Benson out and about
Culhuacán (MEXICATZINGO). Mexico. Jan. 17,1580. 70×54 cm. The Benson Latin American Collection is sharing its unique holdings with our crosstown public partner through an exhibit featured at the...
View ArticleBenson Goes for Baroque
Iglesia de Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla. Caroyln Brown. The extravagance of the Baroque period in Spanish America is currently on display in an exhibition at the Benson Latin American Collection....
View ArticleA View Through the Student Lens
Dark clouds gathered in the late afternoon sky in anticipation of the last storm of the summer. Inside, a DJ set the needle down on the 45-rpm version of a Jorge Ben classic just as the rain began to...
View ArticlePre-Mod Pre-Med: Typhus, Bloodletting, and Sasparilla
Francisco Bravo’s “Opera Medicinalia” (1570). With the Dell Medical School’s inaugural class set to arrive in 2016, it’s only fitting that one of our most innovative archiving projects should get a...
View ArticleSor Juana’s “Book of Professions”
“Libro de professiones y elecciones de prioras y vicarias del convento de San Gerónimo, 1586–1713.” Ink and blood on paper. 8 x 12 inches. Dorothy Schons Papers, Benson Latin American Collection. Sor...
View ArticleChat with a Rwandan Youth Leader
Aegis Trust Youth Ambassador Dydine Umunyana. Photo by Christian Kelleher. For a little over two weeks in January and February, UT Libraries was the home base for a visit by Rwandan Dydine Umunyana who...
View ArticlePlaques Unveiled to Honor Lozano Long and Benson
LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections celebrated the memory of Dr. Nettie Lee Benson and the achievements and generosity of Dr. Teresa Lozano Long at the unveiling of two bronze plaques...
View ArticleHerzstein Legacy Survives in Benson Collection
Robert E. Herzstein Attorney Robert E. Herzstein recently passed away at the age of 83. Herzstein served as lead counsel to Mexico in negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),...
View ArticleLiterature on a String
Modern forms of independent publishing like zines owe a debt not only to the likes of Thomas Paine, but also to popular types of cultural or regional publications that emerged from a desire to capture...
View ArticleThe Libraries and García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez working on “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Credit: Guillermo Angulo/Harry Ransom Center As the university wraps up this year’s Fleur Cowles Symposium “Gabriel García Márquez:...
View ArticleThe Art of Carmen Lomas Garza
Tamalada (2003) by Carmen Lomas Garza.IRIS giclée digital print on paper, 4/180. Benson Latin American Collection. Born in 1948, much of Carmen Lomas Garza’s work reflects upon her formative years in...
View ArticleCollections Highlight: Port of Acapulco, 1638
Alejandro RuffoniPuerto de Acapulco en el Reino de la Nueva Expaña en el Mar del Sur1628lithograph17 x 22 in.Genaro García CollectionBenson Latin American Collection A facsimile reproduction made in...
View ArticleCollections Highlight: The Memoirs of Santa Anna
Antonio López de Santa Anna. “Mis memorias, escritas de mi puño y letra sin ayuda de nadie,en mi último destierro,” 1872. Paper. 12 x 7 in. Genaro Garcìa Collection, Benson Latin American Collection....
View ArticleCollections Highlight: Carlos Villalongín Dramatic Company
From the Carlos Villalongín Dramatic Company Records. Benson Latin American Collection. Founded in Jalisco, Mexico in 1849, the Carlos Villalongín Dramatic Company (also known as Compañía Cómico...
View ArticleCollecting the Black Experience
A year ago, Rachel E. Winston joined the staff of the Benson Latin American Collection, taking on an entirely new post with the library as its Black Diaspora Archivist. The position is still one of...
View ArticleCollection Highlight: The Carlos Eduardo Castañeda Papers
Historian, archivist, educator Carlos E. Castañeda was born November 11, 1896, in Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. His father was a professor of French and government at the College of San Juan in...
View ArticleAlicia Gaspar de Alba Donates Archive to the Benson Collection
BY DANIEL ARBINO The Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Alicia Gaspar de Alba Papers. Contents include drafts of creative works such as Calligraphy of the...
View ArticleScholar Takes an Intimate Look at Mexican Author María Luisa Puga
On February 15, LLILAS Benson celebrated the opening of the literary archive of Mexican author María Luisa Puga (1944–2004). This unusual archive is replete with the author’s voice and vision,...
View ArticleCollections Highlight: Typus Cosmographicus Universalis
In this important world map, the extent of North America and the distance across the Pacific Ocean are hardly understood while the outline of South America is better represented. The cartography is...
View ArticleLegacy of Art Historian Jacqueline Barnitz to Be Celebrated with Remembrance...
The Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archive of Jacqueline Barnitz (1923–2017). The life and collection of the late art historian and professor emeritus...
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