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Building History
1884-1911Texas Collection
Texas History Collection/Barker Texas History Center
1911-1934 ,1950-1971
Texas Collection1934-1950
1971- PresentBriscoe Center
for American History
Library at a Glance200,000 items
•books
•ephemera
Concentrations
• Texas History
• Western Americana
•pamphlets
•Magazines
•Antebellum South
• University publications
FOUNDING COLLECTIONS
•Swante Palm
•Ashbel Smith
•Littlefield Fund for Southern History
The London Times, Texas Supplement.March 31st, 1925.
Major Collections
•Frank Kell Collection of Rocky Mountain West
•Vandale Collection of Western Americana
•Beadle Dime Novels
•Eberstadt Western Americana Collection
•University of Texas Publications
•Frank Caldwell Collection of Texana
•Natchez Trace Periodical Collection
PRESERVATION
Phase box for fragile books
Envelope and binder for
pamphlets
Acidic newspaper with rubber cement
Building the Collection
• Donations
• Purchase/Donation of existing collections
• New purchase
• Archives Transfers
Free Lee Otis, Volume 1, Issue 1. September 1969.
La Relacion, 1555Cabeza de Vaca
•First published in 1542
•His report, transcribed after his return to Spain
•First book about ‘Texas’
•Our oldest book
Natchez Trace Periodicals
•Hundreds of periodicals and pamphlets documenting life in the lower Mississippi River Valley
•Span through late 17th century to 20th century.
•Fragile and varying sizes
L’Heroine, 1819.Author unknown.
•First known mention of Texas as backdrop
•Novel about traveling Texas and Louisiana
•Fictional account based on fact
Beadle Dime Novels
•Ephemera-like quality
•Fragile, no patron access to original copies
•Like NTC collection, they follow the social interests of the time
Translations of Laws, Orders, and Contracts
Stephen F. Austin•First book published in Texas with more than 12 pages
•Discusses first Anglo-American settlement in Texas
•Briscoe Center copy owned by James F. Perry, husband of Emily Austin Bryan Perry