UT Color Slides Collection 1938-1965

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UT Color Slides Collection 1938-1965

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Images include UT campus buildings (mostly exteriors) and campus activities including the UT Round-up parade of 1938 and views of UT campus from Cambridge Tower, 1965.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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University of Texas.

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These slides were transferred to the Briscoe Center from the Harry Ransom Center in 2008. From the guide to the UT Color Slides Collection 2008-079., 1938-1965, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) These images were used for UT’s 75th Anniversary presentations in 1958. Many are copies of photographs in the Briscoe Center’s collections and are dated much earlier than the reproductions in this collection. From the guide to ...

University of Texas at Austin.

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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...