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As the local history division of the Austin Public Library, the Austin History Center provides the public with information about the history, current events, and activities of Austin and Travis County. We collect and preserve information about local governments, businesses, residents, institutions, and neighborhoods so that generations to come will have access to our history.
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Austin, Texas.
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Austin, Texas. The Catholic Archives of Texas is nationally recognized as one of the most valuable resources for the history of the Catholic Church in the Southwest. Its records span nearly four centuries of development of the Catholic religion in the southwestern region of the United States and Northern Mexico.
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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
From the University of Texas at Austin.
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Archives and Manuscripts Collections
Contains nearly 70,000 linear feet & comprise more than 7000 individual collections. These collections reflect the collecting scope of the Center, namely, the history of Texas, the Southwest, the South, and the Rocky Mountain West, the history of the University of Texas, congressional history, & specific national-in-scope topics, including media history & the history of the professional touring entertainment industry.
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Benson Latin American Collection
Nearly 900,000 books, periodicals, & pamphlets, 2,500 linear feet of manuscripts, 19,000 maps, 21,000 microforms, 11,500 broadsides, 93,500 photographs, & 38,000 other items from & about Latin America, & on materials relating to Latinos in the US. Latin America is here defined to include Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean island nations, South America, & areas of the US during the period they were a part of the Spanish Empire or Mexico.
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More than 35,000 printed & manuscript maps which date from 1513 to the present. These cartographic resources depict many geographic areas throughout the world, but their special strengths relate to Texas, the U.S. South, the U.S. Southwest & Mexico.
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Alphabetical index gives locations and years available.
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Music and Entertainment History
Supported by the Society for the Preservation of Professional Touring Entertainment History to document the touring entertainment industry's history. From the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Center's Newspaper Collections contain more than 4,500 Texas, Southern, U.S., and non-U. S. titles and is the largest collection of its kind in Texas.
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Texas Newspaper Collection by Ethnic, Religious, Professional or Political Orientation
Listing of more than 600 Texas newspapers indexed by ethnic, religious, professional, or political orientation .
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One of the nation's principal resources for research on topics related to the history of the eleven states that seceded from the Union.
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Resources for genealogical research during the Texas colonial period, 1585-1836.
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A significant collection of telephone directories for most Texas cities & towns from roughly the late 19th century through the present day. Index provides alphabetical listing of locations & years available.
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Holds more than 130,000 books & periodicals about Texas, published in Texas, or produced by writers strongly associated with Texas.
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Contains materials documenting the historical development of the western United States, with special focus on the Rocky Mountain West.
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Texas State Library & Archives Commission
Austin, Texas. Preserves the records of government for public scrutiny & secures and makes accessible historically significant records & other valuable resources.
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Links to online searchable databases and information on their holding not online.
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The Romani Archive and Documentation Center - The University of Texas at Austin
Austin. Over 25,000 books, monographs, bound articles, papers and letters, prints, transparencies, photographs, audio- and video-recorded material, framed and unframed prints and documents as well as many other non-media items.
