Mary Crawford Fanzine Collection

Archive
Name:	Mary Crawford Fanzine Collection
Date(s):	acquired in 2015
Archivist:	University of Texas Libraries (at College Station)
Founder:	Mary Crawford
Type:	print zine archive
Fandom:	Star Trek TOS, Starsky & Hutch
URL:	Mary Crawford Fanzine Collection
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The Mary Crawford Fanzine Collection is a collection of Star Trek and Starsky & Hutch zines and other items donated to the University of Texas Libraries Special Collections by Mary Crawford.

Similar Collections

For similar archives at TAMU, see Texas A&M Cushing Library Fanzine Collection.

For similar archives at Iowa, see University of Iowa Fanzine Archives.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of fanzines, mostly fanfic, involving the television shows Star Trek: The Original Series and Starsky & Hutch. (There is one additional fanzine devoted to multimedia.)

The majority of the contents in this collection consists of fan fiction. Fan fiction is the name given to literary or artistic productions created by fans about the characters, settings and events of the media universe in which they are interested. A substantial portion of the fanworks in the Crawford Collection is identified as "slash”. "Slash" refers to fanworks that feature same-sex relationships and are sometimes (though not always) sexually explicit. In slash, sexual identity, sexuality and/or romance are often the centers of the story, rather than the conventional adventures featured in more traditional fanworks.

Slash and het (that is, items dealing with opposite-sex relationships) items are identified as such on the item folder. If an item is *not* identified as slash or het, it is to be assumed that the item is “gen” (containing no sexual or romantic content). Both slash and het items have been specifically identified because of their importance as highly visible fan fiction subcultures. (s) indicates slash material. (h) indicates het material, (g) indicates gen material.