Thomason Room: Book Collection

The Thomason Book Collection consists of rare books, fine bindings, special subject and special author collections. Individual titles of books housed in the Thomason Room can be identified by searching the online catalog.

Texana: a collection begun by Dr. Joseph Clark

Porter Civil War Collection

Shettles Collection: books on exploration, travel, crime and criminals, religion and the Civil War, especially books about, and printed in, the Confederacy.

Special Author Collections

Mark Twain
Gertrude Stein
H.G. Wells

Children's Books

Miniature Books

Texas Annexation

American Indian Collection: A collection of Government documents, reports, executive documents of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1838 through the early 20th Century, General Orders of the War Department, and other published material donated by Thomas N. Fletcher.

Confederate Imprints

Slave Narratives: a finding aid for interviews with former slaves in east Texas.

The Wild Dog Collection: archives of a 1960's mimeographed literary journal -- the quintessential "little magazine". The correspondence, manuscripts and associated papers reveal an astounding assortment of seminal writers of the 1960's.