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The building is named in honor of Lorenzo de Zavala, a statesman in Texas history. Built in 1959 and inaugurated in 1961, [3] the building houses the headquarters of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and is located east of and adjacent to the Texas State Capitol, and made of the same pink granite as the capitol building. [4]
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) refers to the state government agency in the state of Texas that supports the reading, learning, and historical preservation needs of Texas and its people. The agency is charged with preserving the archival record of Texas, supporting research, and making primary resources available to the ...
Dallas County Courthouse - Old Red Museum. The list of museums in North Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
He is the author of Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, [19] published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2013. The book highlights the decades-long work of people determined to create a museum that commemorates a president and recalls the drama and heartbreak of November 22, 1963.
Before Bush became president, officials at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, started to work on a bid for the library.They believed that their proximity to his ranch in Crawford and their location within 100 miles (160 km) of Austin, Dallas and the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area gave them a good shot at winning such a project.
The Dal-Tex Building is a seven-story office building located at 501 Elm Street in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States.The building is on the northeast corner of Elm and North Houston streets, across the street from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, the scene of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History at Smith College; South Texas Archives and Special Collections; Southern Historical Collection; Ukrainian Museum-Archives; Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs; Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive; Washington University Film & Media Archive; Many presidential ...
The Adrian Flatt hand collection is a collection of plaster and bronze casts of human hands on display at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.The casts were created by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adrian Flatt (1921—2017), and the collection features the hands of various former United States presidents, actors, athletes, scientists, musicians, artists, astronauts, and other ...