A Guide to the San Antonio Fair, Inc., Records,
1962-1995 (bulk 1964-1968)
Series 8: Printed Materials, Scrapbooks, and Other
Volumes
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| Creator | San Antonio Fair,
Inc. |
| Title: | San Antonio Fair, Inc.,
Records
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| Dates: | 1962-1995 |
| Creator Abstract: | San Antonio
Fair, Inc., incorporated in December 1962 to formally organize the planning,
fundraising and designing of HemisFair '68 (the 1968 World's Fair) in San
Antonio, Texas. |
| Content Abstract: | The records
of the San Antonio Fair, Inc., document the planning, lobbying, financing and
construction of HemisFair '68. The records consist of correspondence, meeting
minutes, committee reports, financial records, newspaper and magazine articles,
press releases, photographic materials, blueprints, maps and plats, artwork,
oral history interview transcripts, scrapbooks of clippings and ephemera, and
audiovisual materials (film and sound recordings). Most of the records predate
the opening of the fair. |
| Identification: | MS 31 |
| Extent: | 276.4 linear feet (560 boxes) |
| Language | Materials are
primarily in English, with some materials
in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. |
| Repository: | Archives, The
University of Texas at San Antonio Library |
Access Restrictions
Researchers are required to wear gloves provided by the Archives when reviewing photographic materials.
Original audiovisual
materials are closed to patron use. Some use copies are available in the
collection.
Otherwise, there are no restrictions on these materials.
Usage Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the San Antonio Fair, Inc.,
Records must be obtained from the University of Texas at San Antonio
Archives.
[Identification of item], San Antonio Fair, Inc., Records, 1962-1995
(Bulk 1964-1968), MS 31, University of Texas at San Antonio Archives, Library,
University of Texas at San Antonio.
The San Antonio Fair, Inc. Records were donated to the Trinity
University Library in October 1968, immediately following the closing of
HemisFair '68. The records came to Trinity from the executive offices of San
Antonio Fair, Inc., at the fair's headquarters in the German-English School.
They remained at the Trinity University Library until May 1985. During this
time, many records were lost due to mold and a lack of proper preservation.
When the records were transferred to the San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) in
1985, they were stored in the Library's Hertzberg annex, where they were
reboxed and given some preservation treatment. The SAPL donated the records to
the University of Texas at San Antonio Library, Special Collections and
Archives Department, in 1992 (Acc. 1992-05).
Processed by T. Matthew De Waelsche, April 1998, and Angela McClendon,
October 2007.
This collection was processed with support from Marshall Steves of San
Antonio, Tex. Preservation reformatting of audiovisual materials was completed
in 2007 with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and the
Institute of Texan Cultures.
Accessions described in this finding aid: 1992-05, 1998-06, 1998-42,
2001-41, 2004-27.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory:
DACS, EAD, and
TARO 2 EAD Editing Instructions.
Detailed Description of the Series
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Series 8: Printed Materials, Scrapbooks, and Other
Volumes
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| Series Abstract |
| This series includes manuals, rules and regulations, handbooks,
studies and reports and miscellaneous booklets and brochures. News coverage of
HemisFair '68 is well documented in this series, with several newspaper
clippings and journal and magazine articles. Some local, national, and
international newspaper clippings have been collected in scrapbooks;
"Publicity Books" contain newspaper clippings
from local newspapers only, including the
San Antonio Express and
San Antonio Light. |
| Box | Folder |
| 479 | 1 | | Rules and Regulations, Manual, Handbooks,
miscellaneous |
| 1 | | Reports and
Studies |
| 1 | | | Congressional Hearings; Congressional
Record |
| 1 | | | Economics Research Associates Reports (some bound,
some loose in folders),
1963-1965 |
| 2 | | | | Economic Feasibility of a Major
Exposition Fair and Exposition in San Antonio during 1968, April 1,
1963 |
| 2 | | | | Economic Impact of the Proposed
HemisFair, November 11, 1963 |
| 2 | | | | A Development Program for the
HemisFair, January 31, 1964 |
| 2 | | | | Development Program for
HemisFair |
| 3 | | | | Economic Feasibility of a Theme
Structure for HemisFair, November 18, 1964 |
| 3 | | | | Feasibiltiy of a Permanent Stadium in
HemisFair, February 8, 1965 |
| Box | Folder |
| 480 | 1 | | | | Feasibility of a Permanent Stadium in
HemisFair, February 8, 1965 |
| 1 | | | | Feasibility of a Permanent Parking
Structure, July 15, 1965 |
| 1 | | | | Study of Concession Policies and
Practices, July 23, 1965 |
| 1 | | | | Detail Planning and Estimating of
Concession Revenue August 25, 1965 |
| 1 | | | | Sample Rules and Regulations and Lease
Agreements |
| 1 | | | | For Concessions, August 25,
1965 |
| 2 | | | Southwest Research Institute |
| 2 | | | | A Convention Center for the City of
San Antonio, July 1964 |
| 3 | | | Air Conditioning Studies,
September 1965 |
| 3 | | | | Feasibiltiy of Methods of Air
Conditioning HemisFair |
| 3 | | | | Buildings City Public Service
Board |
