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Collections
The Briscoe Center is a history research center with few peers. Our archival, artifact, and library collections contain historical treasures documenting key themes in Texas and U.S. history. These treasures echo with stories of the people, places, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's history. The collections represented on this page contain audio/visual media enriched with access tools such as searchable transcripts, indexes, table of contents, geographical data, and others. These tools, now synchronized to the audio/visual content, allow you to navigate the hours of content in creative ways.
|  Bob Bailey Studios Photographic ArchiveThe Bob Bailey Studios Photographic Archive provides a visual history of life in Houston from the 1930s through the 1990s. The archive includes images, still and moving,
of politicians and celebrities, the oil and auto industries, aerial views of downtown Houston, local movie palaces, and department stores. |  Braniff Airlines FilmThe 16mm color Braniff Airlines Film, 1967, contains a 60-second advertisement, entitled Chefs, produced for Braniff International by Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc. | |  ExxonMobil Historical CollectionComprised of an estimated 4 million documents, 1.5 million photographs, 4,000 artifacts, and well over 30,000 moving image and sound recordings, the ExxonMobil Historical
Collection is arguably the largest publicly available collection documenting a single petroleum company. |  Frances Goff PapersFrances Goff was the first personnel director of the Texas Railroad Commission, served as secretary to a Texas state legislator and Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, and worked
as the director for the Texas Bluebonnet Girls' State program and director of special projects for M.D. Anderson. Audio tapes, video tapes and films document her life and
career. |  James Leonard, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer PapersThe Farmer Papers documents the Farmers' professional and personal involvement in the U.S. civil rights movement and four organizations founded by James Farmer, including
the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). |  Joe M. Kilgore PapersJoe Madison Kilgore (1918-1999) was born in Brown County, Texas and grew up in Rising Star and Mission, Texas. He served as a Democrat in the Texas State House of
Representatives (1947-1954) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1955-1965). Motion picture film reels and sound recordings document his political career in the Texas State House of
Representatives and in the U.S. House of Representatives. |  KLRU-TEMP Videotape CollectionThe KLRU-TEMP [Texas Educational Media Program] initiative was a collaboration between Walter Prescott Webb and Joe Frantz of the University of Texas Department of
History and the Radio/Television Department, who did all the production work. The basic idea was to bring to Austin all the greatest names in various fields of American history and tape them in
two or three 30-minute lectures that could then be used in classes at UT and other Texas schools. |  Lower Colorado River Authority Film and Video CollectionThe Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Film and Video Collection, 1936-1937, documents the early work of the LCRA and flooding in Austin, Texas. Four silent 16 mm film
reels (1936-1937) illustrate the construction of Buchanan Dam and Inks Dam in 1937, including the presence of Texas politicians Harold Ickes, Tom Miller, and Alvin J. Wirtz at tours and
groundbreakings. Additionally, the films show sites flooded by the Colorado River in 1936, such as the uncompleted Buchanan Dam, Austin Dam, Marble Falls, Barton Springs, and various
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"Inventing the West" Videotape
Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Legacy Project Records
