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The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. [1] Many of the maps in the collection have been scanned and are available online, and most of these maps are public domain. [2] The collection includes maps of special interest: Afghanistan
Houses the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Barker Texas History Collections, Benson Latin American Collection, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Public Affairs (Wasserman) Library, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service: George I. Sanchez ...
A number of revivals were held in Lebanon during the 1890s, sometimes attracting as many as 600 people from communities in Live Oak and Bee Counties. Circa 1920, the church was moved to Cadiz, a nearby town in Bee County, and by 1940 Lebanon's Methodist congregation had been disbanded. A map drawn in the late 1930s shows only a graveyard at the ...
Brands under the company included Henry Grethel, The Vera Companies, John Henry, Perry Ellis, Lady Manhattan, the Union Company specialty stores in Ohio, and Frost Bros. [1] specialty stores in Texas. [citation needed]. The company incorporated in 1912. It had garment factories employing mostly women in several states.
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of the University of Texas at Austin named for Dolph Briscoe, the 41st governor of Texas. The center collects and preserves documents and artifacts of key themes in Texas and United States history and makes the items available to researchers.
The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.
On January 31, 1860, wanting to avoid raising taxes, the legislature authorized the funds for the University of Texas. [7] Article 7, Section 11 of the 1876 Constitution established the Permanent University Fund (PUF), a sovereign wealth fund managed by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, dedicated to the university's maintenance ...
[20] On March 6, 1967, Texas governor John Connally signed into law a bill whicht renamed each UT System university "the University of Texas at [location]". Unlike the previous plan of the Texas A&M University System to rename ASC "Texas A&M University at Arlington", UTA's new name was received positively by students, faculty, and administrators.