Galveston and Texas History Center's mission

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Mission of the Galveston and Texas History Center

	The Galveston and Texas History Center's primary missions are to collect, preserve, organize, and service materials that document the history of Galveston and Texas. Its secondary missions include documenting the community through oral history, conducting public programming relating to the history of Galveston, and fostering professional development of its staff.
	Collecting Scope

Our main acquisitions consist of:

Books with nearly 1,900 linear feet of rare, Galveston, and Texas publications.
Manuscript collection of approximately 25,000 linear feet.
Newspaper collections of approximately 1,400 linear feet including indexes to obituaries and articles.
Photographs, around 50,000
Maps, Approximately 25,000 maps and architectural drawings.
Oral histories, more than 150 oral histories.
Subject and vertical files, approximately 150 linear feet of subject files, pamphlet files and manuscript inventories.

For more information regarding our holdings, please contact the Galveston and Texas History Center.

Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg Library, 2310 Sealy Avenue, Galveston TX 77550
Voice (409) 763-8854 ext. 127- Fax (409) 763-0275

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