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Using Collections - Card Catalogs

A few of the sources cited are not part of the Center's holdings.

Additional finding aids are available on the reference shelves in the reading room. Please ask a member of the information services staff for assistance.

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A Archives and Manuscripts Register

Register of archival records and unpublished personal papers arranged by collection title. Subject and personal name index to archives and manuscripts collections in notebooks. Guide to the University of Texas Archives available. Register includes separate drawers for UT Press Manuscripts, Oral History of the Oil Industry, WPA Historical Records Survey, Texas Music Collection, Carl Venth Collection, Frank Brown's Annals of Travis County, and William Pitt Ballinger Papers.

B Broadsides Collection

Texas, U.S. and foreign broadsides, arranged chronologically.

C Nacogdoches Archives Index

Personal name index to individuals mentioned in the Nacogdoches Archives, 1731-1836. Citations are to volume and page numbers in the typed transcripts.

D Texas Telephone and City Directories

Checklist of directories, including cross-references for small towns, late 1800s to present.

E Microfilm

Title and subject listing of non-microfilm holdings.

F Maps

Register of maps, listed by geographical region, name of cartographer/publisher, and by map collection title.

G Texas Census Index, 1850 and 1860

Personal name index to the U.S. Census for Texas, 1850 and 1860. The index for 1860 is incomplete.

H General Reference Index

Personal name and subject index to articles in periodical literature pertaining to Texas through 1998.

H.2 Selected Journal Index

Name and subject access to Texas periodicals not indexed electronically, 1998-

I Vertical Files

Biographical and subject clippings file listings. Refer to color key at front of each drawer in order to request file by major category (e.g. Texas museums, Texas authors). Not updated since 2002.

Index to Vertical Files and Vertical File Scrapbooks is now searchable online.

J Texas Collection Library - Author/Title Catalog

Books and periodical publications listed by author and title interfiled. NOTE: titles acquired appear only in UTCAT, the online catalog. A UTCAT terminal is available in the information services area.

K Texas Collection Library - Subject Catalog

Books and periodical publications listed by subject headings. Titles acquired since 1985 appear only in UTCAT , the online catalog.

L Texas Newspapers

Register of newspapers, arranged by city of publication and then by newspaper title. Cards indicate specific issues owned. NOTE: this file is not current. Current titles lists appear in notebooks on table. Specific issues information is not available for all titles.

M C.L. Greenwood Indexes

Index to biographical sketches appearing in books and to persons cited in marriage and obituary notices in selected Texas Newspapers from 1850 to 1900.

N Index to Selected Newspapers

Biographical and subject indexes to selected Texas newspapers, 1829-1936.