Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of
Research and Collections Division
The Research and Collections Division is located on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Research and Collections administers the center's main research facility and is the repository for most of the center's books, documents, photographs, sound, and ephemera collections. It was comprehensively renovated in 2017.
Sam Rayburn Museum
The Sam Rayburn Museum is located in Bonham. It contains exhibits documenting the life and career of former Texas congressman and longest-serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Sam Rayburn (1940–1947, 1949–1953, and 1955–1961). The Rayburn Museum became a division of the Briscoe Center in 1991 and is open free to the public.
Briscoe-Garner Museum
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Winedale
Winedale is a complex of nineteenth-century structures and modern facilities situated on 225 acres of land near Round Top. Winedale offers examples of early Texas architecture and crafts, an interpretive center, continuing education seminars and other public programs.
Miss Ima Hogg visited the site weekly for review of the project with John Young, a recent architectural graduate of Rice University, who was engaged by Miss Hogg to manage the restoration, perform historical research, hire and train local workers in restoration skills, procure materials, design property plans and prepare progress reports (now in the University of Texas Library). Local workers supervised by Newton Peschel were Newton Vokel, Martin Bartels and Thomas Smith. A mason, Mr. Yoakum, constructed foundations and chimneys.[1][2][3]
See also
- Benson Latin American Collection
- List of museums in Central Texas
- List of museums in North Texas
- Archives of American Mathematics
References
- ^ Young, John. "Buildings of the Winedale Inn Complex." Historic Preservation Project and Report, University of Texas Library, Austin. 1963.
- ^ Shuffler, R. Henderson. "Winedale Inn." The Texas Quarterly, Austin, TX. Summer 1965.
- ^ "Winedale Inn: Formal Dedication 1967." Texas Architect, Austin, TX. May 1967.
Further reading
- Adams, Katherine J. (May 3, 2016). "Dolph Briscoe Center for American History". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- Battle, William J. (April 1956). "A Note on the Barker Texas History Center". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 59 (4): 498–501. JSTOR 30235253.
- Carleton, Don E.; Adams, Katherine J. (October 1982). ""A Work Peculiarly Our Own": Origins of the Barker Texas History Center, 1883–1950". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 86 (2): 197–230. JSTOR 30239772.
- Cox, Patrick L. (2013). Hendrickson, Jr., Kenneth E. (ed.). Writing the Story of Texas. Austin: University of Texas University Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74537-7.
- Crawford, Ann Fears; Ragsdale, Crystal Sasse (1998). "Nettie Lee Benson". Texas Women: Frontier to Future. Austin: State House Press. pp. 173–185. ISBN 1-880510-52-9.
- Davis, Vincent T. (October 15, 2019). "San Antonio residents seek roots at Spanish Archives, glimpse of early Hispanic history". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- Gilland, Julianne; Guy, Melissa; Polk, Melissa E. (2019). "Collections as Colloborators". Latin American Collection Concepts: Essays on Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. pp. 77–86. ISBN 978-1-4766-6759-1.
- McLean, Malcolm D. (April 1947). "The Bexar Archives". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 50 (4): 493–496. JSTOR 30237494.
- Taylor, Lonn (July 2013). "Ima Hogg and the Historic Preservation Movement in Texas, 1950–1975". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 117 (1): 1–25. S2CID 143989119.
- "Bring the Bexar Archives back home". San Antonio Express-News. February 18, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
External links
- Official website
- "Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site". Texas Historical Commission. Retrieved March 2, 2020.