The Texas Collection

05/29/2026

Our latest blog post from the BCPM is by seminary student Yeshi Lhamo on the impact of finding something unexpected in the archives.

(BCPM) The Day Women’s Equality Was Still Uncertain by Eric Ames on May 29, 2026 in BCPM at Poage Library • 0 Comments This blog post was written by graduate assistant Yeshi Lhamo, a master’s student at Truett Seminary. I went into the archive thinking I would write about women’s curre...

05/28/2026

We are excited to officially announce the acquisition of three-term Waco city councilman Josh Borderud’s archives! The materials – including correspondence, social media posts, and official paper documents – help illustrate his almost six years in office, starting in November of 2020 and concluding at the start of this month. Borderud's archives are among a growing list of local collections, including those of former Waco Mayor Mike Morrison and McLennan County Commissioner Lester Gibson.

Participating in the signing ceremony were Borderud; his wife, Jennifer; and Jeff Pirtle, Director of the Texas Collection, where the archives will live in the Baylor Collections of Political Materials after they have been organized and processed. They will be made available for research at a later date, but until then, join us in congratulating Josh Borderud on an impactful term of service to Waco and Central Texas!

05/08/2026

Spring '26 finals are off and running, and nothing shows how much "the more things change, the more they stay the same" like this photo of students studying in Carroll Library!

This photograph taken on May 13, 1968, shows Baylor students studying inside of Carroll Library, Baylor University. The image was taken by Baylor University Photography.

Physical Collection: BU Records: Marketing and Communications: Baylor Photography, Accession .382, Box: Black_E_1202, 35mm film negative, The Texas Collection, Baylor University

Digital ID: tx-phoarch-neg_bu382_002818

04/30/2026

This photograph from 1946 shows the former Baylor University Journalism Building on Speight Street, across from the F.L. Carroll Chapel and Library.

ID:
Baylor-Buildings-Journalism-Building

Source:
TC #4031 - General Film Collection, Digital ID: tx-phoarch-neg_4031_003916, The Texas Collection, Baylor University

04/21/2026

Shout out to our student workers!!😁
Sending a HUGE thank you! We appreciate you and the work you do. We hope you had a great Student Appreciation week!

04/17/2026

This photograph from 1988 shows Baylor University students at the Hankamer School of Business using IBM Personal Computers.

Physical Collection: BU Records: Marketing and Communications: Baylor Photography, Accession .382, Box: E_165, Slides

Digital ID:tx-phoarch-sld_bu382_002861

03/27/2026

We're returning to one of our most popular recent posts - and the 1970s - with this week's random photo post!

These photographs show the interiors and a candid shot of a Baylor student inside of the Riverside Apartments dating to circa 1976. Baylor University built Riverside Apartments in the 1940s for married students and single men. They were located at the corner of University Parks Drive and Jones Street where they remained until 1980-1981.

Sources: General Photo File .3976, Baylor-Buildings-Riverside Apartments, Box 42, Folder 17; Digital ID's: tx-phoarch-pho_3976-bu-bls_003403; tx-phoarch-pho_3976-bu-bls_003404; fb_tx-phoarch-pho_3976-bu-bls_003405.

"Baylor Landing Rises from Riverside Ruins." The Baylor Lariat, vol. 83, no. 7, 26 Mar. 1981.

03/23/2026

Our blog post this week was written by Emma Fenske, PhD candidate in the History Department. She explores books found in W. R. Poage's personal library that were written by female authors. https://blogs.baylor.edu/baylorlibraries/2026/03/19/bcpm-w-r-poages-bookshelf-female-authors-in-his-personal-collection/

02/21/2026

This photograph taken by Fred Gildersleeve in circa 1914, shows a large student group at Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas. The school was once located at 1020 Elm Avenue, Waco, Texas. This African American institution has its origins in Austin, Texas, beginning in 1872, as the Connectional High School and Institute for Negro Youth. When it moved to Waco in 1877, on 8th and Mary Streets, it was known as Waco College and taught trades such as blacksmithing, carpentry, and tanning to newly freed slaves.

It became Paul Quinn College in 1881, and was named after Bishop William Paul Quinn, the fourth Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was then relocated to Elm Avenue in east Waco on 20 acres of land that was once part of the Garrison Plantation. By 1979, the operating budget of the college was 2.5 million dollars and was funded by the A.M.E. Church, United Negro College Fund, federal funding, and private donations. In 1990, Paul Quinn College moved to Dallas, Texas, where it is still in operation to this day and is the oldest liberal arts college for African Americans in the state of Texas.
This image was created by digitizing Fred Gildersleeve’s original 8x10-inch glass plate negative from the Gildersleeve-Du Congé Collection #1149, located in The Texas Collection, Baylor University. Digital Image ID: tx-gildersleeve-1149-pho_b001-f07-i689.

02/20/2026

We want to say a huge congratulations to The Texas Collection winner from the Heart of Texas Regional History Fair, Abigail Wickman and her project "From Convicts to Cowboys: The Texan Prison Rodeo." Way to go Abigail!! 🥳