The Special Collections Department has many collections that contain primary resources for borderlands history.
For a complete list of archival collections, go the list on the Finding Aids page.
Catholic Youth Organization Golden Glove Boxing Team, Casasola Studio photos, PH041-10-00111
Listed below are several examples.
Personal and family papers:
Burges-Perrenot family papers, MS262
Betty Mary Smith Goetting papers, MS316
Mario T. Garcia papers, MS290
Stevenson-Flores family papers, MS341
Cynthia Weber Farah Haines papers, MS319
Organizational records:
Woman's Club of El Paso records, MS576
Pan American Round Table records, MS526
MEChA Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Atzlán (El Paso) records, MS254
UTEP Collection, Student Government Association, MS001
Business records:
Southern Pacific Company (Rio Grande Division) records, MS077.
Chisos Mining Company records, MS044.
El Paso Herald-Post records, MS348. (Sports files are in a separate finding aid)
ASARCO (Historical records of the former El Paso ASARCOsmelter site), MS585.
Labor Advocate records, MS509.
Artificial Collections:
Festival Theater Collection, MS651.
Michael (Eugene Francis) El Paso menu collection, MS 499.
El Paso theater programs collection, MS359.
El Paso Players collection, MS573.
UTEP collection, MS001 (several departments and offices have separate finding aids)
Photographic collections:
Casasola Studio photos, PH041.
Samuel Fant Studio photographs, PH058
Stout-Feldman Studio photographs, PH074.
Leona Washington photograph collection, PH033.
Manuel Carrillo papers, MS288.
El Paso Times negatives, PH032.
Directories:
El Paso city directories, 1889- (early directories available at Portal to Texas History
El Paso phone books, 1921-
Oral Histories:
Over 1700 oral history interviews; many are online at https://scholarworks.utep.edu/oral_history/
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