Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature, 1860
 Front cover of the Texas Album of the 8th Legislature Creator: DeRyee, William, 1825-1903
Title: Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature
Dates: 1860
Abstract: The Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature was created by William De Ryee and R.E. Moore and published by Miner, Lambert & Perry of Austin, Texas, in 1860. The album includes 129 individual albumen portraits of members of the 8th Texas Legislature and other state officials, including Governors Hardin R. Runnels and Sam Houston, Lieutenant Governor Edward Clark, and Speaker Marion DeKalb Taylor. Accompanying many of the portraits are the name of the county each member represented in the legislature and biographical information.
This collection is a single bound album. Images are arranged with governor, lieutenant governor, senators, senate staff, speaker, and representatives. The senators and representatives are roughly in alphabetical order.
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Richard Bachman Collection, 1825-1983, undated
 25th Anniversary of J. Bachman Grocery store
Creator: Bachman, Richard
Title: Richard Bachman collection
Dates: 1825-1983, undated
Abstract: The Richard Bachman collection is an assembly of papers, ephemera, photographs, and other materials that document the lives and activities of several Texas families from 1825 to 1983, bulk 1840-1920. The families represented, related by marriage, are Elmore, Miller, Obenchain, Wall, Rugeley, Bachman, Hawkins, Guinn, and Pigford. The collection has a wide variety of documents, from receipts, business documents, and wills and deeds, to correspondence and a family Bible. Major Texas events documented include the Texas Archives War, annexation to the United States, and the Civil War, especially regarding the Battle of Galveston. Notable items in the collection include documentation of the Colorado Navigation Company, an early Rand McNally Texas map (1880s), a proclamation by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones, and an extensive selection of deeds and wills. Photographs make up a significant portion of the collection and cover nearly 130 years of family and photographic history. The collection contains images in a variety of photographic formats, including cased images, card photographs, snapshots, and Polaroids. The variety of images include a young Confederate soldier, Company C of the Texas Rangers, various family members, and several unidentified individuals.
Only the photographs in this collection have been digitized. The photographs are organized into eight subseries: Elmore family, Hawkins family, McHenry-Guinn family, Obenchain-Wall family, Rugeley family, Bachman family, and miscellaneous.
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Greg D. Box Photograph Collection, about 1900-1910
 Batson Oil Gusher Collector: Box, Greg D.
Title: Greg D. Box photograph collection
Dates: about 1900-1910
Abstract: The Greg D. Box photograph collection consists primarily of photographs of oil workers, equipment, and oil fields in Sour Lake, Texas, dating about 1900-1910. Views of the town include a fire at the Sour Lake National Bank.
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Mabel H. Brooks Photograph Collection, 1860-1920, undated
 East Sixth Street, Austin Collector: Mabel H. Brooks
Title: Mabel H. Brooks photograph collection
Dates: 1860-1920, undated
Abstract: The Mabel H. Brooks photograph collection consists of 220 photographs of Austin, Texas and the surrounding area, made between 1866 and 1920 by various photographers. The images were collected by Mabel Houghton Brooks and arranged into five scrapbooks. Samuel B. Hill, Hamilton Biscoe Hillyer, and William James Oliphant are the principal creators of the images, while some of the photographers are unknown.
These photographs were originally mounted within five scrapbooks but were removed because of preservation concerns. The prints have been numbered serially and remain in the original order in which they were arranged within the scrapbooks. The image descriptions have been adapted from the notes on the back of the prints. When known, the name of the photographer follows the title of the image. Duplicate images appear in the collection and have been noted within brackets.
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Mary Stark Collard Daguerreotype, about 1845-1862
 Mary Stark Collard Daguerreotype Title: Mary Stark Collard daguerreotype
Dates: about 1845-1862
Abstract: Mary Stark Collard was the wife of Texas pioneer and surveyor Elijah Simmons Collard and mother to Jonathan, Lemuel Miller, Job Stark and James Harrison Collard, who all fought for Texas independence. This daguerreotype is a portrait of Mary Stark Collard created by an unknown photographer while she was living in Texas, dating about 1845-1862.
