by Stephanie Luke
Special Collections in 2021: 1st Quarterly Review
The purpose of The Compass Rose is to raise awareness of Special Collections' resources and to foster the use of these resources. The blog series also reports significant new programs, initiatives, and acquisitions of Special Collections.
This post was co-authored by Special Collections Metadata Librarian Stephanie Luke and Photograph Collections Specialist Sara Pezzoni.
Special Collections offers the first of a new series of blog posts to highlight some of our recent acquisitions and reproductions of materials from our collections. In this post, we review our latest activity for January, February, and March 2021.
Acquisitions of Printed Materials
Dr. Jack Franke African Map Collection
Through the generosity of UTA alumnus Dr. Jack Franke, Special Collections has been actively adding to its collections of African maps. Images of many of these maps can be viewed in the UTA Libraries Digital Gallery.
A map of the African continent, title L’Afrique Divisee en ses Empires, Royaumes, et etats, published in Amsterdam by I. B. Elwe in 1792.
African American real estate advertisements
Special Collections has acquired two broadsides that document the African American experience in North Texas in the early 20th century. Jennings City is described as a new colored town encourages Black Texans to relocate to a settlement 40 miles southwest of Texarkana. It describes Jennings as “thickly populated by enterprising colored people” who “offer you their support and are anxious for you to join in and help them build a little modern city.” Likewise, the broadside titled Colored people: own a lot in Grandview Place encourages African Americans to purchase real estate in Austin, boasting that “Grandview Place is Austin’s best home property for colored people.”
Geological Map of Texas
This blueline map of Texas was published in 1920 by Fort Worth’s Standard Blue Print Map & Engineering Co. It shows the location of oil wells and fields as well as marking types of soil and rock. There is a contemporary notation on the map outlining Gillespie County with an arrow pointing to Fredericksburg. This map is accompanied by a certificate from the Gillespie County Development Company for a half-acre interest in its oil and gas lease.
Image Reproduction Highlights
Materials found within Special Collections’ holdings have been used across a wide variety of outlets, including (but not limited to) features in local news stories, on television shows, in publications, and in public exhibitions. Below are some examples of where and how our materials have been used this quarter.
Local News
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram collection, which came in increments to UTA Libraries from 1984 to 1999, is often used in a variety of news articles and columns published by the original donor, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. This quarter, the Star-Telegram used photographs from the collection for three stories:
- “70 years ago, the New Year was greeting with a festive hope in Fort Worth,” January 9, 2021 by Carol Roark
- “Queen Tut was Fort Worth’s first royalty,” January 23, 2021 by Mike Nichols
- “A rabbi supported Black pastors at a key moment in Fort Worth’s civil rights movement,” February 8, 2021 by Hollace Ava Weiner
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Printed Materials
- Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics Since 1900 by David Alexander Smith, University of Oklahoma Press, published February 2021; image used from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
- Fort Worth Stories by Richard F. Selcer, University of North Texas Press, published February 2021; images used from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, J.W. Dunlop Photograph Collection, Julia Kathryn Garrett Collection
- Metro Music by Gene Fowler and William Williams, Texas Christian University Press, published March 2021; images used from Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, Jack White Photograph Collection, UTA Sheet Music Collection
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- The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics by Frank Andre Guridy, University of Texas Press, published March 2021; images used from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection and Squire Haskins Photography, Inc. Collection
- Exhibition catalog for exhibit titled Hayter et l'atelier du monde (Hayter and the workshop of the world) re: Stanley William Hayter, British printmaker, held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Rennes, France) February-May 2021; image used from the Flora & Dickson Reeder Papers
Exhibitions/Display
- Permanent display of photos at the North Texas Municipal Water District building in Wylie, Texas; images used from John W. Carpenter Papers and Squire Haskins Photography, Inc. Collection
- Exhibit re: the Berachah Home created by the Arlington Historical Society, displayed at Woodland West branch of Arlington Public Library Feb-March 2021; images used from the Berachah Home Collection
- Exhibit re: History of Abilene, Texas, held at The Grace Museum’s Children’s Museum, March 2021 (semi-permanent); image used from Virginia Garrett Cartographic Collection
Film/Television
- Citizens at Last: Texas Women Fight for the Vote, PBS Film, aired March 19, 2021; images used from Virginia Garrett Cartographic Collection, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, Basil Clemons Collection, Texas State Federation of Labor Photograph Collection, J.W. Dunlop Photograph Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection
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