Special Collections Division the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Vol. XIV * No. 1 * Spring and Fall 2000

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The World in Your Hands: Recent Cartographic Acquisitions
By Katherine R. Goodwin

Goodwin describes several significant items added to the growing cartographic collections of the Special Collections Division, including an eighteenth century Spanish produced map, an English pocket globe, and the French edition of the four volume work of Alexander von Humboldt with atlas on New Spain. Archivist Goodwin also discusses the historical background of the pieces.

 

 

 

 

Seek and Ye Shall Find an Aid
By Shirely Rodnitzky

In her continuing series on finding aids, Rodnitzky presents three synopses of recently processed collections, including W. K. Gordon, Sr. Papers, Frances Sanger Mossiker Family Papers, and the Maclin Robertson, Jr. Family Papers. Robertson is a descendent of Texas empresario Sterling Clack Robertson. He married Nora Enloe who was from a Tyler County pioneer family and the papers include genealogical materials and histories of selected areas of East Texas.The Mossiker family likewise is associated with early Texas families, including Alexander Sanger, an early Dallas settler and civic leader. The papers include Sanger, Beekman and Mossiker family materials. W. K. Gordon, Sr. was a surveyor and civil engineer who arrived in Texas in 1889 to survey a rail route. He spent sixty years with the Texas and Pacific Coal Company in Thurber, Texas, and was instrumental in the discovery of the Ranger oil field in 1917.

Virginia Garrett Lectures to be October 6
An announcement

An announcement of the forthcoming Garrett Lectures in Cartographic History to be held at UTA on Friday, October 6, 2000. The Lectures will be followed on the 7th of October by the Texas Map Society and a joint registration is offered.

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MAPSCO Donates Archives to UTA
By Katherine R. Goodwin

MAPSCO, Inc., a Dallas-based company specializing in the creation and publishing of city maps for the past fifty years, has designated the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library at The University of Texas at Arlington as the company's archives. Goodwin reviews the company's history and products as well as describes the historic value of the maps to researchers.

 

The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Comre. M. C. Perry
By Sally Gross

Special Collections has recently purchased a Mexican War vintage lithograph titled, The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Comre. M. C. Perry. The artist, Henry Walke, served as the executive officer of the bomb brig Vesuvius of the United States Navy . He also saw service in the Civil War. Gross describes Walke's war time accomplishments, his artistic publications, which include the Frigate Mississippi, and the history of the ship itself.

 

 

Seek and Ye Shall Find
By Shirley Rodnitzky

In her continuing series on descriptive finding aids, Archivist Rodnitzky focuses on three recent finding aids produced by archival students in the Special Collections Division. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Records (AR425) is a collection encompassing 18 boxes of field notes, logbooks, and reports produced by engineers and maintenance workers dating from 1889 to 1991. The Joe O. Crawley Family Papers, 1894-1982, are a collection of personal and business papers that reveal a unique social history of the formative years of the city of Arlington and the university. The last collection, University of Texas at Arlington Women's Center Records, comprises three administratively separate organizations that were formed to meet the needs and interests of women on the UTA campus.

 

Activities in Special Collections Heat Up in the Summer
By Gerald D. Saxon

Special Collections staff member Donita Maligi talks about the historic photograph collection.

Summer of 2000 in Special Collections was especially active as the division played host to a number of groups. The division again played host to the Texas Rangers Summer Academy kids as well as hosting two summer sessions with the 21 teacher-consultants who are working with the Cartographic Connections Project. Saxon reports on the activities and includes a photo collage of participants and staff.

 

 

 

Summerlee Foundation Awards Grant for Preservation

Typus (Orbis Universalis by Sebastian Munster published in Basil, 1550.

n September the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas awarded the Special Collections Division a grant of $15,000 to be used toward the preservation and conservation of maps, atlases, and geographies. Specifically the award will be used to treat 40 maps most at risk in the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library as well as nearly 50 atlases and school geographies. In addition the grant will be used to purchase an encapsulating welder for division staff to use when encapsulating maps.

"The Summerlee Foundation award will allow UTA to target a number of the cartographic items in our holdings most in need of conservation work.," said Sally Gross, head of Special Collections. "The foundation has partnered with UTA on a number of important projects and programs in the past, and we are pleased that it has chosen to support the important work that the Virginia Garrett Library is doing in preserving the rich cartographic history of the region," commented Gerald Saxon, Associate Director of Special Collections and Branch Libraries.

Thank you Summerlee for your generous assistance!

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