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Finding Aids

A finding aid is a detailed guide compiled specifically to describe the arrangement and contents of a collection and to comment on its research potential. It serves the researcher seeking information about a person, family, or corporate body. The standard Finding Aid includes a biographical or historical sketch, a scope and content note, a provenance statement, restrictions on use, and a container list. The detail of the description depends on the volume of expected use and, or the importance of the materials.

Special Collections is committed to placing finding aids online for the its manuscript holdings. The list below is the beginning of this process. In addition, Special Collections maintains in print format hundreds of finding aids to collections. Please contact the Reference Desk at Special Collections for information concerning a specific collection.

The list below is divided by collection focus, including Historical Cartographic Collections, Historical Manuscript Collections, Texas Labor Archives, Texas Political History Collections, Historical Photographs Collections, and University Archives. Underlined titles are links to those finding aids currently available online. Other titles represent collections whose online finding aids are in process and will shortly be available online. Many of the finding aids will print out at twenty or more pages. Be patient, the files are large and take a few minutes to load. For your convenience, items on the list marked with

will have a link to a downloadable file. Follow directions found at the top of the page of the specific Finding Aid.

Special Collections has published A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the Special Collections Division at The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries (Arlington, Texas: UT Arlington, 2000). An electronic version of the Guide is available online. The Guide includes a detailed listing of archival, manuscript, and photographic collections held in Special Collections.

Table of Contents

Historical Cartographic Collections
Historical Manuscript Collections
Historical Photograph Collections
Spanish Language Historical Collections
Texas Labor Archives
Texas Political History Collections
University Archives

