We're back from Winter Break! The weather in Lubbock has been unseasonably warm, so here are some images from 1976 to remind us of a thing called snow. These come from the Photographic Services collection - hdl.handle.net/10605/13727. #archives #southwestcollection #texastech #lubbock #snow #winter

We’re back in the office! 💗🏢 Here are some songs and albums our archivists are listening to as they settle back into the groove of things. 🎵💃🕺 #music #davidbergmuller #davidorlowsky #jonimitchell #brucehornsbyandtherange #wutangclan #oidupaavladimiroiun #glassanimals #wolfalice #olafurarnalds

The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library will be closed for Winter Break beginning on December 24, 2025. We will resume our regular business hours (M-F, 9am-5pm) on January 5, 2026. Happy Holidays! #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #texastech #preservation #history

Here's a little office cheer to brighten your day! Some of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library faculty, staff, and students decorated their doors to ring in the holiday season. #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #texastech #manuscripts #Holidays #happyholidays

Known as “Dice,” this guitar was custom-built by Ted Newman Jones for Jesse “Guitar” Taylor—a popular Lubbock-born guitar player known for his innovative and energetic performances. 🎲🎸 #guitar #music

Dec 23, 1927 - Marshall Ratliffe dressed as Santa Claus and robbed the First National Bank in Cisco, Texas. The heist resulted in a hostage situation, shootout, and one of the state's largest manhunts. #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #preservation #newspapers #santaclaus

The Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball is near! Be sure to get your tickets to see #MichaelMartinMurphey perform on December 18 in Anson, TX! For more information on the history of the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball, read our blog here: tinyurl.com/2025CowboyCh... #TexasCowboysChristmasBall #Christmas

It's time for this month's FRIDAY FAVORITES! One of our favorite things is decorating for the holidays! We wish you all a warm and festive season. #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #texastech #manuscripts #history

We're back from Fall Break and will be open 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday! For research inquiries or to schedule a visit, please contact [email protected] or (806) 742-9070. #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #texastech #research

Happy early Thanksgiving! This 1958 image is from our Winston Reeves Collection (hdl.handle.net/10605/16706) and shows four men around a Holsum Bakery display. The photo was labeled "Craig and Webster - Holsum." #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #Thanksgiving

Just a little humor for your Thursday! #southwestcollection #archives #history #specialcollections

In 1955, TTU theatre students toured the set of "Giant" during production in Marfa, TX. 1: Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. 2-3: Taylor with TTU students. Public Information Photo Collection: swco-ir.tdl.org/collections/... #texastech #southwestcollection #elizabethtaylor #jamesdean #giant #marfa

EXCEL SPREADSHEET, 1919 EDITION This ledger comes from the Texas and Pacific Coal Company Records. The company was formed in 1888 by Colonel Robert Dickie Hunter, who also formed the company town of Thurber, TX. #archives #southwestcollection #preservation #texasandpacificcoalcompany #Thurber

For this month's Friday Faves, Assistant Archivist Weston Marshall highlights the Hal P. Spencer Papers. Spencer served in the U.S. Army at Hickman Field during WWII. After the war, he worked at Reese Air Force Base. txarchives.org/ttusw/findin... #PearlHarbor #archives #southwestcollection #ww2

This Thursday! Join us for a reading from Clara Bush Vadala @ 6pm. texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #sowellcollection #Fall2025VirtualReadingSeries #virtualreading #reading #poetry #writers #literature #community #nature

We're hiring! 💼📣 Visit the link here for more information: www.depts.ttu.edu/library/abou... #archives #intern #southwestmusicarchive #southwestcollection

Happy November! Here are a few items from the Dia De Los Muertos Committee (Lubbock, Texas) Records, 1998-2003. The collection contains correspondence, meeting notes, posters, newspapers, photographs, and more! #lubbock #archives #southwestcollection #specialcollections #DiaDeLosMuertos

🎃Happy Halloween from the Southwest Music Archive!🎃 Enjoy this electrostatic print from the Jesse “Guitar” Taylor collection of a wizard brewing something spooky! For more information on this print, visit the link here: hdl.handle.net/10605/82010.

