About the Collection
The Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection contains thousands of photographic images, real photographic postcards, books, historic documents, and maps of Texas. The holdings reflect the state's variegated history during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including agriculture, borderlands, business, cultural life, education, economics, entertainment, industrial growth, local government, oil industry development, politics, popular culture, social life, urban and rural life, and more.
Highlights include:
- American Border Troops and the Mexican Revolution: snapshots, real photographic postcards and panoramas made in Texas during the Mexican Revolution.
- Collection of Adelsverein Documents: Documents relating to the Adelsverein, which brought thousands of German emigrants to Texas beginning in 1844.
- Collection of African American Photographs: photographs of Black Texans by various photography studios and amateurs, ca.1890-1960s.
- Collection of Texas Postcards and Collection of Real Photographic Postcards of Texas: early photographic postcards showing Texas railroads, early oil fields and rigs, courthouses, military camps, towns, and events throughout the state.
- Collection of Texas Stereographs: stereoviews showing locations in/around Texas, ca. 1880s-1930s.
- Early Texas Town Views, 1865-1894, early photographs of Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley by Louis de Planque.
- Eric Steinfeldt Collection of Maritime Views: early 19th century postcards of shipping and the maritime industry in Texas.
- George A. McAfee Photographs, ca. 1870-1965, Dallas photographs, many by George McAfee, photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News.
- Henry A. Doerr Texas Stereographs, ca. 1867-1899, depicting the Alamo, missions and everyday city life in San Antonio during the late 19th century
- Historic documents, such as the Texas Constitution and the Confederate States of America constitution; A Declaration of the Causes Which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union; and Texas Unanimous Declaration of Independence, 1836.
- Love Field Air Corps Training Depot Album, Dallas, Texas: photograph album of images taken at Love Field, Dallas, a U.S. Army airfield, including he "Flyin' Frolic" event, Nov. 12-13, 1918, to celebrate the end of World War I.
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Negro City Directories of Dallas, 1941-1942 and 1947-1948: These directories include names, addresses, and other information about every Black person “of high school age or older, residing in the City of Dallas,” as well as a list of local and state officials; a directory of Black churches, educational institutions, and other organizations; a list of Black schools and school teachers; a classified index of Black businesses; photographs of Black Dallas residents; advertisements directed to the Black community, and more.