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Edna Collins Collection, 1940s, 1955
 German POW cemetery at Camp Swift Creator: Collins, Edna Gertrude, 1885-1968
Title: Edna Collins collection
Dates: 1940s, 1955
Abstract: Edna Gertrude Collins (1885-1968) was an Austin-area painter and educator. The Edna Collins collection consists of 40 photographs, watercolors, and pencil drawings that primarily document the decoration of several theaters and recreation halls on the grounds of Camp Swift. Texas during the Second World War by Collins and a team of civilians and German prisoners of war (POWs). Also prominent in the collection are five commemorative Christmas cards hand-illustrated by the POWs and presented to Collins in 1943. Dates covered are 1940s, 1955, with the bulk dating 1943-1944. Subjects covered include depictions of rural culture in both west Texas and northern Mexico, as well as life as a POW at Camp Swift.
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L.L. Cook Company Collection, 1940-1959
 When the Days Work is Over M 502 Creator: L.L. Cook Company
Title: L.L. Cook Company collection
Dates: 1940, 1946-1951, 1953, 1955-1957, 1959
Abstract: The L.L. Cook Company was founded in 1921 and was one of the two largest postcard publishing companies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin up to the 1960s, producing thousands of postcards with scenes from different cities and states across the country. The collection presents images of life, architecture and landscape in 105 towns in Texas. Prominent in the collection are Bandera, Brownsville, Del Rio, Edinburg, El Paso, Henderson, Junction, Kilgore, Kingsville, McAllen, Mission, and southern Texas. Dates covered are 1940, 1946-1951, 1953, 1955-1957, 1959, bulk 1948, 1951, 1956. Overall, a wide range of subjects are covered including churches, hospitals, schools, swimming pools, factories, homes, post offices, hotels, businesses, courthouses, downtown and main streets, monuments, bridges, beaches, oil fields, rodeo, steers and bulls, dude ranches, calf roping, highway scenes, aerial views of select towns, fruit groves, fields and harvests, rural scenes and fishing.
For ease of web-browser use, images have been subdivided into 100 item increments based upon photograph identification number.
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Graham (R. Niles) Collection, 1846-1958
 Richard Niles Graham, at a banquet, 1955 Creator: Graham, Richard Niles, 1881-1959
Title: Graham (R. Niles) collection
Dates: 1846-1958
Abstract: The R. Niles Graham collection documents the lives and business interests of Richard Niles Graham and his immediate family. The materials in the collection date from 1846 to 1958, with the bulk of the material dating from 1895 to 1958. The Grahams were prominent members of Texas business and society in Austin in the first part of the 20th century and descended from the state’s 19th century governing aristocracy. The collection sheds light on the family’s history, social activities, interests, and business transactions and consists of personal and inter-family correspondence, family estate papers, and business correspondence and other business records for the Enfield Oil and Petroleum Company and the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company, such as mineral rights leases, title deeds, financial records, maps, and architectural plans. The collection also contains a large cache of memorabilia, ephemera, and printed matter collected by the Graham family over the course of their lives, including scrapbooks, newspapers, magazines, programs, and travel brochures documenting their personal interests. Graham also compiled a large collection of photographs that speak to his interests and document the activities of himself and his family.
The photographs are organized into five groups: People, Places, Subjects, Miscellaneous, and Modern prints. For ease of web-browser use, images have been divided into 100 item increments based upon the photograph identification number.
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William Deming Hornaday Photograph Collection, about 1890-about 1940, undated
 A Woman on Pyramid Steps Creator: Hornaday, W. D., 1868-1942
Title: William Deming Hornaday photograph collection
Dates: about 1890-about 1940, undated
Abstract: This collection consists of photographs, photographic postcards, photoengravings and negatives amassed by William Deming Hornaday (1868-1942) to accompany the various articles written in his capacity as a journalist and Director of Publicity for the University of Texas. The images were created by a variety of photographers, the names of whom are mostly unknown. The photographs depict notable people, places, and events across Texas. The collection also portrays a variety of locations outside the contiguous United States, most notably Mexico, Australia, China, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Fiji, and Hawaii. Subjects covered include agriculture, bridges, cattle, cityscapes, dwellings, factories, harbors, hunting, hydraulic structures, irrigation farming, landscape, military bases and personnel, mineral industries, the petroleum industry, physical geography, politicians, public buildings, railroads, ranches, and the wool industry.
