University Archive Digital Exhibitions

RIO Suite Photographs

This digital exhibit provides information about the images hanging in the former Research, Instruction, and Outreach Librarians (RIO) space on the third floor of the Alkek Library. The suite features a selection of framed University images that highlight our history.

Images were selected from the University Archives collections by subject librarians and framed. These remain hanging and the suite is open for visitors to come in and view.

We hope you will enjoy the images selected by subject librarians!

Main Building and Quadrangle, circa 1940-1945

Submarine Theatre, Aquarena Springs, circa 1950s

Glass Bottom Boat No. 3, Aquarena Springs

Glass-bottom boats on Spring Lake, circa 1950s

Portrait of four of the first five African American women to enroll at SWT.

A Bill to be Entitled

Main library entrance, 1960

Main floor and reference desk, Alkek Library, circa 1990

Chemistry professor Dr. Charles Willms, standing by a chromatograph.

Scene from “The Misanthrope.” Performed October 22-27, 1963.

Editorial staff of the yearbook, Pedagog, in the Main Building library, 1903-1904.

Book-it Brigade, moving the first four books from the old library to the new library.

View of the Alkek Library, 2016

Photograph of the 2015 “Book-it Brigade,” held as part of the Alkek Library’s 25th anniversary celebration, September 23, 2015