New York Times Archive
Presented to University of Texas
The University of Texas/Austin Center for American History has been selected to receive 2,500 boxes of clippings of New York Times articles arranged by subject from 1908 to 1989. Arthur Gelb, president of the New York Times Foundation and a former managing editor, made the announcement October 28: "We decided that it required tremendous space and tremendous staff, and Texas was willing to give it the tender loving care it needed."
According to the Dallas Morning News, the archive will be available to students, the general public, and any New York Times reporter who is working on a breaking story and needs to see a subject file.
The center already holds the archives of the defunct New York Herald-Tribune and the New York Journal-American. Gelb said the facility "has become the principal center for journalistic archives."
Posted November 2, 1998.
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