Neal Douglass Photo Exhibit

 

APL BLOG  NEWS RELEASE:

Austin History Center of the Austin Public Library
August 20, 2008 – January 20, 2009

[Release begins] "The Austin History Center will open a new exhibit on August 20 called "Austin Americana: The Neal Douglass Photography Collection." This exhibit will explore the life and career of photojournalist Neal Douglass, the first staff photographer for the Austin Statesman.

Neal Douglass was born on April 14, 1900, in Snyder, Texas. From an early age, Neal was exposed to the journalism world as his family owned and operated the Roaring Springs Echo. At the age of 19, Neal began his own career in journalism, serving as a writer and editor for the Lubbock Avalanche, San Angelo Standard, Texarkana Press, McAllen Monitor, before ending up at the Austin Statesman in 1934. A year later, the Statesman sent Douglass to a 6-week crash course in photography at the University of Texas and asked him to head up their new photography department."  READ MORE AT http://aplnewsevents.blogspot.com/2008/08/austin-americana-neal-douglass.html

Texas Tech Southwest Collection

The Lubbock Centennial is pulling out all the stoppers.  Here's a nice summary of the Southwest Collection and Special Collection's Library from New Channel 11.

 

The Southwest Collection - Preserving Our History

"Almost all of the old pictures shown during our Centennial Tour this week came from the Southwest Collection and Special Collections Library.

The 78,000 square foot building, which is on the Texas Tech campus between the university's library and agriculture pavilion, is one of the finest collection libraries in the nation. From sports and natural history to the history of the performing arts, the Southwest Collection houses thousands of reels of microfilm, original manuscript materials, military documents, books and business records.

More than 750,000 pictures have been cataloged for historical preservation. "The Southwest Collection itself is 23 million leaves of manuscript materials relating to the history, culture and economy of this place. Our rare books component is the largest academic rare books library within a 96,000 square miles of this place," said Monte Monroe with the Southwest Collection.

The Texas Tech Board of Regents formally established the Southwest Collection in 1955, but the school's first librarian, an avid historian, started collecting material when Texas Technological College was founded.""

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