Ever-Expanding List of Archives, Repositories, Museum Collections

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Traces of Texas' List of Essential Archives, Repositories and Museum Collections


1) The Library of Congress has some 27,000 photos of Texas, including those of Russell Lee and Erwin E. Smith. You can browse/search them all here: https://bit.ly/3in7vDm

2) The Portal to Texas History is really the Mac Daddy archive, as it has more than 429,000 photos of Texas, including collections archived by various municipal libraries and personal collections. You can browse/search them all here:   https://bit.ly/3GmUJwG   

A few of the noteworthy collections in The Portal to Texas History's archives:

• Austin History Center's digital photo archive: https://bit.ly/3jXfYO1
• Texas Historical Commission's digital photo archive:  https://bit.ly/3k1HFFE
• Dolph Briscoe Center for American History's digital photo archive : https://bit.ly/3Qo7zPW
• UT San Antonio's Library's digital photo archive: https://bit.ly/3vNAHX
• Cattle Raisers Museum digital photo archive: https://bit.ly/3vUu59q
• Palestine Public Library's digital photo archive: https://bit.ly/3GQy7Gg
• Denton Public Library's digital photo archive: https://bit.ly/3iqrDod
• El Paso Public Library's digital photo archive https://bit.ly/3Qpg1OW
• Museum of the Gulf Coast: https://bit.ly/3ZhSBPD
• Gillespie County Historical Society:  https://bit.ly/3WYZAeq

3) The University of Texas-Arlington Special Collections Library has more than 100,000 great photos mostly of the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  You can browse/search them all here:  https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/

A few of the noteworthy collections in the UT-Arlington Special Collections Library:

• The  Basil Clemons collection here:  https://bit.ly/3k1WIz8 
• The Jack White collection here: https://bit.ly/3IAz8U4  
• The W.D. Smith collection here: https://bit.ly/3IJsgno
• The Squire Haskins collection here: https://bit.ly/3IBpOQ4
• The Fort Worth Star Telegram collection here: https://bit.ly/3W0bvYh

 

4) The Degolyer Library at Southern Methodist University has a great number of wonderful Texana photo collections. You can browse/search them all here: https://bit.ly/3irlbgM 
 

A few of the noteworthy collections at SMU's Degolyer Library:

• The Lawrence T. Jones III collection of Texas Photographs:  https://bit.ly/3ZmEQyS
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