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UTA Acquires Landmark Arlington, Texas, Photograph Collections
By Brenda S. McClurkin
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McClurkin describes the photograph collection of J. W. Dunlop, which includes over 1000 historic images of Arlington and its environs. The collection is believed to be the most comprehensive photograph collection of Arlington in existence and spans over one hundred years in time.
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This regular feature of the Compass Rose focuses on the archival and manuscript collections that have recently been processed by library staff and university graduate students. The new collections are open for research and have completed finding aids available. Two collections reviewed in this issue are the Clyde Walton Hill Papers and the Cosette Faust Newton Papers.
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The recently acquired collection, a donation from the Estate of Minnie Meacham Carter (1902-1996), includes more than forty record center boxes and cartons of material on the Meacham and Carter families. Mrs. Carter was the daughter of department store merchant and former Fort Worth major, Henry Clay Meacham and Margaret Bean Meacham, a pillar in the Junior Woman's Club, and the widow of Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher, art collector and philanthropist Amon G. Carter, Sr.
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Special Collections has recently taken delivery on four rare late eighteenth and early nineteenth century sea charts produced by the Spanish agency established to print charts and maps of their New World holding, the Dirección de Hidrografía. The maps are a significant addition to an important collection of materials focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Goodwin describes the four charts and expands on their importance to the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library's holdings.
Special Collections
Acquires Rosa Map of 1837
by Katherine
R. Goodwin
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In this article, Goodwin, Special Collection's Cartographic Archivist, describes the recent acquisition of the rare Rosa map and recounts its importance in the evolution of the map that accompanied the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Special Collections holds editions of all the pertinent maps relating to the treaty.
Garrett Lectures a Success!
by Sally Gross
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Gross, Coordinator of Special Collections, recounts the success of the Third Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography held in the UTA Central Library on October 4, 2002. The theme, "The Third Coast: Mapping of Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea" explored ways in which maps and their related imagery have depicted the environment, geography, peoples, habitat, and political realms of the region.
Collections Grow with Addition of
Garden Club Records
by Shirley R.
Rodnitzky
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Special Collections announces the acquisition of the records of the city's oldest club, the Arlington Garden Club. Organized in 1926, the members were motivated by interests in flowers and the need for social as well as civic organizations in Arlington. Rodnitzky highlights special projects and awards won by the organization over the years.
History from the Air: Documenting
the U.S. Forts on the 19th Century Texas Frontier
by Jack Graves
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Jack Graves, a non-traditional student, describes a recent independent studies class document on the U.S. military forts that were built on the north and central Texas frontier during 1849-1889. Graves, a capable photographer and pilot, used his talents to document from the air the current physical status of eight forts that make up the "Texas Forts Trail" designated by the Texas State Highway Department.
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Thoughts on A.C. Greene
By Gerald D. Saxon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Hollace Weiner authors a biographical sketch and description of the The Papers of Robert Hanks Brister, a Waco school superintendent during the Great Depression, in this timely article. Brister, a prolific writer and photographer, documented his student days at Decatur Baptist College, and his experiences as a Texas soldier during World War I, as well as expounding on issues facing educators during the first half of the twentieth century in the papers.
The article, written by UTA librarian Bobbie Stevens Johnson, highlights an illustrated poem written by Barnard Elliott Bee, a Brigadier General in the Civil War. The manuscript pages are from Special Collections' Mexican War Collections and several pages of the illustrated poem are included in the article.
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The column written by the Special Collections' manuscript archivist is a popular item in the Compass Rose. This issue features a description and photos from the William J. Bardin Family Papers. A longtime Arlington, Texas, resident, Bardin was a surveyor, field engineer, and superintendent of many notable built landmarks, including the Houston International Airport, Casa Manana, the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, Arlington Downs Racetrack and countless highways and roads for the Texas State Highway Department.
In this new feature, the Compass Rose asks for the assistance of its readers in identifying a picture from its collections. This first unknown photograph is of an unidentified, presumable Texas courthouse. Take a look and see if you have seen it before.
 Poirson, J. B. Carte du Mexique. Paris: F. Schoell, 1811. |
Saxon, Assistant Director of Libraries, reports on the status of the fund raising efforts for the Garrett Endowment Fund. The article notes the many supporters, both foundations and individuals, who generously contributed to the campaign.
An advance notice of the forthcoming Third Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. The lecture series will be held in conjunction with the joint meeting of the Texas Map Society and the Philip Lee Phillips Society from the Library of Congress on October 4 and 5, 2002. Includes a list of speakers and presentations.
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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.
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A Geographic Truth |
The Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library (VGCHL) recently acquired the Murray Hudson Atlas and Geography Collection. The collection consists of 626 items dating from 1736 to 1988. The majority of the materials come from the nineteenth century and constitute a significant addition to the founding goals of the VGCHL. Goodwin relates how UTA acquired Hudson's atlases, describes the scope of the collection, and highlights a few of the treasures found in the collection.
You've Got Guide
Special Collections has
recently published Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the Special
Collections Division compiled by Shirley Rodnitzky and edited by Gerald
Saxon (Arlington, Tx., 2000). The Guide contains descriptions
for more than 1,000 collections received from 1967 through 1999. Rodnitzky tells
how the Guide is organized and what is contained within its
pages, and the future direction of the Guide. Included in the
article are several images taken from the collections.
Samuel Maas and the Galveston Experience
 Galveston, Texas, ca.1852. |
In this extensive review of the Samuel Mass Papers, Perkins writes about the early history of this prominent Jewish German business man and his adventures when he moved to Galveston in 1839. Maas invested his money and life in the prosperity of Galveston and those ventures quickly aided in the development of Galveston's economy, politics, culture, and growth. The article is rich with views of life in early Galveston as well as the people involved in it's development.
"The Grape and Canister Shot Poured Down on Them Like
Hail"
 "Flight of Santa Anna from the Battle of Cerro Gordo," (Philadelphia: R. Magee, ca.1848). Battle of Cerro Gordo," (Philadelphia: R. Magee, ca.1848). |
The article features the recent acquisition of the journal of Thomas Lindsay, a soldier from Pennsylvania who landed with the forces at Vera Cruz during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. The journal, purchased by Special Collections with the assistance of Jenkins and Virginia Garrett, is an important addition to the well known Mexican War collections of the division. Spurr relates the events of the Vera Cruz landing and gives us the Lindsay's perspective on well-known battles Lindsay saw first hand. The journal covers one year of the war from the landings at Vera Cruz to June 25, 1848, when the war ended.
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