SPECIAL COLLECTIONS/ARCHIVES

GRANTS

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant The grant is to fund a 30-month, “four-phase” initiative to improve the preservation of significant photographic collections held within the Archives and Special Collections of HBCU Libraries.

COLLECTIONS

The Barack Obama Special Collection Click Here for the attached List of the
Titles currently available for “in-house-use-only,” at the Reserve Desk in the Circulation Department.

Delco Collection Consists of official documents, reports, memorabilia, correspondence, letters, memos, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Hyman Collection Includes journal articles, manuscripts, scholarly reprints, newspaper clippings, historic election results, and quotations related to Police Powers, Reformers, Reconstruction, Urban War Powers, and Constitutional Law.

Dr. Robert King Collection Donation of over one thousand volumes from Dr. King's personal collection.

Prairie View Interscholastic League This collection is the central state repository for all documents relating to the PVIL and its history, from its inception in 1920.

LOCAL INFORMATION

Dr. John B. Coleman | History of Prairie View A&M University
Directions to the Library

Phyllis Earles
University Archivist
(936) 261-1516
plearles@pvamu.edu

Rosetta Combs
Library Assistant I
(936) 261-1511
recombs@pvamu.edu

Subject Content by Phyllis Earles, University Archivist
Maintained by Karl Henson, Library Webmaster
Updated 9/11/2009