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University Records
The Normal Building (1891-1907) was the first building on the North Texas Campus.
The University Archives houses a variety of records from the institution's administrative and academic offices. Included in these holdings are the records of the presidents of the university, the minutes of the Board of Regents, fiscal reports, catalogs, yearbooks, and over 700,000 photographic prints and negatives. Although the records date from the university's creation in 1890, holdings are minimal before 1900. One resource in constant use is the subject collection of clippings concerning the university. Although incomplete, this subject collection does contain information clipped from newspapers between 1935 and 1994. Researchers find this subject arrangement useful because many of the local newspapers are not indexed. Information from the University Records Division has been used for a number of articles concerning the university and was the primary source for university publications, Down the Corridor of Years: A Centennial History of the University of North Texas in Photographs, 1890-1990 by Robert S. La Forte and Richard Himmel and The Story of North Texas: From Texas Normal College, 1890, to the University of North Texas System, 2001 by James L. Rogers.
Joshua Crittenden Chilton served as the first president of North Texas, 1890-1893.
UNT Theses and Dissertations
Theses and Dissertations are a special category of materials at the UNT Libraries. Some are available in microfilm format. Theses and dissertations written from 1973 to the present, excluding those filed electronically, are located in the Microforms Department, Willis Library Lower Level. The archival copies of older UNT Theses and Dissertations are stored off site. Therefore, researchers will need to request this material in advance so that it can be retrieved from off-site storage by Archives staff for use in the Archives' reading room.