| 3 | | | | Feasiblitiy of Air Conditioning
Systems for HemisFair |
| 3 | | | | 1968, Silber &
Wallis, Consulting Engineers |
| 4 | | | Results of a Survey and Recommendations
by the Public Convention Facilities Sub Committee of the
Convention |
| 4 | | | | San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
October 15, 1965 |
| 5 | | | | Theme Structure The Tower of the
Americas, W.C. Gilman, & Co., Inc.,
December 16, 1965 |
| 6 | | | McConnell Automation Co. Progress Review,
September 29, 1967 |
| Box |
| 481-482 | | | Brochures and Booklets, Guides, HemisFair publications
feature articles |
| | | Newspapers |
| | | Arranged chronologically. |
| | | | Latin American
Newspapers |
| Box |
| 483 | | | | | 1964-June
1967 |
| Box |
| 484 | | | | | July 1967-December
1968 |
| | | | United States
Newspapers |
| Box |
| 485 | | | | | 1964-1967
January |
| Box |
| 486 | | | | | 1967
February-April |
| Box |
| 487 | | | | | 1967
May-June |
| Box |
| 488 | | | | | 1967
July-August |
| Box |
| 489 | | | | | 1967
September-October |
| Box |
| 490 | | | | | 1967 November-1968
January |
| Box |
| 491 | | | | | 1968
February-March |
| Box |
| 492 | | | | | 1968
March-April |
| Box |
| 493 | | | | | 1968 April |
| Box |
| 494 | | | | | 1968 May |
| Box |
| 495 | | | | | 1968
June-July |
| Box |
| 496 | | | | | 1968
July-August |
| Box |
| 497 | | | | | 1968
September-October |
| | | | Newspaper Articles by
Subject |
| Box | Folder |
| 498 | 1 | | | | Tower of the Americas,
1967 October-1968 January |
| 2 | | | | Woman's Pavilion |
| 3 | | | | United States Pavilion |
| 4 | | | | Czechoslovakia |
| 5 | | | | Restored houses |
| 6 | | | | Concessions |
| 7 | | | | Convention Center |
| 8 | | | | HemisFair medallion |
| 9 | | | | Construction work |
| 10 | | | | Canada |
| 11 | | | | Fair postage stamp |
| 12 | | | | Housing |
| 13 | | | | Parking |
| 14 | | | | Religious expression |
| Box | Folder |
| 499 | 1 | | | | Magazine and journal articles |
| 2 | | | | La Villita parking garage controversy,
1968 January |
| 3 | | | | Clippings,
1968 February |
| 4 | | | | Countdown,
1968 January-March |
| 5 | | | | Clippings,
1968 March |
| 6 | | | | Clippings,
1968 |
| 7 | | | | Post-Fair clippings |
| Box | Folder |
| 500 | 1 | | | | Ticket sales clippings |
| 2 | | | | V.S.I. (Visitor Services, Inc.) |
| 3 | | | | Witte exhibit |
| 4 | | | | Clippings,
1967 November |
| 5 | | | | Countdown,
1967 June-December |
| 6 | | | | Clippings,
1967 December |
| 7 | | | | Local newspaper clippings,
1968 January |
| Box |
| 501 | | | | | Publicity clippings,
1967 October-1968
September |
| | | Scrapbooks and Publicity
Books |
| | | | Publicity Books,
1963-1968 |
| | | | Publicity Books contain clippings from local newspapers. |
| | | | Arranged chronologically. Note: Publicity Books III and IV,
most likely containing materials from May 1965 to June 1966, are missing from
the collection. |
| Box | Folder |
| 502 | 1-2 | | | | HemisFair [Publicity Book] I:
1963 March 31-1964 July 25 |
| 3 | | | | [HemisFair Publicity Book II]:
1964 August 4-1965 30 April |
| 4-5 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book V:
1966 July 1-1967 January 28 |
| 6-7 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book VI:
1967 January 26-1967 July 27 |
| 8-9 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book VII:
1967 August 1-1967 November
14 |
| 10-11 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book VIII:
1967 November 14-1968 March
19 |
| 12 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book IX:
1968 March 21-1968 April 4 |
| Box | Folder |
| 503 | 1 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book IX:
1968 March 21-1968 April 4 |
| 2-4 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book X:
1968 April 1-1968 May 2 |
| 5-7 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book XI:
1968 May 1-1968 May 31 |
| 8-10 | | | | HemisFair Publicity Book XII:
1968 June 1-1968 June 30 |
| | | | Scrapbooks,
1963-1968 |
| Box |
| OM1 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"November 1963 thru December
1964" |
| | | | | Scrapbook,
"HemisFair Newspaper Clippings,
1964-1965" |
| Box |
| OM2 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"State, National, &
International Press Clippings, 1965" |
| | | | | Scrapbook,
"State, National, &
International Press Clippings, 1966" |
| Box |
| OM3 | | | | | Scrapbook,
1965-1968 |
| Box |
| OM4 | | | | | Scrapbook,
1966-1967 |
| Box |
| OM5 | | | | | Scrapbook,
1967-1968 |
| Box |
| OM6 | | | | | Scrapbook,
1968 |
| Box |
| OM7 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Press Clippings, January
through December 1964" |
| Box |
| OM8 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings for
1965" |
| Box |
| OM9 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings, January
1965-" |
| Box |
| OM10 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings, 1966
January-May" |
| Box |
| OM11 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings, 1966
June-September" |
| | | | | Scrapbook,
"Press Clippings of B.I.E. Visit,
Sept. 1966" |
| Box |
| OM12 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings, 1967
January-March" |
| Box |
| OM13 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings, 1967
April-June" |
| Box |
| OM14 | | | | | Scrapbook,
"Local Clippings, 1967
July-September" |
| | | Other Volumes, 1968 and
undated |
| Box |
| OM15 | | | | Registration Book,
1968 |
| Box |
| OM16 | | | | Registration and Schedule Books |
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