UTSA Photo Collection

A UTSA newsrelease kindly reminds us that

Photo archives in demand by businesses looking for historic Texas images

By Lynn Gosnell
Special Projects Writer

"(July 3, 2008)--When the set designers of the iconic Texas movie Lonesome Dove needed to depict the Lone Star State circa cattle-drive era, they turned to the Photo Archives of the Institute of Texan Cultures Library, located at the University of Texas at San Antonio."

 

A further extract reveals ""We serve a wide variety of patrons," said Yu Li, UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures librarian and the person in charge of the photo archive, which comprises more than 3.5 million images from the history of San Antonio, South Texas and the Border region.

Every week Li and her staff take calls and emails from around the world requesting information or permission to use the images. ITC Library staff field well more than 1,500 commercial requests for images every year, Li said."

 

Read more

http://www.utsa.edu/today/2008/07/ITCphotoarchive.cfm 

 

Postings from San Antonio Public Library Catalog

Unexpected postings from SAPL

I was reviewing my "Texas library" Google blog search feed, when I opened two entries of the feed and found two citations from the SAPL catalog:
http://sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/record=b1631451*eng
http://sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/record=b1631443*eng



The record numbers are respectively b1631451 and b1631443

The brief citations are

Author Gutiérrez Ibarra, Celia.
Title: Documentos sobre la colonización de Texas, 1827-1831 / Celia Gutiérrez Ibarra.
Publication Info.: México, D.F. : Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1991.

AND

Author Cavazos Garza, Israel.
Title El general Alonso de León : descubridor de Texas / Israel Cavazos Garza.
Publication Info. Monterrey : R. Ayuntamiento de Monterrey, 1993.

Both are wonderful Texana, I seen them both, but

Why or how did these get caught up in an RSS feed?