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Texas Archives Month 2021 Poster - Documenting Disability History in Texas
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Texas Archives Document Disability History
Our historical collections reflect the spectrum of roles those with disabilities have played in American society. Texas archives also capture the ways in which governments, organizations, and institutions have identified, responded to, and provided resources for disabled individuals and groups. Of special note is the Texas Disability History Collection at the University of Texas at Arlington, where members of the university community were instrumental in advancing disability rights on college campuses.
Spotlight on Collections
Texas Disability History Collection (University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections)
https://library.uta.edu/txdisabilityhistory
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Archives (University of Texas at Austin Division of Diversity and Community Engagement)
https://hogg.utexas.edu/who-we-are/history
The Hogg Foundation: A Historical Perspective video
Presented by Bill Bush
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health 2016
Documentary: In a Strange Land video
As part of a larger campaign the reform and modernize the state hospital system in Texas, the Hogg Foundation presented its own vision for mental health services in April 1956, with the release of In a Strange Land.
C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department (University of Texas at El Paso)
Anita Blair 01. Samuel Fant photograph collection, PH058,
C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department.
The University of Texas at El Paso Library.
Anita Blair 02. Samuel Fant photograph collection, PH058,
C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department.
The University of Texas at El Paso Library.
Anita Blair (1916-2010), a safety activist elected to serve as a representative to the Texas state legislature in 1952, was the first blind woman elected to any state legislature in the United States.
Anita Blair Papers
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=finding_aid
Samuel Fant Photograph Collection:
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=finding_aid
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
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Texas Legislative Council, Study Committee on Programs for the Handicapped Public Hearing Audiotapes https://tsl.access.preservica.com/tda/texas-state-government/legislature/leg-council/#handicappedHearing
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Texas Department on Aging and Disability https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/30036.xml
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Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Records https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/10207.xml
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Texas School for the Deaf Minutes and Agenda https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/30131.xml
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Josephine T. Lamb Collection https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/80026.xml
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American Disabilities Act at 30: Out of the Stacks https://www.tsl.texas.gov/outofthestacks/americans-with-disabilities-act-at-30/
More Resources:
- Search Texas Archival Repositories Online (TARO) for related collections
TARO: https://txarchives.org/home
- Disability History Online Archival Resource Guide
UTA Libraries: https://libguides.uta.edu/oar/disability
- Documenting Disability in the Historical Record (Society of American Archivists)
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/accessibility-and-disability-section/documenting-disability-in-the-historical-record
The 2021 Texas Archives Month Poster features the following images:
- Harp Class for the Blind, Third Annual Tea, 1962. Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society Collection, Fort Worth Public Library Archives
http://www.fortworthtexasarchives.org/digital/collection/p16084coll24/id/50/rec/5
- Senator Criss Cole shaking hands with a guest at his Governor for a Day ceremony, January 10, 1970. Current Events Photographic Documentation Program collection, 1970/151-36. Texas State Library and Archives Commission https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/50110.xml
- Institute for the Blind, 1894 [Austin]. Artwork of Austin (Chicago: W.H. Parish Pub. Co., 1894), 1/2 26. Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Still image from the documentary, In a Strange Land, 1956. Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin
- Anita Blair 01, Samuel Fant photograph collection, PH058. C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, The University of Texas at El Paso
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=finding_aid
- [Jim Hayes with two unidentified athletes in wheelchairs], n.d. 10014501.
Texas Disability History Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections
https://library.uta.edu/txdisabilityhistory/img/10014501
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