history of the benson latin american collection
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Jane Garner, February 2011TRANSCRIPT
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE BLAC
by Jane GarnerFebruary 2011
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MAJOR DATES
1920-2119341970
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Old Main Building, 1891
18841889
1891
Library
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Battle Hall
2011
1931
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ACQUISITION OF THE GENARO GARCIA LIBRARY
1920-21
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Who was Genaro García?Mexican bibliophileLawyer Historian Director of the Museo Nacional de
Historia, Arqueología y Etnología, Mexico City
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Genaro García’s Library
11,000 volumes15,000 pamphlets“numerous” newspaper files200,000 pages of manuscripts
and archival collections
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Bookplate and stamp of Genaro García
Missale Morinensis, Paris, 1491
Oldest book owned by the BLAC
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University contactUT Regent Lutcher Stark
UT Prof. Charles Hackett
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From Mexico City to Austin, 1921
E.W. (Ernest William) Winkler
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García Library at UT
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Carlos Castañeda and the García Library
1927 campus map1931
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FROM BATTLE HALL TO MAIN BUILDING
1934
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Moving to the new Main Building, 1934
2011
Old Main
LAC/Texas Collections
Base of Tower
LAC/TexasCollections
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The JGI Collection, 1937
Oldest Mexican imprint in the BLAC [1544] and
bookplate of Joaquín García Icazbalceta
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The “Relaciones Geográficas”
Atitlan, Guatemala, 1585
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BLAC Reading Room, 1940
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Nettie Lee Benson
1965 1967
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Reading Room and Annex (Tower)
former classrooms
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Why We Needed to Move
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Staff in their “Offices”
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FROM MAIN BUILDING TO SID RICHARDSON HALL,
UNIT 11970
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East Campus Library & Research Center Building
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Moving the BLAC, Dec. 28-31, 1970
Bookmover minus dolly
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Marcas de fuego (book brands)
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How Not to Design a Library
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED“It is most fitting that such a collection should be built at this University because located as it is, in Austin, almost on the border of Mexico, the gateway to that vast region that lies south of the Rio Grande, it is the most accessible place to scholars of this country and of Latin-America.”
(Carlos Castañeda?)
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