Historical Cartographic Collections
Title	Size	Collection No.
Topographic Maps of Texas, 1890-1972	19 map folders	93-1784 @ map annex
Historical Manuscript Collections
Title	Size	Collection No.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Records 1889-1981 (bulk 1889-1930, 1965-1979)	7.17 linear ft.	AR 425
Bardin, William J. Family Papers 1893-1995, n.d.	.75 linear ft.	AR 433
Benham, Henry W. Family Papers 1813-1954, bulk 1836-1915	3.2 linear ft.	AR 388
Brister, Robert Hanks Papers 1786-1996, bulk 1911-1965	6.85 linear ft.	AR 434
Capps, Benjamin Papers 1946-1993	6.5 linear ft.	AR 363
Capps, Sallie B. Papers 1869-1943	1.2 linear ft.	GA 196-198
Crawley, Joe O. Family Papers 1894-1982	1.5 linear ft.	GA 219-221
Fairly, Hugh James Papers 1842-1936, bulk 1854-1878	.17 linear ft.	GA 47
Fisher, Beeman Papers 1896-1983	1.89 linear ft.	AR 402
Fort Worth Driving Club Records 1905-1915	.17 linear ft.	GA 47
Geo. E. Dilley & Sons Founders and Machinists Records, 1881-1931, bulk 1907-1930	2.7 linear ft.	AR 420
Gordon, Sr., W. K. Papers 1888–1986, bulk 1888-1922	2.1 linear ft.	AR 421
Green, Ben K. (King) Papers, 1900-1976, bulk 1937-1974	11 linear ft.	AR 326
Greene, A. C. Papers, 1848-1998,bulk 1925-1997	44.1 linear ft.	AR 409
Hogan, William Ransom Papers 1934-1939	21 Folders	GA 21
Irion Family Papers 1826-1929, bulk 1835-1873 [Revised 5/1/02]]	.90 linear ft.	GA 1-2, GO 2/6, 2/7
Kendall Family Papers 1789-1949, bulk 1846-1946	17 linear ft.	AR 376
Lale, Max S. Papers 1936-1994	2 linear ft.	AR 383
Lamar, Moses P. Family Papers 1797-1969, bulk 1855-1925	.4 linear ft.	GA 236
Maas, Samuel Papers 1824-1900	.75 linear ft.	GA 11-12
Meginness, John Franklin Papers 1849-1919	.5 linear ft.	GA 119
Mexican War Collection 1844-1857	.40 linear ft.	GA 43
Mossiker, Frances Sanger Family Papers, 1887-1985, bulk 1910-1930	1.25 linear ft.	AR 423
Paddock, B. B. Papers, 1826-1946, bulk 1862-1921	3.5 linear ft.	GA 194-195, OS 201-202, 237-239
Robertson Colony Papers 1763-1991	101 linear ft.	AR 342, OS 212-217
Robertson Colony Collection Office Records 1976-1992	109 linear ft.	AR 341
Robertson, Jr., Maclin Family Papers, ca. 1895-1989; bulk 1914-1989	.7 linear ft.	AR 422, OS379
Robinson, Thomas B. Diary, 1865-1866	1 folder	GA 47
Society of Professional Journalists, Fort Worth Chapter, Records 1950-1996	3.60 linear ft.	AR 392
Sharp, C. A. Papers 1871-1976	.83 linear ft.	AR 428
Texas Confederate Gravesite Project Records 1986-1990	2.5 linear ft.	AR 429
Thurber Historical Association Records 1888-1992		AR 399
Ward, William Allen Papers 1920-1960, bulk 1920-1936	2.2 linear ft.	AR 315
Zuber, William Physick Collection 1891-1912	3 inches (63 items)	GA 19, GO 2
Historical Photographs Collections
Title	Size	Collection No.
Clemons, Basil Photograph Collection 1919-1948	35 linear ft.	AR 317
Fort Worth News-Tribune Collection 1970-1989	69 linear ft.	AR 368
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection ca. 1849-1990, bulk 1920s-1970s [General Description of Collection & Series]	818 linear ft. (583 boxes); approx. 2,745,000 Film Negatives	AR 406
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection Series 1: Photographs--Subjects ca. 1904-1976	47.5 linear ft. (76 boxes)	AR 406, Series 1
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection Series 2: Photographs--People ca. 1861-1987, bulk 1920-1979	81 linear ft. (125 boxes)	AR 406, Series 2
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection Series 3: Photographs--Sports--People and Subjects ca. 1888-1979	28 linear ft. (45 boxes)	AR 406, Series 3
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection Series 4: Photograph--Early Texas 1849-1922, bulk 1870-1919	3 linear ft. (12 boxes)	AR 406, Series 4
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection Series 5: Oversize Photographs: Aerial Views and Subjects, People, Sports, and Early Texas 1897-1986, bulk 1920s-1970s	9.5 linear ft. (23 boxes)	AR 406, Series 5
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection Series 7: Printed Material--Vertical File, Scrapbook, and Centennial Issue 1889-1986, bulk 1920s-1970s	10.25 linear ft. (11 boxes)	AR 406, Series 7
White, Jack Photograph Collection ca. 1860s-1994, bulk 1873-1980s	11.2 linear ft.	AR 407
Spanish Language Historical Manuscripts
Title	Size	Collection No.
Archivo Eclesiastico de Comayagua 1679-1938	16 Rolls of (35mm) microfilm	[No number assigned]
Honduran Archives on Microfilm at The University of Texas at Arlington Library: A Guide		[No number assigned]
Honduras National Archives Microfilm: Colonial Section	72 rolls (35 mm) microfilm	[No number assigned]
Preliminary Guide to the Collections Microfilmed at the Honduras National Archives and at the Department of Olancho	72 rolls (35mm) microfilm	[No number assigned]
Salazar Ilarregui, Jos' Papers, 1823-1898	1.7 linear ft.	GA 290-211, 234
Madis, Franklin Collection, 1588-1910	1.7 linear ft.	AR 339
Records of the Municipal Archives from the Department of Yoro, Honduras, Microfilmed by The University of Texas at Arlington Library		[No number assigned]
Texas Labor Archives
Title	Size	Collection No.
Communications Workers of America, Local 6201, Fort Worth, Texas, Records 1939-1996, bulk 1951-1990	4.61 linear ft.	AR 424
Dallas Typographical Union, Local #173, Dallas, Texas, Records 1908-1993	5.17 linear ft.	AR 373
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Local 332, Kansas City, Missouri Records 1971-1987	1.5 linear ft.	AR 397
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Local 601, Anchorage, Alaska, Records, 1968-1988	3.3 linear ft.	AR 389
Texas AFL-CIO Records 1969 - 1990	4.6 linear ft.	AR 394
Texas State Employees Union/Communications Workers of America, Local 6186, Records 1980-1992	1 linear ft.	AR 396
UAW Local 276, Grand Prairie, Texas, Records 1954-1990	8.5 linear ft.	AR 372
Wright, James D. Papers 1962-1993	4.55 linear ft.	AR 400
Texas Political History Collections
Title	Size	Collection No.
Miller, Chris Papers 1964-1979	26.83 linear ft.	AR 381
Watson, Ed Papers 1966-2001, bulk 1973-1979	5.1 linear ft.	AR 432
University Archives
Title	Size	Collection No.
Clark, Jr.. Lloyd C. Papers 1920s-1991	12.5 linear ft.	AR 352
Eichelberger, Clayton Papers 1906-1986	7.4 linear ft.	AR 391
UT Arlington Office of the President Records 1957-1973	2.20 linear ft.	AR 431
UT Arlington Women's Center Records 1974-1989, bulk 1974-1984	4.84 linear ft.	AR 426

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