Halloween is around the corner! Check out these vintage Halloween-themed window displays at Lubbock's Hemphill-Wells Company department store from 1943. - Winston Reeves Photograph Collection #archivesmonth #texasarchivesmonth #americanarchivesmonth #southwestcollection #Halloween

We had a great time in Las Cruces, NM earlier this month for Border Regional Archives Group's 9th annual Border Archives Bazaar. Here's a picture of our merch table! Be sure to keep an eye on our social medias for future events and opportunities to learn about the Southwest Collection.

Archives Month has nearly come to an end, but archival work continues! If you want more information about the SWC, here's a copy of our brochure which describes our mission, collecting scope, and other aspects of the collection. #archivesmonth #southwestcollection #specialcollections #manuscripts

You never know what you're going to find when processing archival collections! Here are some examples of interesting items that our archivists have come across while processing. #archivesmonth #texasarchivesmonth #americanarchivesmonth #southwestcollection #specialcollections

October 16th is #AskAnArchivist Day! If you have questions for our archivists, we welcome you to message us directly or leave your question in the comment section below. We look forward to hearing from you! For research inquiries, please contact Reference Services at [email protected].

If you are near Las Cruces, NM this weekend please be sure to stop by the Border Archives Bazaar. We'll have a booth featuring the Southwest Collection so be sure to stop by! #southwestcollection #specialcollections #preservation #manuscripts #archivesmonth #texasarchivesmonth #americanarchivesmonth

For this Friday Favorites, Archival Associate Corry McCormick shares one of his favorite collections, the William Edwin Dyess Papers, 1916-1976, which includes correspondence, printed and scrapbook material, and photographs. #archivesmonth #southwestcollection #specialcollections #dyessairforcebase

Congratulations on turning 100, The Daily Toreador! For digitized versions of the campus newspapers and many other area newspapers, please visit newspapers.swco.ttu.edu/handle/20.50... #archivesmonth #texasarchivesmonth #southwestcollection #texastech #lubbock

October is Archives Month! Follow along as we celebrate and share more about how our institution makes history accessible to you. 📷: Southwest Collection Photograph Collection, 1976-1997 #archivesmonth #texasarchivesmonth #americanarchivesmonth #southwestcollection #research #manuscripts #history

Look at this 1968 "CATTLE-LOG" which includes a detailed overview of the archive from that time. The rest of the guide lists archived collections, all of which continue to be housed and preserved at the SWC. #southwestcollection #history #archives #preservation #texastech #research #manuscripts

The Panhandle South Plains Fair is back in Lubbock from September 19-27, 2025! These early images are from the 1930s through 1950s and can be found in our digitized Winston Reeves Photograph Collection. #southwestcollection #archives #history #lubbock #specialcollections #southplainsfair

This past weekend, our archivists visited Fort Stockton, TX to conduct oral history interviews. We are very grateful to the Fort Stockton residents for sharing their stories of historical significance. For oral history transcriptions from past years, please visit swco-ir.tdl.org/collections/...

For this month's Friday Favorites, Archivist Kylie Kincaid shows off her favorite items from the Jesse "Guitar" Taylor Papers. These images are of Taylor's original artwork. #archives #southwestcollection #jessetaylor #jesseguitartaylor

On 8/28/25 the SWC joined the Motley County Historical Commission and the Matador Ranch in dedicating a replacement marker commemorating the history of the Matador Ranch. The original marker was destroyed by the 7/21/23 tornado. #history #southwestcollection #archives #matadorranch #matadortexas

This Lubbock Pictorial image shows Mr. Bob Penney (right) and Mr. Kincaide (barber, left) standing next to the traditional barber's pole. Penney was Precinct 4 Commissioner from 1911 to 1912. #southwestcollection #archives #history #lubbock #lubbockhistory

This is our last edition of Label Lubbock Thursdays! Thank you to everyone who engaged with the images and identified individuals in our posts. If you can identify the place(s) or person(s), please leave a comment with your response below the post.

