urn:taro:utexas.blac.00168 William Lester Slide Collection, 1958-1973 Benson Latin American Collection University of Texas Libraries, 2006 Finding aid encoded by Christian Kelleher, CA, May 2006Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Lester, William, 1910-1991 William Lester Slide Collection 1958-1973 English N/A 641 color slides Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Color photographic slides of travel to Mexico and Central America by artist William Lester. Biographical Sketch

Artist William Lester was born in Graham, Texas, in 1910. He was an artist for the Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Paladuro Canyon, Texas and near Fort Sill, Oklahoma in the mid 1930s, and taught at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School at the beginning of the 1940s. He joined the faculty of the University of Texas Department of Art in 1942, and was Chairman from 1952-1954. He retired from UT as Professor Emeritus in 1972. William Lester died in 1991. His art was published by the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in 1993 in Companions in time: the paintings of William Lester and Everett Spruce.

 Scope and Contents Note

Color photographic slides of travel to Mexico and Central America, 1958-1973, by artist William Lester. The slides are arranged chronologically and geographically by travel destination, including Mexico City, Guanajuato, Mazatlán, Yucatán, and Guatemala and Panama. No description of individual slides has been completed.

The slides are 2x2" format. The collection may be accessed in the Benson Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted.

 Use Restrictions

Standard copyright restrictions apply.

 Preferred Citation

Cite as: William Lester Slide Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms

The William Lester Slide Collection is classified under the following Subject Headings:

Mexico--Description and travel--Photographs Latin America--Description and travel--Photographs Document Types Slides (Photographs) Box and Folder Inventory Box List 11Best of Mexican Trip with Family, Saltillo to Oaxaca, 1958 [58] 12Best of Mexico D.F, 1959 [33] 13Best of Guanajuato (with Paul), 1959 [54] 14Best of Mexico (with Dean Bloodgood), 1961 [52] 15Mexico (with Sylvia), including Guanajuato, San Miguel, Morelia, Guadalajara, and Mexico D.F. [46] 16Muzquiz (Joneses) and Mexico (Lockenvitzes), 1962 [56] 27Mexico, 1963, and Mazatlán, 1964 [42] 28Chitzen Itzá, Mérida, Yucatán, 1970-1971 [55] 29Las Casas, Yucatán, Miscellaneous, 1970-1971 [57] 210Kabah, Uxmal, Palenque, Yucatán, 1970-1971 [58] 211Guatemala, 1973 [75] 212Panama, Tikal, 1973 [1973]