of the province's clery became involved. The movement progressed from the first plot in 1794 to the Dolores popular insurgency in 1810 led by Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.  The article reviews the history of the events as well as a description of the materials.

 

 

 

Rangers and UTA Connect for Summer Program
by Katherine R. Goodwin

Student reading an 1836 newspaper about the fall of the Alamo.

Every summer, a select group of students from the Fort Worth Independent School District who are participants of the Texas Rangers Summer Academy visit Special Collections to explore the division and its treasures. These young "Texas heroes" are met by a descendant of the Texas Revolution dressed in period dress and begin a three-hour morning of interactive sessions with teachers and Special Collections staff members. Goodwin recounts the fun and pleasure of students in the program.

 

 

Spring 1998

Friends Celebrate Ten Year Anniversary
By Gerald D. Saxon

The Friends of UTA Libraries organization is now ten years old and the associate director for Special Collections Gerald Saxon, looks at the founding of the organization and the success it has atained in the last decade. Saxon also describes some of the more memorable programs and includes a list of past presidents.

A Decade of Friends' Programs to Tickle Your Fancy
By Jennifer Gates

In the ten years that the Friends of the UTA Libraries have existed, the organization has sponsored programs to appeal to people with diverse tastes and interests. We thought it would be fun and informative to list all of the Friends’ programs sponsored during the Friends’ first decade. Spring 1998.

 Adena de Zavala: Protector of Texas' Past
By Diana Mays

The article by School Teacher and Archivist, Diana Mays, focuses on one of the smaller collections held in Special Collections. Mays describes the papers of a phenomenal woman who spent most of her life working to preserve Texas History.

 

Notes
First in a new Lecture Series Announced

The UTA Libraries' Special Collections Division and the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography announce the First Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. The Lecture, titled, Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier will be held of Friday, October 2, 1998, in the Sixth Floor Parlor of UTA's Central Library. Distinguished scholors participating in this first lecture include Dr. Richard Francaviglia of UTA, Dr. W. Michael Mathes, with the Sutro Collection in California, Dr. Dennis Reinhartz of UTA, Dr. Paula Rebert of DeKalb, Illinois, Dr. Gerald D. Saxon also of UTA, and Dr. Ralph Ehrenberg, Chief, map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.  For more information, please contact Ms. Kit Goodwin by phone: (817) 272-3393, or by fax (817) 272-3360, or by email at goodwin@uta.edu.

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