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Laredo City Hall, c.1905 (Ann Shanks Collection)
Sue and Radcliffe
Killam Library
Special Collections & Archives
Texas A&M
International University's
Killam Library Special Collections & Archives was
established as an independent unit in July 1999. Patrons should sign the
patron guestbook in order to gain access to the Special Collections Reading
Room. If you require assistance in using the Special Collections, it is
recommended you call ahead to make arrangements with the Special Collections Librarian.
January 14 – April 30, 2008
Monday & Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday & Thursday 9am – 6pm
Friday 9am – 5pm
*Saturdays 10am – 2pm
*Open on the following Saturdays: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/1, 3/8, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26
Spring Break/Easter
March 14 – March 21, 2008
Friday 3/14 8am - 1pm
Monday – Wednesday 3/17-3/19 8am - 5pm
Thursday 3/20 7:30am – 11:30 & 12:30 – 5pm
Closed Monday, January 21, 2008 & Friday, March 21, 2008
TAMIU Special Collections hopes our patrons enjoyed our weekend hours throughout Fall 2007. Please check back for updates regarding our operating hours. Thank you for your patronage!
*Due to staffing limitations and other circumstances the Special Collections hours are subject to change. Hours may be abbreviated during academic vacations, summer terms, and holidays. Feel free to call ahead to the Reference Desk at 326-2138 or to Special Collections at 326-2109.
· Archives
· Collections
· Images
· Laredo History
· Webb County History
· Guerrero Viejo Archives Project
· Regional Thesis & Dissertation Virtual Archive
Archives
· Guerrero Viejo Archives Project
· Pan American Round Table of Laredo Archives
· Political Archives - The Aldo Tatangelo
Collection, La Raza Unida
Party Papers, The Bob Bullock Papers
· Republic of the Rio Grande Research Archive (donated by Dr. Stan
Green)
· TAMIU Historical Archive – This is not the Official University
Archive. These are limited materials related to the history of TAMIU. These
materials include but are not limited to: old catalogs, budgets, DVDs of
Commencement Exercises, and photographs. This also includes materials that were
donated by Dr. Judith Zaffirini on Oct. 20, 2000.
Collections
· Aldo Tatangelo Collection (Mayor of
Laredo, 1978-1990)
· Ann Shanks Collection
· Farmer Literature Collection of Native American and
Hispanic Authors
· Hachar-LaVaude Sheet
Music Collection
· Historical Map Collection
· Laredo School
Yearbook Collection
· Lupita Ramirez
Genealogical Collection
· Rare & Fragile Book Collection
· Rose Tarver Treviño Regional
History Collection
· TAMIU/Laredo State University Thesis Collection
· Western
Americana Pamphlet Collection
Images
Laredo in 1920 - A
panoramic photograph of Laredo.
Aldo Tatangelo Collection - Preliminary inventory to and selected images from the collection
of A. Tatangelo, former mayor of Laredo.
Guerrero Viejo - Photographs by Dr.
Heriberto Sanchez, a brief history by Dr. C. Cuellár, and a bibliography.
Laredo History
Laredo, Texas (from The
Handbook of Texas Online)
A Brief History of Laredo, Texas
(published by the Laredo Chamber of Commerce)
City of Laredo's History of Laredo
Chronology - Diocese of Laredo - History of San Agustin Church
Jewish Synagogue - Laredo
Webb County
History
Webb County-The Handbook of TX Online
Links to Other
Special Collections
Special
Collections/Archives along the Texas/Mexico borderlands ("la Frontera")
Luciano Guajardo
Historical Collection at the Laredo Public Library
UT-Pan American Special Collections (Edinburg) includes the
Lower Rio Grande Valley Historical Collection,
The Borderlife Project,
and the
Rio
Grande Folklore Archive
UT-El Paso Special Collections
Special
Collections/Archives in San Antonio
UT-San
Antonio Special Collections
Special Collections/Archives in Austin
Nettie Lee Benson
Latin American Collection (UT-Austin)
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection at
the Center for
American History (UT-Austin)
Perry-Castañeda Library Map
Collection (UT-Austin)
The Latin American Network Information Center
(UT-Austin)
Special Collections/Archives elsewhere
in Texas
South Texas
Archives at Texas A & M
University - Kingsville
South West Collection at Texas Tech University (Lubbock)
Special
Collections at the University
of Houston
Mexican Documents Collection 1570-1898 in the Special Collections, University of Houston
Special Collections/Archives in Mexico
Archivos Civiles y Archivos Eclesiásticos
The Latin American Network Information Center based at UT Austin
Other noteworthy Special
Collections/Archives
Museum of
International Folk Art (Santa Fe, NM)
J.
D. Robb Archive of Southwestern Music at
the Center
for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
Revised January 2008-- J. Hatcher
