These calendars feature items from the holdings of the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department. The first Special Collections calendar, 2016 Calendar: Photographs and Photographers (2015), served as an archival outreach project and as a way to celebrate an NEH Save America’s Treasures grant we received to help preserve our image collections. Due to that calendar’s popularity, we have continued creating calendars every year. Special Collections staff decide on the annual theme and the materials included in each year’s calendar.
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2021 Calendar: Art in the Archives
Special Collections Staff
This calendar features art and artists from the C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department's archival holdings. In addition to managing the UTEP Library's art collection, Special Collections contains papers from local artists and collections relating to El Paso art.
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2020 Calendar: Archives Near and Far: Travel and Tourism
Special Collections Staff
This calendar contains examples of travel and tourism materials from the C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department.
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2019 Calendar: Carrillo in Color
Special Collections Staff
Newly discovered images celebrating Mexican photographer Manuel Carrillo.
This calendar features newly discovered color images from Mexican photographer Manuel Carrillo (1906-1989), who is primarily known for his black-and-white photographs of traditional Mexico. These images from the Manuel Carrillo papers, MS288, are included in the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Library’s Carrillo in Color exhibit, which opened on October 19, 2018
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2018 Calendar: Animals in the Archives: Images from the C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department
Special Collections Staff
This calendar features photographs of wild and farm animals, pets, and military service dogs.
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2017 Calendar: Music & Theater Images from the C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Departement
Special Collections Staff
Celebrating 50 Years of Archives at the UTEP Library
Celebration 50 Years of Archives at the UTEP Library 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Archives Department at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Library. In September 1967 Library Director Baxter Polk created the Library Archives and appointed El Paso historian Leon C. Metz as UTEP’s first archivist. Metz argued that the university “had an obligation to the community and the surrounding area to preserve its historical heritage.” He envisioned an archive that actively collected materials about the history of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico – a repository that would become a mandatory stop for researchers studying the El Paso borderlands.
During the eight years he worked as the UTEP archivist, Metz and his staff acquired several hundred collections about El Paso and the border region. Originally housed in a room half the size of a standard office, the Archives Department moved into the entire second story of the south wing of the “new” Library Building (now the Geology Building) in September 1968. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Archives Department’s holdings grew with Leon Metz’s and UTEP history professor Dr. W.H. Timmons’ project to microfilm important collections of archives in Mexico.
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2016 Calendar: Photographs & Photographers
Special Collections Staff
The staff of the Special Collections Department at the University of Texas at El Paso Library recently completed a grant to preserve its photographic collections and make them more accessible. The funds came from the National Parks Service and were administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This calendar features a sampling of photographs from Special Collections