publications (documents)

Abstract Papers of Emilio Zamora, a leading scholar of Mexican American, Chicano, and Texas history and former member of the Raza Unida Party (RUP). Zamora has taught and served as coordinator and director of various ethnic studies programs, including at Texas A&I University, Kingsville (now Texas A&M), the University of California Los Angeles, Juárez-Lincoln University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has authored three books and published dozens of academic articles and essays....

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Ford, Powell & Carson is an architecture, urban planning, and historic preservation firm based in San Antonio, Texas. This collection contains project files, office records, and drawings related to work undertaken by the firm since 1967, as well as some material from the firm’s predecessor, O’Neil Ford & Associates before 1967. Record types include architectural drawings, project files, sketches, reports, master plans, office records, audiovisual material, and publications.

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Lucy T. Shoe Meritt began her career as a student, teacher, and scholar of classical archaeology and architecture in 1915. The collection consists of documents reflecting her many publications (at different stages of publication), drawings separate from publications, correspondence, personal papers, photographic material (including slides) separate from publications, oral history audiocassettes, and miscellaneous other material.

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Thomas A. Pressly, Jr., educated in Virginia and Texas, was head of the architectural firm Thomas A. Pressly, Jr. A.I.A. in San Antonio. After his retirement he devoted himself to professional painting. The Thomas A. Pressly, Jr. collection includes papers, and photographic prints.

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The Urban Innovations Group, founded in 1971, was a teaching practice at The University of California, Los Angeles' Architecture and Urban Design School. The collection primarily documents the group's work on various buildings and urban spaces throughout Los Angeles and the United States. Record types include project records, photographs, drawings, slides, and publications.