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Research Ready: January-February 2023
The Texas Collection posts newly accessible resources each month. If you have any questions or would like to use these materials, please let us know and we would be happy to assist! Manuscript...
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Finding a Voice Through Print: Baptist Women Mission Workers in Texas
This article was written by Amy Swanson, Rare Books Catalog Librarian Southern Baptist women played a significant role in the missionary movement of the latter half of the nineteenth century. The...
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Seize the DIA at BU!
This post was written by Elizabeth Rivera, PhD, Baylor University Archivist In anticipation of stress awareness month in April, Bear Country will celebrate its 91st Diadeloso on Tuesday, March 28,...
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Texas Farm Workers and Migrant Farm Labor
This post was written by Payton Perez. Payton is a Junior, Political Science major; this is her first year working at The Texas Collection. Payton conducted preservation services on the photographs in...
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A Century of Lone Star History: Celebrating The Texas Collection at 100!
Expansive, rich, divisive, unifying: the history of Texas is, arguably, the most unique of any state in the Union. From the domain of Native tribes to the holding of distant European empires, a place...
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Three Projects and Three Lessons (for Me? . . . a Budding Archivist?)
This post was written by Horace Maxile, a student in the Museum Studies program. Horace recently completed a five-month independent study at The Texas Collection focused on archival work including...
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Creating a Richer “Comunidad”: Help Us Tell the Stories of Waco’s “Calle Dos”...
The collections we maintain take many forms: photographs, maps, books, coins, even bells from Spanish missions have found their way into our holdings! All these materials help us tell the stories of...
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Centennial Cookies
This post was written by Shelly Salo, Outreach and Instruction Librarian at The Texas Collection I started working as the Outreach and Instruction Librarian at the Texas Collection in July. From the...
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Texas Is Wherever Texans Are – Even When It Comes To Blogs
WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TRADE TRIP – Men of the Waco Chamber of Commerce pose on top of a locomotive of the St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad on April 6, 1931. Since at least 2010 – and for more...
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Shakespeare’s First Folio in a Global Context: Rare Books from the Age of...
This post was written by Prof. Alex McNair of Baylor University’s Division of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. An abbreviated version of this essay was...
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