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Meetings, repository news, and other events in the San Antonio area archives community
Meetings, repository news, and other events in the San Antonio area archives community
Happening Saturday October 7th, 2023 from 10 AM to 2 PM at Brick in the Blue Star Arts Complex.
An archives bazaar is an opportunity for area archival repositories and community archives to showcase collections and their collecting focus. Free and open to the public, attendees will be able to learn about area archives, explore collection tables, listen to presentations, participate in a preservation lab, and enjoy regional musical entertainment.
See the San Antonio Archives Bazaar page for more details on programming, participants, and more!
This program is made possible in part with a grant from the Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a grant from the Society of Southwest Regional Archivists, and institutional sponsors.
March 2, 2023
Workshops are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration is $35 per person and includes lunch.
Tuesday, March 28 Edinburg: Museum of South Texas History Register now!
Thursday, March 30 Victoria: Museum of the Coastal Bend Register now!
Tuesday, April 18 Longview: Gregg County Historical Museum Register now!
Thursday, April 20 Abilene: Grace Museum Register now!
Tuesday, May 2 El Paso: Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Gardens Register now!
Thursday, May 4 Canyon: Palo Duro Canyon State Park Register now!
March 1, 2023
Wittliff Collections, exhibit dates:
Now through Dec. 8th, 2023
Reception: Sunday, April 2, 2023 - Event details and RSVP link
The first issue of Texas Monthly hit newsstands in February 1973 with the aim of elevating Texas culture and politics to the level of places like New York and California. Few people expected it to last a year — much less fifty. Yet, with its acclaimed longform articles, insightful deep dives into the nuances of Texas politics, and the celebration of what makes Texas unique, the magazine became an overwhelming success.
Texas Monthly is often – and rightfully, called a writer’s magazine, yet its Art Department has been equally groundbreaking, shaping the way that we see Texas. Through editorial cartoons that lampoon politics, to photographic essays that highlight the unhoused population of downtown Houston, along with striking portraits of people who make Texas what it is, Texas Monthly art editors, illustrators, and photographers gave the world a look into the “real Texas.”
This exhibition title, Behind the Lines, is a nod to the editor’s column that told the stories behind the stories and allowed readers a glimpse of the editorial process. Our intent is to do the same with the magazine’s art production, highlighting original artwork and archival photographs found in Texas Monthly’s archive, and also featuring portrait photography published over the fifty-year run of Texas Monthly.
February 28, 2023
Sophienburg Museum and Archives
New Braunfels, Texas
From 1947 to 1982, the West End Dance Hall and Baseball Park was the heart of New Braunfels west side. Dances, ball games, weddings, fund-raisers, and family parties took place here, thanks to the efforts of Felipe Delgado and his family and friends.
Please visit the Sophienburg Museum and Archives to learn more about this place, that lives on in memories, and please contact us to add your own West End memory.
Access the collection at this link: https://sophienburg.com/damas-caballeros/
February 28, 2023
A new online exhibit from the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Congregational Archives
This exhibit is a celebration, documentation, and one of the first acknowledgements of the Mexican American Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio) who have served in Texas in what is frequently called 'greater Mexico' - the region North of the natural waterway border that Texans call the Rio Grande, and that Mexicans call the Río Bravo del Norte. Dr. Américo Paredes, a Mexican American folklorist, is credited with the use of the term 'greater Mexico' as a tool to understand the flow of mexicanidad in the US-Mexico borderlands, and also in diaspora areas.
We see a transnational fluidity reflected in the Sisters’ assignments to the various Texas missions in the congregation. It was sensible to have at least one ethnic
access the exhibit here: https://ccviarchives.omeka.net/
Mexican Sister in our missions that primarily served Mexican Americans, to be a bridge but also to bring an understanding of the local community. The majority of these documented Sisters were born in Texas, but also included are Sisters who were born in Mexico, who came to Texas early in their lives, and then remained to minister here, primarily in education.
February 27, 2023
hosted by Texas A & M University - San Antonio Archives and Special Collections
Access the collection at this link: https://cdm15909.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/saaacam
September 27, 2022
6pm - 7pm, Landa Branch Library
Miraflores The Legacy of Dr. Aureliano Urrutia with Anne Elise Urrutia
Join us at Landa Branch Library, 233 Bushnell Ave., to learn about the historical Miraflores garden with the great-granddaughter of Dr. Aureliano Urrutia, Anne Elise Urrutia.
Dr. Aureliano Urrutia built the atmospheric garden in memory of his homeland after immigrating to San Antonio from Mexico in 1914. In "Miraflores," Urrutia uncovers the garden’s history by drawing from family archives and other primary sources to reveal this remarkable story.
September 20, 2019
Meeting of San Antonio Regional Archivists
December 16, 2018
San Antonio Founder's Day Celebration
The annual San Antonio Founder's Day Celebration will be held in Travis Park on December 16th. This is a rain or shine event.
October 16, 2018
City of San Antonio Municipal Archives and Records hosts open house
"The Municipal Archives & Records Facility is located at 719 South Santa Rosa Street. Free parking is available in the front and back of the building. Come explore the City’s historic treasures and learn about the efforts being made by the Office of the City Clerk to preserve, organize and provide the public access to the City’s Official Historical Records."
October 5, 2018
Meeting of San Antonio Regional Archivists
May 23-26, 2018
Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting
The SSA Annual Meeting will be held at the Hilton Palacio del Rio.
March 30, 2018
Partnering with The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM)
About the forthcoming San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum from the Southern Historical Collection blog at University of North Carolina.
March 5, 2018
The Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, by Cecilia Gutierrez Venable and the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate (Arcadia Publishing)
A new book of historical images from one of San Antonio's women religious congregations.
March 2, 2018
Meeting of San Antonio Regional Archivists
February 5, 2018
UTSA unveils photo exhibit in honor of San Antonio’s tricentennial year
"The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Libraries Special Collections has an exciting new online photo exhibit highlighting moments in San Antonio’s history. La Puerta: A Photographic Journey of San Antonio opens the door to the city’s past as part of its Tricentennial celebration."
January 13, 2018
Marianist archives land in S.A.
"St. Mary's University is now the site of the National Archives of the Marianist Province of the United States...While the archive contains local Marianist history, it also reflects Marianist work across the United States and in other parts of the world."