Finding Aids

The Downs-Jones Library Archive and Special Collections is currently housed on the Huston-Tillotson University campus. Our collections have been organized into an in-house finding aids index.

Please read our guide on how to search through the available inventory in our on-site repository. 

Appropriate links are attached to titles that lead to another website with access to detailed descriptions about the collection at HT, and other archives throughout the state of Texas, managed by Texas Archival Resource Online.

To access our collections, either browse the online Digital Collections or make an in-person appointment to visit the Archives.

Finding aids are continuously added to this site. Please check back soon for more updates.

Index of Finding Aids (A–Z)

• HT Alumni Collection (1900s – 2010s)
  • Ada Anderson (1828 – 2021)
• HT Board of Trustees Collection (1960s – 2019)
• HT Media Collection
  • Discs (1980s – 2022)
  • Photographs (1898-1970s)
  • Photographs (1980s – Onwards)
    • Sports Photographs (1920s – 2001)
• HT Presidential Collection
  • Dr. Mary E. Branch (1930 – 1944)
  • Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette (2015 – 2022)
  • Dr. Karl Everett Downs (1943 – 2014)
  • Dr. Larry Earvin (2000 – 2015)
  • Dr. William Henry Jones (1944 – 2001)
  • Dr. John Q. Taylor King (1965 – 1988)
  • Dr. Reuben S. Lovinggood (1900 – 1978)
  • Dr. Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. (1988 – 2000)
  • Dr. John Jarvis Seabrook (1915 – 2010)
• HT Print Collection
  • United Negro College Fund (1944 – 1995)
  • Yearbooks (1924 – 1992)