New Acquisitions for March 2012
Page from one of Bartlett Cocke's sketchbooks, MS 391. UTSA Special Collections. Bartlett Cocke (1901-1922) designed numerous private residences and public buildings in San Antonio and served as the deputy district officer of West Texas for the Historic American Buildings Survey during the Great Depression.
Manuscript Collections:
New:
- MS 391 Cocke (Bartlett) sketchbooks, 3 sketchbooks, 1.5 linear feet
Additions:
- MS 022 Women’s Overseas Service League Records, 1 dvd, .1 linear foot
University Archives:
Additions:
- UA 14.01 UTSA, Center for Archaeological Research, 7 boxes of publications, 6.75 linear feet
- UA 04.02.02 UTSA, Facilities, Office of, 12 oversized architectural plans and campus aerial, 12 plans
- UA 04.03.01 UTSA Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, 3 oversized plans, 3 plans
Rare Books: 3 titles [March Acquisitions]
La guerra sintética; novela del ambiente Mejicanoby Gram [David G. Ramirez](1937).This Spanish-language novel about the Cristero War was written by Mexican priest David G. Ramirez and published in San Antonio. Ramirez came to San Antonio in the 1920s and lived here for about a decade. The Cristero War (also called the Cristero Rebellion) from 1926-1929 was a popular movement that developed in response to anticlerical legislation and actions from the administration of President Plutarco Elías Calles’. Primarily affecting western Mexico, the movement may have involved up to 50,000 rebels at its height and came to include many individuals motivated not only by the religious issues at stake, but by frustration with insufficient land and the increasingly powerful (and intrusive) central government.
Coerver, Don M., Suzanne B. Pasztor, and Robert Buffington. “Cristero Rebellion”. Mexico : An Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Culture And History. ABC-CLIO, 2004. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 3 Apr. 2012. Pp. 130-131.
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