Tag: archives
Conmemorando a la Comunidad
Conmemorando a la Comunidad: Latinx Experiences at Trinity University is a digital humanities project created during the summer of 2023 as a partnership between The Mexico, the Americas, and Spain…
San Antonio Archives Bazaar
In celebration of American Archives Month the San Antonio Regional Archivists (SARA) is hosting the first-ever San Antonio Archives Bazaar. The event will take place on Saturday, October 7th, 2023…
Faculty Research Spotlight with Professor Victoria Aarons
Welcome back Trinity community! As you walk through Starbucks you’ll notice three new posters highlighting some of the great research our Trinity faculty and students have published recently. Librarian Anne…
Texas Heritage Project
The Texas Heritage Project & Coates Library This post was contributed by Acacia Oyler ‘23, the AIT Intern in Special Collections & Archives for Spring 2023. As many students know…
Theater Posters & the Archives
Sometimes it feels like the university archives are bursting at the seams with print material from past events held on campus. When I was interviewing for the position one of…
Pranks, Hoaxes and Homo Sapiens
Have you planned a prank for April Fool’s Day? The San Antonio Zoo has a long history of pranking the city. On April 1, 1939, the San Antonio Light newspaper…
Tigers in a Winter Wonderland
In the meadow, we can build a snowman And pretend that he is LeeRoy Tiger… Do the colder temperatures have you dreaming of a snow day? We took a deep…
La Pastorela: A Christmas Treasure in Special Collections
San Miguel: Mortales! estad atentos! Un milagro grande lugar ha tenido cercano á este sitio que Dios ha escogido. Translated– Archangel Michael: Mortals! Be attentive! A great miracle has…
American Archives Month
Every October the archival community and repositories across the states celebrate American Archives Month. This is a way to spread awareness about the importance of archives and the value of…
Documenting San Antonio’s 1921 Flood
When a historian sets out to tell the story of an event, they typically begin by looking at primary sources: newspapers, diaries, letters, photographs–any sort of item that records what…