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Southwestern Collection
Our friends Shelly and Richard Morrison of W. M. Morrison Books
in Austin have come out with another in their fine series of reference
publications that are so valuable to scholars and collectors of Texana:
Nineteenth-Century Texana: A Priced Checklist of Books and Pamphlets Relat-
ing to Texas Published before Igoo. Drawing on a number of books, bibli-
ographies, and catalogs, the Morrisons have put together this handy,
priced checklist that gives the reader a good idea of the rarity, avail-
ability, and current price of books and pamphlets on Texas subjects
published before the turn of the century. Although they warn that this
work is not intended to be a comprehensive checklist of every last book
or pamphlet, and that the price information should be used with cau-
tion in the sometimes volatile rare book market, the Morrisons have
put together a very thorough and reliable guide to nineteenth-century
Texana that will be of interest to many readers, students, and buyers.
To order a copy or get more information, contact the authors at 15801
La Hacienda, Austin 78734; 512/266-3381.
Accessions
The Center for American History (which includes the Barker Texas
History Center) at the University of Texas at Austin has announced
three very different new archival collections under its roof. The first is
the Field Foundation Archives, approximately 400 linear feet of institu-
tional archives from the Field Foundation, a philanthropic organiza-
tion that distributed millions of dollars to promote social and economic
change in America during the last fifty years. The New York-based
foundation was established in 1940 by Marshall Field III, a lawyer and
publisher who was the grandson of the founder of the famous depart-
ment store. The foundation provided support to organizations pro-
moting civil rights, civil liberties, and child welfare and to other groups
and individuals working for social change. Preferring to "go out with a
bang and not a whimper," the foundation spent itself out of existence
in 1988. The Field Foundation Archives is unique and historically im-
portant because it thoroughly documents a wide-ranging list of move-
ments and groups involved in political action over the last half century.
The center was seen as the appropriate place to maintain the archives
since the foundation did much of its work in the South, was a major
supporter of the Mexican American civil rights movement (particularly
in Texas), and contributed to the work of Texan James Farmer, na-
tional director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Also, the
close proximity of the LBJ Library and Archives and the Benson Latin525
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