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Manuscript Collections:
Additions:
• MS 276, Carter (Emma Martin) papers, .1 linear feet
• MS 022, Women’s Overseas Service League records, .25 linear feet
• MS 346, C.O.P.S./Metro Alliance Records, 13 linear feet

University Archives:
New:
• UA 04.02.04, UTSA. Human Resources, 7 linear feet
• UA 99.00.17, HTSA. Papers of Faculty and Staff: Davis, Dewey and Ruth, .1 linear feet.
Additions:
• UA 15.01.09, UTSA. ITC. Texas Folklife Festival, 1 linear foot
• UA 15.01, UTSA. Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC), 4 linear feet

Rare Books
Spc.bks
Mexican Food/Cooking
Manuscript recipe book. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Bea and Peter Siegel Books.
Reeves, Bette Cornell, ed.. Ole! S.A.: Old San Antonio style recipes. Lazy Susan, Inc., 198-.
Juárez López, José Luis. Recetario conmemorativo 2010. México : Secretaría de Educación Pública, 2010.

Mexican History
Mayer, Brantz. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican : a historical, geographical, political, statistical and social account of that country from the period of the invasion by the Spaniards to the present time, with a view of the ancient Aztec empire and civilization. Hartford: S. Drake, 1852.
México Dirección de Colonización é Industria. Memoria de la Dirección de Colonización é Industria. Año de 1849. México: Vicente G. Torres, 1850.
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Estudios y documentos para la historia del arte colonial. Buenos Aires.

San Antonio Authors
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Close to the heart. Avalon Books, 1991.
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Alicia’s treasure. Piñata Books, 1996.
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. F factor. Piñata Books, 2010
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Family. Piñata Books, 1999.
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Party for Papá Luis. Piñata Books/Arte Publico Press, 2010.
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. My pal, Victor. Raven Tree Press, 2011
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Black Mirror. Scholastic, 2003.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Baby Radar. Greenwillow Books, 2008
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Honeybee: poems & short prose. Greenwillow Books, 2008

Texas/Mexico Border
Slocum, George Mertz. Where Tex Meets Mex: a report of recent ramblings on both sides of the Rio Grande. Rural Publishing Company, 1927
Smithers, Wilfred Dudley. Pancho Villa’s Last Hangout on Both Sides of the Rio Grande in the Big Bend Country. Alpine: s.n. [1964?]

Texas Cooking
Whataburger Coffee Table Book

Women in Central/South Texas
Andrus, Pearl. Juana: Spanish girl in central Texas.
Holland, Ada Morehead. Brush Country Woman. Texas A&M University Press, 1988.

Spc.apr
San Antonio Authors
Brode, Douglas and Joe Orsak (illustrator). Yellow Rose of Texas: the myth of Emily Morgan. McFarland & Co., 2010.

San Antonio History and Culture
McNay Art Museum: An Introduction. Scala Books, 2011

South Texas History and Culture
Dearen, Patrick. Devils River: treacherous twin to the Pecos. Texas Christian University Press, 2011.
McCaslin, Richard. Fighting Stock : John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas. Texas Christian University Press, 2011.

by Shannon Keith

Have you ever wondered as you drive up James Bauerle Boulevard or walked in to the Margaret Batts Tobin Laboratory Building, “Who are the people behind the names we see every day on the UTSA campus?” The staff in Special Collections will answer that question in a series of Top Shelf posts. If there is someone in particular you would like to hear about, leave us a comment and we’ll address it in a future post.

John Peace, 1973.

John Peace Library Under Construction, 1974.

Who’s better to start with than the namesake of the building I work in every day: John R. Peace II? A lawyer and active member of the San Antonio community, Peace joined the Board of Regents of the University of Texas system in 1967 and served as the board chairman between 1971 and 1973. During his tenure, he advocated for the establishment of the University of Texas at San Antonio. He continued his involvement in the University after its establishment in 1969, and donated his own collection of Texana including 900 books and 500 documents to the UTSA Library in 1973. Those items are now available to the public in the UTSA Library’s Special Collections. Two years after his death in 1974, the University opened the doors of the John Peace Library building.

Ruby McGee Peace (wife), John Peace III, and Lillie Ellen (Stack) Peace (mother) at the opening of the John Peace Collection at the Library, 1978.

Bibliography

Joe B. Frantz, “PEACE, JOHN ROBERT,” Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articl*s/fpe01), accessed May 24, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

“John Peace Collection to be Exhibited.” The Road Runner. June 11, 1979. http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15125coll7/id/393

“Buildings Open to Students.” UTSA Bulletin, July, 1976. http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15125coll7/id/2286/show/2284

Photo Credits

Gil Barrera Photographs of the University of Texas at San Antonio, 1972-1978, MS 27, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.

