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A Career of Service

Each item in the UTA Libraries Special Collections Archive has a unique story to tell, and Ben Huseman has been mapping out those stories for the…

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Antarctica Maps Share History

The story of Antarctica can now be explored in the UTA Libraries Special Collections Department through a recent donation of 150 antique maps and…

Sir Francis Drake's Fleet Raids Cape Verde Islands

Coordinating Cartographic Collections

UTA Libraries Special Collections Hosts Events and a Gala Premier Exhibition of the Africa Map Collection of Dr. Jack Franke

A man in the ocean in the jaws of a sea monster with the Compass Rose logo in black in the upper left corner

“Here there be monsters”: The Art of the Mapmaker during the Age of Exploration

A highlight of some artistic details from our cartographic collections

Postcard of Egypt with Compass Rose logo

From Fairy Tale Villages to Coffee: How Europeans Depict Egypt Over Time

How the European vision of Egypt has been shaped by cartographers over time

A young boy writes Be My Valentine on a heart on a chalkboard

Celebrating Valentine’s Day at Special Collections

Highlighting some Valentine’s Day items from our collections

Detail from a postcard of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth with the Compass Rose logo overlaid in the top left corner.

UTA Libraries has contributed over 1,000 images to Wikimedia Commons

Celebrating over 1,000 UTA Libraries maps, photographs, and postcards now on Wikimedia Commons and used in Wikipedia articles.

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

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

Japonia detail junk

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