Contact Details

Visual Resources Collection
School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, B7500
Austin TX, 78712-0222

Phone: 512.471.0143
Web site

Physical Location:
Sutton Hall, Room 3.128

The Visual Resource Collection is located within the Technical Reference Center, the architectural reference library supported by the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. The collection functions principally as a teaching resource for faculty within the college, but also serves faculty outside of the college and grants limited access to students. The collection consists of almost 152,000 35 mm slides and over 36,000 digital images of primarily art and architecture.

The Visual Resource Collection houses several special collections including the Gunn Collection. Ralph Ellis Gunn was a prominent landscape architect who designed extensively in the River Oaks area of Houston in the 1950’s, 60’s and early 70’s. The Gunn Collection includes sets of landscaping plans for residences in Houston, other areas of Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi. The collection consists of several books, sets of plans, and almost 900 slides, all digitally imaged, donated in the late 1970’s and is available for viewing within the library.

Contact Details

Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries,
The University of Texas at Austin
PO Box P (BTL200 S5430)
Austin, TX 78713-8916 USA
Telephone: 512-495-4621
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/

Contact Details

Green Art Research Library
The Old Jail Art Center
201 S. 2nd St.
Albany, TX 76430
Phone: 325-762-2269
Email: archivist@theoldjailartcenter.org
Web site (library): http://www.theoldjailartcenter.org/libarch/library.htm
Web site (museum): http://www.theoldjailartcenter.org

Contact Details

Visual Resources Center
Department of Art History, Rice University
6100 Main St, 103 Herring Hall
Email: vrc@rice.edu
Web site: arthistory.rice.edu/vrc.cfm