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Carthage woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle 1493

City Highlights (Part One): African City Views from the Nuremberg Chronicle

UTA Libraries Special Collections now has original city views dating back to 1493.

War Bonds

Buying Bonds: Wartime Fundraising in North Texas

How North Texas contributed during WWII

Screenshot of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 478 (Waco) website as captured in the Texas Labor Archives web archive, with The Compass Rose logo in the bottom left.

Web archiving union websites to enhance the Texas Labor Archives

Capturing the websites of many union locals that have previously donated physical records to the UTA Libraries to continue to document them.

Homann Egypt Today 1720 UTA Greenhouse detail Lucas Hanna Diyab and Translator

The Lee R. Greenhouse and Flora E. Lazar Map Donation (Part Three)

Continued description (part three) of a fine collection of antique maps now at UTA

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Special Collections acquires Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

John James Audubon's lesser known work is just as dazzling as his Birds of America

Penguin and Sea Lion from Wit/Jansson/Hondius, Terra Australis, 1666

The Lee R. Greenhouse and Flora E. Lazar Map Donation (Part Two)

Continued description of a fine collection of antique maps now at UTA

UTA Freewheeler player Abu Yiller (left) with Judith McGill (right) from the volleyball team.

UTA Photograph Collection, News Service Photograph Collection now on Wikipedia

Over 400 photos documenting UTA's history are now available for use on Wikimedia Commons, and over 80 are already in use in Wikipedia articles.…

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The Lee R. Greenhouse and Flora E. Lazar Map Donation (Part One)

Special Collections Receives Gift of 14 Rare and Beautiful Antique Maps and Prints

Screen shot of Graphic Atlas

Resources for Identifying Graphic Materials

The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a nonprofit, university-based laboratory devoted to preservation research. IPI provides many resources and…

Drawn to Politics The editorial Art of Etta Hulme

Drawn to Politics

Newly added to the vast holdings of the Special Collections at the University of Texas at Arlington is the work of long-time Fort Worth Star-…

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OA Week Explores Wikipedia

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about…

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Largest release of digital catalog records in history

Before computers and Google, if you wanted to find a book about the Alamo, or search for materials related to the Texas Revolution, you found…