The images are arranged as received, under approximately 283 headings determined by subject matter, location, or format. These headings are ordered alphabetically. The supplementary images are separately arranged under the same system of alphabetical headings as the main collection.
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General John A. Hulen Papers, 1887-1960, undated
 Signal Corps Photo. Boy fishing from bridge with troops, Bayell, France
Creator: Hulen, John A. (John Augustus), 1871-1957
Title: General John A. Hulen papers
Dates: 1887-1960, undated
Abstract: Papers documenting the military career and life of Brigadier General John A. Hulen, who commanded the 72nd Infantry Brigade (1917-1919) and the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard (1922-1935), consist of correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks, dating 1887-1960, undated. The correspondence mainly relates to recruitment activities in 1917 and includes letters and other documents. Photographs cover most of General Hulen’s life, from his years in military school in the late 1880s to his retirement in the 1950s. Photographs from the 36th Division begin with the First World War and extend to 1960 and document military training, camp life, and early airplanes. Also present are aerial photos and official portraits of military personnel in the interwar period. The scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, telegrams, and printed materials that cover the course of General Hulen’s military career, from 1887 to 1948.
The papers are organized according to record type into three series of which the following have been partially digitized: Photographs.
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J.R. Hunnicutt Collection, 1882-1966, undated
 Texas Ranger J. R. Hunnicutt. (about 1919) Creator: Hunnicutt, J.R., 1894-1973
Title: J.R. Hunnicutt collection
Dates: 1882-1966, undated
Abstract: The J.R. Hunnicutt collection primarily documents Hunnicutt’s education and career, especially his service as a Texas Ranger, U.S. Customs Service Agent, and in the U.S. Army Medical Administrative Corps. The collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks of Hunnicutt and his family dating 1882-1966 and undated, bulk 1913-1966. The oldest materials are photographs and papers of Hunnicutt’s family.
The collection is divided into three series; only the photographs series has been digitized. The photographs were originally arranged first by people in alphabetical order than then by place names in alphabetical order. In the original numbering convention, 1966/029-288 thru 547 were left unidentified. These images have now been described and most identified as to person, place, or activity. Several identical images had been given separate numbers and have now been consolidated. For ease of web-browser use, images have been subdivided into 100 item increments based upon photograph identification number.
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Don Kelly Southeast Texas Postcard Collection, about 1898-about 1997
 Beaumont: The Town of Towns postcard Collector: Kelly, Don, 1940-
Title: Don Kelly Southeast Texas postcard collection
Dates: about 1898-about 1997
Abstract: Don Kelly, Southeast Texas community leader, collected 1473 postcards, picture postcards, photographic postcards, and photographs depciting notable scenes of life, locale, and architecture in an area of Southeast Texas surrounding the cities of Orange, Beaumont, and Port Arthur. These three cities comprise the principal subjects of the collection; additional places depicted include the Spindletop Oil Field, Sabine Pass, Sour Lake, the Sabine River, and the Neches River. Dates covered are about 1898 to about 1997, the bulk about 1898 to about 1930. Subjects covered include church buildings, public schools, school buildings, hotels, oil fields, oil wells, oil refineries, restaurants, dwellings, streets, central business districts, parks, city halls, hospitals, post office stations and branches, courthouses, floods, industrial buildings, railroad stations, rivers, waterfronts, mills and mill-work, cargo ships, commercial buildings, the properties of John Warne Gates, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, Texaco, Inc., and the Gulf Oil Corporation.
Materials after 1932 are not available in the TDA due to concerns about copyright.
