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[Music] the benson latin american collection is one of the best collections in the world for the study of latin america and latinos in the united the nettie states benson latin american collection started 100 years ago it started with the acquisition of the genaro garcia collection [Music] there's two delegates from the university of texas at austin that are in mexico city they were walking down the street saw a book in a in a used bookstore window it happened to be a first edition of bernal diaz del castillo's true history of the conquest of new spain and one of them apparently said to the other this book belongs at the university of texas the shop owner says to them this is one book in a much much larger collection made up of thousands of manuscript pages thousands of newspapers and periodicals and thousands of books we're talking 17 tons worth of materials so they were able to convince the university to purchase it over the past 100 years expert librarians and archivists and histori