Oil derricks appear everywhere, 1919, from Ranger, Texas, and the Ranger oil fields, DeGolyer Library
Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints, DeGolyer Library
About the Collection
Overview
The Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection contains hundreds of photographic images, real photographic postcards, books, historic documents, and maps of Texas held by SMU’s DeGolyer Library. Each item includes information about Texas and Texas history.
In particular, Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints reflects the state's rich history during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The digitized files in this online collection illustrate historical events such as the development of the Texas oil industry, relations with Mexico, the Texas Revolution, Mexican Revolution and Civil War. The collection also includes images of cultural experiences like the iconic State Fair of Texas and everyday life in the state.
DeGolyer Library digital collections are part of CUL Digital Collections, which contain thousands of digitized photographs, manuscripts, imprints, and works of art held by SMU's Central University Libraries special collections.
Holdings and Highlights
- Album of views of Arizona, New Mexico and the southwest, 1892: Mary Jacobson photographs of San Antonio,
- American border troops and the Mexican Revolution: snapshots, real photographic postcards and panoramas made in Texas during the Mexican Revolution
- Battle of San Jacinto: a variety of maps, illustrations, engravings, and images
- Brownsville, Texas: a collection of cartes-de-visite of Brownsville, Texas, ca, 1865, attributed to Louis DePlanque
- Collection of Texas portraits: early Texas portraits from all walks of life, as well as a group from the Collection of African American portraits
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Collection of Texas postcards, Collection of real photographic postcards of Texas, and Eric Steinfeldt collection of maritime views: a growing number of rare, early photographs postcards showing Texas railroads, railroad depots, early oil fields and rigs, courthouses, military camps, parades, and events in small Texas towns from several collections of Texas postcards - Collection of Walter H. Horne photographs: Real photographic postcards made during the Mexican Revolution era in Texas
- The Decentralizer, a monthly socialist journal from Hallettsville, Texas
- Eric Steinfeldt collection of maritime views: a group of early images of shipping and the maritime industry in Texas
- El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico album
- El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico
- George A. McAfee photographs
- Historic documents, such as the Texas constitution and the Confederate States of America constitution and A declaration of the causes which impel the state of Texas to secede from the federal union
- Lynn Lennon photographs of the State Fair of Texas: Photographs of the State Fair, ca. 1980s-1990s
- Ranger, Texas, and the Ranger oil fields: digitized book documenting the development of the Ranger oil fields in 1919
- San Antonio, Texas boudoir card photographs, ca. 1885-1889, by E. K. Sturdevant
Digital Collections Guidelines and Procedures
Items in Central University Library Digital Collections are digitized following the SMU Central University Libraries Digitization Guidelines and Procedures. Digital collections are created under the guidelines of the SMU CONTENTdm Guide: Framework for Building a Collection, or through specialized metadata profiles tailored for the collection.
Usage
Copyright usage terms vary throughout the collection. Each item contains information about usage terms. If SMU does not have the right to publish the item on the Internet, only the item's metadata will be available and the digitized object will be available on a restricted access basis. Such items may only be viewed on campus. When items are available for use, please cite DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.
Related Collections
Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints is one of a family of digital collections from the DeGolyer Library that focuses on Texas, the U.S. West, Mexico, and Latin America.
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Grants
In FY2012 digitization of early Texas postcards was funded and supported by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission as part of the TexTreasures program. The TexTreasures program was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services which is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.
Contact Info
For more information about the collection, please contact degolyer@smu.edu.