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Harry Lund photograph collection, 1900-1955, bulk 1900-1930
 Harry Lund photograph collection Collector: Lund, Harry, 1911-1971
Title: Harry Lund photograph collection
Dates: 1900-1955
Dates: bulk 1900-1930
Abstract: The Harry Lund photograph collection consists of commercial views and portraits photographed by the Morales Studio of Brownsville, Texas. Although mostly unidentified and undated, the photographs were taken in Brownsville and Harlingen, Texas; Matamoros, Mexico; and the surrounding Rio Grande Valley area in the early part of the twentieth century. The images primarily reflect aspects of Mexican-American life in the Brownsville area, including family, social, and religious activities such as weddings, funerals, and communions; commerce, agriculture, and railroads; interiors and exteriors of homes and businesses; activities of the Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit organization; and people, fortifications and sites associated with the Mexican Revolution. Photographs date 1900 to 1955, bulk 1900 to 1930.
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Samuel Bell Maxey Photograph Collection, 1870-1960
 S.B. Maxey, Marilda Denton Maxey and Dora Maxey Creator: Maxey, S. B. (Samuel Bell), 1825-1895
Title: Samuel Bell Maxey photograph collection
Dates: 1870-1960
Abstract: This collection consists of approximately 1200 photographic images, dating 1870-1960 (bulk 1870-1920), from the Samuel Bell Maxey House in Paris, Texas. The images, which consist primarily of albumen and silver gelatin prints, include views of the Maxey house (interiors and exteriors) and grounds, and the environs. The Maxey family and friends are represented by commercial portraiture done in various places. Family activities and travels are documented both by commercial views and by amateur snapshots. Included is a suede “Kodack” album and loose album pages picturing travels in the late 1890s. These and later travels ranged from the western U. S. to New York, to the Yukon and Alaska, and to Europe and Egypt.
Image descriptions are from the original envelopes provided by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Digitized images are subdivided into 100 image increments based upon the individual image accession photograph identification number.
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Mexican-American War Lithographs, about 1851
 Capture of Monterey Title: Mexican-American War lithographs
Dates: about 1851
Abstract: These Mexican-American War lithographs are part of the publication The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all principal conflicts, by George Wilkins Kendall, published by Appleton & Co. of New York and Philadelphia. The twelve hand-colored prints are based on paintings created by artist Carl Nebel and were printed and lithographed by Alfred Lemercier and Adolphe Jean Baptiste Bayot around 1851. The images are of battles of the Mexican-American War.
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Tina Q. Odim Photograph Collection, about 1880-1890s, 1905, undated
 Woman Seated with Hat in Lap Collector: Odim, Tina Q.
Title: Tina Q. Odim photograph collection
Dates: about 1880-1890s, 1905, undated
Abstract: The Tina Q. Odim photograph collection includes seven studio portraits of African American men and women dating about 1880-1890s, 1905, undated. These images include portraits taken by Frank E. Beach of Lampasas, Texas, and the Star Gallery in Burnet, Texas. The majority of the images are albumen cabinet card studio portraits of unidentified individuals.
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 Wm. H. Abell People Collection
Collector: various
Title: People Collection
Dates: various
Abstract: Portraits of various men and women important to Texas and United States history. Images include engravings, photoengravings, daguerreotypes, cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, photographs and negatives, dating from the late 19th Century to early 20th Century. The majority of the images are portraits of individuals including Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, Deaf Smith, William Barret Travis, Czar Alexander III, and Jefferson Davis.
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Places Collection
 Home of Major Louis C. Wise Creator: various
Title: Places Collection
Dates: various
Abstract: Photographs of buildings, street scenes, homes, panoramic views, historic sites, monuments and events, and paintings with specific locations, arranged alphabetically according to the city location in the following order: Texas, Texas General, other states, foreign countries, and unidentified locations.
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Fannie Ratchford Photograph Collection, about 1933-1947
 Thomas Jefferson Chambers Home, built in 1838 in Anahuac, Texas Creator: Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth, 1887-1974
Title: Fannie Ratchford photograph collection
Dates: about 1933-1947
Abstract: The Fannie Ratchford photograph collection contains photographic material gathered and created by Ratchford for a project to describe and document architecturally noteworthy Texas houses built in the nineteenth century. The collection includes over 2,500 photographs, nine postcards, seven pencil sketches, and one woodcut, dating from about 1933 to 1947. Apparently lack of funds and time combined to prevent the completion of the projected book, but the images documenting her research are an invaluable resource of the Texas building arts.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by town or county, and alphabetically by the names of the home owners or builders within each town or county division. The last two boxes contain smaller prints of all previous photographs, arranged numerically by the photograph item number.
