More than 170 million cultural artifacts fill the university’s repositories, outdoing many of the largest collections in the nation. But people don’t have to...
We’ve dug deep into the Alcalde archives to bring you historical campus news. The events described below actually happened.*
by Uriah T. Schrivner
Campus nightowls...
Believed to be the earliest color images taken on campus, these photos are the handiwork of UT physics professor and photography enthusiast John Matthias Kuehne...
A firefighter’s helmet handed over as a token of thanks to a man who gave generously to relief efforts after the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West,...
J.D. Salinger may have led a private life, but even a century’s time couldn’t hide the extent of his talent. UT’s world-class humanities archive, the...
UT’s Harry Ransom Center has long been an archival powerhouse that draws scholars from around the globe, with holdings including an original Gutenberg Bible...
In the 1960s, J. M. Coetzee was a UT graduate student, poring over Samuel Beckett archives at the Harry Ransom Center. Today, he’s a Nobel Prize-winning author...
Here’s a gem from the Alcalde photo archives.
We were intrigued by this image and its caption, which reads “Thomas Aguirre (mascot) and Cheerleader Jeannie...
