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Special Collections Exhibitions
- Time Frames Online.
- Since 2003, the treasures of Special Collections have been highlighted in a weekly feature in the Sunday edition of the Arlington Star-Telegram. Time Frames regularly spotlights a photograph, map, or document drawn from a broad spectrum of subjects in our extensive collections of the history of Arlington, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Texas, Mexico and the greater Southwest. And now with "Time Frames Online" (TFO) you have an opportunity to view selected Time Frames features as a vodcast!
- Everything is Interrelated: Alexander von Humboldt and Our Nineteenth-Century German Connections
September 17, 2009 - January 9, 2010
- United States President Thomas Jefferson once called Berlin-born Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) “the most important scientist whom I have met.” Humboldt was the most internationally recognized scientist and explorer of his time. The University of Texas at Arlington Library Special Collections commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander von Humboldt, with an exhibit celebrating this remarkable man whose influence dominated United States’ exploration and cartography for more than half a century between the time of the Lewis & Clark Expedition and the American Civil War. Exhibit highlights include a rare manuscript copy of Humboldt’s map of New Spain, nineteenth-century German hand atlases with thematic maps of the United States, Texas, and Mexico, and printed panoramic views depicting the valley of the Humboldt River in Nevada and the German settlement of New Braunfels in Texas.
"Everything is Interrelated: Alexander von Humboldt and Our Nineteenth-Century German Connections" runs from September 17, 2009 to January 9, 2010 in the Special Collections Library, located on the 6th floor of UT Arlington's Central Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Hours are 9 a.m – 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Call 817-272-2179 for more information.
- The Road West: Travel through America
June 1 - August 8, 2009
- Throughout American history, people have moved westward across the landscape. From early travelers plodding across the plains in wagons and stagecoaches, to modern wanderers racing down paved interstates, people have always required information about where they are going and how they are going to get there. The new exhibit "The Road West: Travel through America" looks at what travelers used to trek across the country, what they saw and how they remembered their trips.
"The Road West" runs from June 1 to August 8 in the Special Collections Library, located on the 6th floor of UT Arlington's Central Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Hours are 9 a.m – 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Call 817-272-2179 for more information.
- Collecting Our History: 35 Years of Special Collections
January 20, 2009 - May 16, 2009
- In honor of the 35th anniversary of UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, the Library invites the community to learn more about the Collection's holdings through a new exhibit "Collecting Our History: 35 Years of Speciall Collections". Using photographs, documents, and artifacts, the exhibit showcases five areas of interest within the collection: university archives, local history, Texas history, labor union archives, and cartography.
"Collecting Our History" runs from January 20 to May 16 in Special Collections, located on the 6th floor of UT Arlington's Central Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Hours are 9am-7pm Mondays and 9am-5pm Tuesdays through Saturdays. Call (817) 272-6064 for more information.
- Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict in Maps, 1800-1900
August 25, 2008 - January 3, 2009
- The Exhibit focuses on Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century American West and will include numerous impressive smaller maps from UT Arlington's collections as well as some significant maps generously loaned by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University and a private collector.
Items on display include:
a manuscript map of Mexico relating to the
1803-1804 North American trip of Alexander von Humboldt, the German geographer, scientist, explorer, and intellectual genius of his time. Also on exhibit will be original printed maps of the period associated with other famous men of that century of conflict such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Zebulon Pike, Albert Gallatin, John C. Fremont, Zachary Taylor, William H. Emory, and John Wesley Powell.
Special Collections is on the sixth floor of Central Library. This exhibit will open on August 25 and run through January 3, 2009. It is free and open to the public. Special Collections hours are Monday 9am to 7pm and Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 5pm. For more information call all 817-272-3393 or email spcoref@uta.edu.
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The Reeder Children's Theatre Presents...Memories of Fort Worth's Reeder School
- Drawing on the extensive Dickson and Flora Reeder Papers and Reeder School Records, the journey begins with the origins of Reeder School and explores the selection, production, and performance of the school's plays as well as the students' immersion into the art, history, music, dance and culture of a play's era. Original hand-painted Reeder School costumes, headpieces, and props colorfully accent original play scripts, musical scores, programs, production notes, photographs, and costume and set design sketches. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between UT Arlington Special Collections manuscript archivist Brenda McClurkin, Information Literacy librarian Evelyn Barker, and Hip Pocket Theater producer and costume designer, Diane Simons.
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