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Materials in the Texas State Archives should by cited by AGENCY
or COLLECTION name. An agency is a board, commission, or office
of state (or Republic) government that creates records. A collection
is a body of manuscripts, papers, or other non-state record items.
Whenever possible SERIES, or subdivisions of these agency records
or collections, should also be cited. A researcher should consult
an archivist if there is any doubt as to the identity of an agency,
collection, or series.
The following template covers most instances, and will be included
in new and revised finding aids in the Archives' Search Room (and
online), as Preferred citation:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Records (or another, more
specific title of the records),
(Agency or Collection name). Archives and Information Services Division,
Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
If desired, the first occurrence of the repository name may include
the phrase "(hereafter cited as ARIS - TSLAC)."
Researchers must not cite box or folder numbers, as these
are subject to change and may confuse later researchers or staff.
The exception is with unprocessed records or collections, when it
is permissible to say the following:
[There is no finding aid available for these unprocessed records
(or this unprocessed collection). Call number is XXX.]
EXAMPLES OF CITATIONS:
Governor's Records
Nathaniel J. Palmer to Governor of Texas (January 18, 1854),
Records of the
first two terms
of Elisha Marshall Pease, Texas Office of the Governor.
Archives
and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and
Archives
Commission.
Comptroller's Records
James D. Allcorn, Public debt claim, Texas Comptroller's Office.
Archives and
Information Services
Division, Texas State Library and Archives
Commission.
Register of liquor license complaint hearings (1910-1916), Records
of liquor
permits, Occupation
taxes, Records documenting revenues and receipts,
Texas Comptroller's
Office. Archives and Information Services Division,
Texas State Library
and Archives Commission.
Comptroller's Records - Confederate Pension Applications
Albert S. Adams, Texas Confederate pension application #12331,
Texas Comptroller's Office. Archives and Information Services
Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Secretary of State Records
James Treat to Abner S. Lipscomb (July 4, 1840), Correspondence
relating to
diplomatic relations
with Mexico, Texas Secretary of State. Archives and
Information Services
Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Jeff McLemore (1918), Campaign contribution and expense statements
of
candidates, Texas
Secretary of State. Archives and Information Services
Division, Texas
State Library and Archives Commission.
Court Records
Brief of the appellee (January 6, 1873), W.H. Daingerfield et
al. v. J.A. and G.W.
Paschal et al.,
M-7047, Case files, Records, Texas Supreme Court.
Archives and Information
Services Division, Texas State Library and
Archives Commission.
Legislative Records
House Bill 113, 17th Legislature, Regular Session (1881), Bill
files, Texas
Legislature. Archives
and Information Services Division, Texas State Library
and Archives Commission.
Page 15, Transcript of proceedings, Joint Committee of the House
and Senate in
the Investigation
of the Texas State Ranger Force, Texas Legislature. Archives and
Information Services
Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Adjutant General's Records
List of agents and subagents employed in the collection of the
tax-in-kind in the
2nd Congressional
District of Texas (June 2, 1864), Reports of hired persons
(tax-in-kind),
Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's
Department. Archives
and Information Services Division, Texas State Library
and Archives Commission.
Muster roll of Company A (September 1, 1875), Frontier Battalion
military rolls,
Military rolls,
Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information
Services Division,
Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Manuscript Collections
N.M. Danforth to M.B. Lamar (April 30, [1839]), #526, Mirabeau
Buonaparte
Lamar papers.
Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library
and Archives Commission.
Constitution and by-laws of the Texas Equal Rights Association
(October 21-22,
1895), Texas suffrage
movement: organization, Woman's suffrage, Reform
movements, Erminia
Thompson Folsom papers. Archives and Information
Services Division,
Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Map Collection
"Plan de la Villa de Austin, 1824," #122, Map collection. Archives
and Information
Services Division,
Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Music Collection
"General Taylor's Quick Step," #13, Music collection. Archives
and Information
Services Division,
Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Prints and Photographs Collection
San Diego [Pablo Perez Home, built in 1854 in San Diego, Texas]
(1970/101-
1304), Fannie
Ratchford collection, Prints and photographs collection. Archives
and Information
Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Online Document
Stephen F. Austin to José Antonio Navarro, October 19, 1829 [document
online],
Mirabeau B. Lamar
papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas
State Library
and Archives Commission. Available from http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/giants/navarro/austin-navarro-1.html;
Internet; accessed
April 2002.
Texana Collection (Monograph Publications)
Texas. Capitol Furnishing Board. Report of the Capitol Furnishing
Board.
Austin: Smith,
Hicks & Jones, 1889.
Winfrey, Dorman Hayward. A History of Rusk County, Texas. Waco:
Texian
Press, 1961.
Texana Collection (Journal Publications)
Storey, John W. "Texas Baptist Leadership, the Social Gospel,
and Race,
1954-1968." Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, 83 (July 1979): 29-46.
Revised April 2002
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