ALAMO IMAGES:

Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience




A Humanities Exhibition

Organized by DeGolyer Library
Southern Methodist University

Susan Prendergast Schoelwer, Exhibit Curator; Tom W. Glóser and Lee Goodwin, Assistant Exhibit Curators; Clifton H. Jones, Library Director

Photography by Flying Horse Photography & Associates, Dallas

Humanities Advisor: Paul Andrew Hutton, University of New Mexico

Advisory Committee: Arnoldo De León, A.C. Greene, Frances Leonard, Trudy McMurrin, Ron C. Tyler, David J. Weber

This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Texas Council for the Humanities, state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Matching funding given by Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Zohn, Sagaponack, New York. Additional funding given by El Fenix Corporation, Dallas.

The DeGolyer Library gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the many institutions and individuals who provided materials for this exhibition, as credited on the item captions. Materials not otherwise credited are from the collections of the DeGolyer Library.

The exhibition Alamo Images was created to celebrate the Texas Sesquicentennial. Through photographic images and words, it explores what the Alamo means to Texans, the role of Mexican-Texans in the Revolution, and reasons why the Alamo story continues to fascinate people of all ages. Featuring more than 150 photographs, the exhibit traces the history of the Alamo as mission, fort, and shrine; the drama of its siege and fall in March 1836; and the recreation of this drama in poems, plays, novels, games, toys, comics, television programs, films, documents, painting, and monuments.

Alamo Images is designed for humanities projects that focus not merely on Texas history but on the mythic power of events that help define a community, state, or nation and on the ways in which people learn history. The photo-and-text panel exhibit was produced by THRC with support from the TCH.

The development of this on-line exhibit is made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Texas Council for the Humanities, and Houston Endowment, Inc.