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1874 Buffalo Hunt Photograph Collection, 1874
 Buffalo camp scene, 1874 Creator: Robertson, George
Title: 1874 Buffalo hunt photograph collection
Dates: 1874
Abstract: George Robertson (? – ?) was an Austin-area photographer employed by studio owner William James Oliphant (1845-1930) to document an 1874 expedition to Buffalo Gap in Taylor County, Texas. The 1874 Buffalo hunt photography collection is composed of 10 photographs taken by Robertson during the trip, plus corresponding film copy media. The subjects depicted include the expedition on the move, camp scenes, buffalo skinning, and the processing of the hides and meat. The date covered is 1874.
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Clyde and Thelma See Glass Plate Negatives Collection, about 1905-about 1920
 Man on horseback with young child Collector: See, Clyde A. (Clyde Alan), 1922-2002
Title: Clyde and Thelma See glass plate negatives collection
Dates: about 1905-about 1920
Abstract: The Clyde and Thelma See glass plate negatives collection consists of 122 glass plate negatives and eight contact prints of Hardin County, Texas, dating about 1905-about 1920. One image was created by Fletcher Photo Company; other creators are unknown. Images are of group portraits, street scenes, and the surrounding area of Saratoga and Batson, Texas. Some of the plates are cracked, broken, or damaged.
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Terry’s Texas Rangers Reunion Panorama, 1908 November 10
 Terry’s Texas Rangers Panorama, partial view Title: Terry’s Texas Rangers reunion panorama
Dates: 1908 November 10
Abstract: The 8th Texas Cavalry, popularly known as Terry’s Texas Rangers, was a group of Texas volunteers for the Confederate States Army assembled by Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry in August 1861. This panorama is a group photographic portrait of the Terry’s Texas Rangers reunion in Houston, Texas on November 10, 1908.
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Horald V. Watson Collection, 1917-1920s, about 1940, 1954, 1957, undated
 Grady Barnhart and four men in Batson, Texas, oilfield Collector: Watson, Horald V., 1901-1977
Title: Horald V. Watson collection
Dates: 1917-1920s, about 1940, 1954, 1957, undated
Abstract: The Horald V. Watson collection includes one set of Daisetta water control records, two prescription sheets from Bell’s Pharmacy and Drugs, an official pocket seal, and photographs of Batson, Hull, Daisetta, and Galveston, Texas, dating 1917-1920s, about 1940, 1954, 1957, undated.
Only photographs from this collection have been digitized and are part of the Texas Digital Archive.
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L.J. Whitmeyer Glass Plate Negatives Collection, about 1890-about 1910
 Group portrait in front of porch Collector: Whitmeyer, Jack, Jr., 1921-2010
Title: L.J. Whitmeyer glass plate negatives collection
Dates: about 1890-about 1910
Abstract: The L.J. Whitmeyer glass plate negatives collection consists of 39 glass plate negatives of Hardin County, Texas, dating about 1890-about 1910. Select images within this collection were created by photographers Hughes and Lane of Batson, Texas. Images are of group portraits, street scenes and the surrounding area of Saratoga and Batson, Texas. Some of the plates are cracked, broken or damaged.
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Owen Wister Photograph Collection, 1893, undated
 Three Riders And Train Of Pack Horses Crossing A River Creator: Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
Title: Owen Wister photograph collection
Dates: 1893, undated
Abstract: Owen Wister (1860-1938) was a prominent American writer during the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is best known for his western stories, particularly his novel The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902). The collection includes 115 images taken by Wister during his trip to Texas in 1893. Dates covered are 1893, undated. Prominent in the collection are Texas ranch scenes from the Savage, Colton and Conover ranches, as well as the San Antonio missions of Concepción de Acuña and San José. Subjects covered include cowboys, horses, polo ponies, polo players and games, stables, architecture, the San Fernando cathedral in San Antonio, towns, residents, and landscape.
The images are arranged alphabetically by place name as identified by the creator, and are subdivided by archival box number.
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