Manuscript Collections:
New:
• MS 351, Whitmore (Eugene) collection, .083 linear feet
• MS 350, Rainbow Garden Club records, .25 linear feet
Additions:
• MS 348, Killis Almond and Associates, 90 linear feet
• MS 004, San Antonio Chapter of Hadassah records, .75 linear feet
• MS 331, San Antonio River Authority Records, 10 linear feet

University Archives:
Additions:
• UA 04.01 UTSA. Office of the Pres., 22 linear feet
• UA 19.02 UTSA. Office of Student Affairs, 1 linear foot
• UA 21 UTSA. Office of Information Technology, 3 linear feet
• UA 16.03 UTSA. Office of University Advancement, 1 linear foot

Rare Books
Spc.bks
Architecture and Design
Portfolio of plates: architectural details in brickwork. American Face Brick Association. Not dated.
Garlinghouse ranch & suburban homes. L.F. Garlinghouse Co., c. 1953.
Kirsch. Rod and Window Draping Book. The Cargill Co. Printers, 1921.

Hydrogeology, and Water Resource Management
Upper Rio Grande Basin: water and related land resources-Appendix II. U.S.D.A, 1976.

Mexican History
Iturriaga, Manuel. Questiones academicas, que ofrece reverente el rector del real Colegio de San Fransicso la ciudad de Queretaro al Exmo. Mexico: Por D. Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros.
Ximeno, Joseì. Representación de los cosecheros del pulque al honorable congreso del Estado de México. Meìxico : Impr. del aguila, dirigida por Joseì Ximeno, 1828.

San Antonio Authors
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Different ways to pray : poems. Breitenbush Publications, 1980.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti’s secrets. Four Winds Press, c1994.

Spc.apr (Gobi/YBP)
South Texas Culture
Williams, C. Herndon. Texas Gulf Coast Stories. History Press, 2010.

Kar.apr (Karno Cookbooks)Mexican Food and Cooking
Chapa, Martha. Con sabor a patria : chiles en nogada para toda la temporada. Martha Chapa y Alejandro Ordorica, c2005.
Velázquez de León, Josefina. Cocina criolla de Nueva Orleans Meìxico: Editorial Velaìzquez de Leoìn, 1952.
Asensio Ortega, Enrique and Ruiz Solaguren, Joseì Luis. Quaderno de guisados caseros. Meìxico : El Parador de Joseì Luis, c1979.

GiftsMexican Food and Cooking
Hernandez, Elizabeth Sanchez. How to eat out in Mexico: how to understand the menu and make yourself understood: dictionary and phrase book for the restaurant. Rome: Gremese, 1999
Wild About Southwest Cooking. Nashville: Favorite Recipes Press, c1994.
Verti, Sebastian. Tradiciones mexicanas. Meìxico: Editorial Diana, 1992.
Jamison, Cheryll Alters and Bill Jamison. The Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook: The Traditional Cooking of New Mexico. Boston: Harvard Common Press, c1991.
Casey, Clyde. New Mexico Cooking: Southwestern Flavors of the Past and Present. Tucson: Fisher Books, 1996.
Milton, Jane. The chili-hot Mexican cookbook: sizzling dishes from Mexico, with 90 classic chili recipes shown step by step in over 390 photographs. London: Southwater, 2009.

UTSA Special Collection recently acquired a small collection from San Antonio’s Rainbow Garden Club. The Rainbow Garden Club is an LGBT organization devoted to broadening member’s knowledge about plants, gardening and landscape design.

The club was founded in 1996 in San Antonio, Texas. Meetings usually take place on Saturday or Sunday at 11:00 am on the second or third weekend of each month and are held in members’ homes, but are occasionally held at other locations of interest, such as the San Antonio Botanical Gardens or The Antique Rose Emporium. Each meeting consists of a brief review of club business, a presentation by a guest speaker on various garden related topics, followed by a pot luck lunch, where each member brings a covered dish to share with the group.

The bulk of the collection is an incomplete run of the Rainbow Garden Club’s newsletter, Rainbow Gazette, which we are hoping to flesh out through donations from other club members. The club began distributing their newsletter electronically in 2004 and we are also hoping to acquire those digital files in a future donation from the newsletter editor, Sir Oliver Smith. Also included in the collection are membership materials and select correspondence and meeting minutes.

A guide to the Rainbow Garden Club Records can be found on TARO at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00284/utsa-00284.html and additional information about the Rainbow Garden Club can be found on their on their Yahoo Groups page - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rainbowgazette/