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The Wittliff is the nationally renowned research center, archive, and museum at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Our Mission The Wittliff Collections collect, preserve and present the cultural heritage of Texas, the Southwest & Mexico through works of the region’s storytellers—writers, photographers, musicians, filmmakers and ...
- Bill Wittliff : The Wittliff Collections
The William D. Wittliff Papers document the book publishing,...
- Bill Wittliff : The Wittliff Collections
FIND US:. 7th floor, Albert B. Alkek Library Texas State University. 601 University Dr. San Marcos, TX 78666-4604. 512.245.2313
The Wittliff Collections, located on the seventh floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University, was founded by William D. Wittliff in 1986. The Wittliff Collections include the Southwestern Writers Collection and the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection.
The William D. Wittliff Papers document the book publishing, photography, and screenwriting and filmmaking aspects of Mr. Wittliff’s various professional and personal pursuits, ranging in date from 1968-1995, and including the following formats: correspondence, typescript drafts, bibliographies, woodcut blocks, illustrations, photographs ...
Fifty years after Lee visited and photo-documented the living and working conditions of the Depression era communities of San Augustine, Texas, and Pie Town, New Mexico, this group was inspired by Lee’s FSA images held at Texas State’s Wittliff Collections.
The newly expanded Wittliff Collections has reopened following a year of remodeling, with more space now for displaying the wealth of photography in the archive’s holdings, which ranges from a centennial of the great Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee to the Texas prison-farm artistry of Danny Lyon.
Founded by Bill and Sally Wittliff in 1986, The Wittliff Collections is a distinguished and steadily-growing archive charged with preserving, exhibiting, and providing access to the papers and artifacts of principle writers, filmmakers, and musicians of the southwest.