Happy Centennial Goin' Band from Raiderland! You don't look a day over 100! These 1930s images can be found in our Winston Reeves collection. #archives #specialcollections #southwestcollection #texastech #history #lubbockhistory #lubbock #goinband

School starts Monday! Welcome back Red Raiders! 👆 To celebrate your return, here are some images from the University Archives of pre-electronic class registration. Aren't you glad you don't have to wait in these long lines? #specialcollections #archives #texastech #southwestcollection #library

Each Thursday, we will post 2-3 images with either unidentified buildings or people in our Lubbock Pictorial collection. If you can identify the place(s) or person(s), please leave a comment with your response below the post. See Facebook or Instagram for more details on the photos!

HAPPY NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY DAY! Today we're featuring our Frank Reeves collection of digitized photos. Reeves was a livestock reporter for Fort Worth Star-Telegram, American Hereford Journal, and Cattleman. #archives #lubbock #southwestcollection #photography #nationalphotographyday #frankreeves

ENJOYING OUR CONTENT? Follow the Southwest Collection on all platforms! #lubbock #archives #lubbockhistory #specialcollections #southwestcollection #oralhistory #preservation #texastech #research #library

Did you know processing archival materials requires archivists to remove rubber bands, metal paper clips, and staples? These rust and disintegrate, causing damage to documents. Plastic paperclips are preferred. #southwestcollection #preservation #archives #specialcollections

Welcome to FRIDAY FAVORITES! Once a month we will feature an employee and their favorite thing from the SWC. Georgie Gaines shares some unique photographic materials: Stereoscopic Slide/Stereoview, Gelatin Glass Negative, Albumen Prints, & Tintype. #southwestcollection #archives #photographs

Follow us on our other socials for more musical content!🎤🎵 #music #musicarchives #musiclibrary #southwestmusicarchive

Each Thursday, we will post 2-3 images with either unidentified buildings or people in our Lubbock Pictorial collection. If you can identify the place(s) or person(s), please leave a comment with your response below the post. See Facebook or Instagram for more details on the photos!

Bring your research questions for several of our archivists at this event focused on researching local histories! See you there!

Did you know TTU had an observatory near the TTU Museum? It was built in the early 1980s and housed IGOR No. 5. The telescope is now prominently placed just north of our archive, in front of TTU's new Academic Sciences Building. #archives #southwestcollection #astronomy #telescope #texastech

These publications were released in 1963 and 1969 as The Space Race was in full effect. Both examples show theorized moon colonization and "many scientific facets of historic space efforts." The full issues can be found in our SPACE reference file. #southwestcollection #archives #NASA #space #moon

Each Thursday, we will post 2-3 images with either unidentified buildings or people in our Lubbock Pictorial collection. If you can identify the place(s) or person(s), please leave a comment with your response below the post. See Facebook or Instagram for more details on the photos!

This article on Faye Lucille Cox was published in the July 13, 1940 issue of the Lubbock AJ. The air show featured "America's official No. 1 woman parachute jumper" and Bernadine Lewis King, "Hollywood's woman stunt pilot." Also pictured is Cox's dog, Big Boy, at the Lubbock Municipal Airport.

Gertrude Suppe worked as an ethno-hymnologist for many denominational commissions and task forces. She was involved in identifying, transcribing, translating, and promoting Hispanic hymns. Read more about Suppe on our blog: southwestcollection.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/h... #hymns #hymnals

We hope you had a great 4th of July! Here are two images from the 1905 4th of July parade in Lubbock, TX. In the top image, you can see the original Lubbock County Courthouse. These pictures come from our Lubbock Pictorial collection of digitized photos. #lubbockhistory #southwestcollection